Davey Resource Group, Inc.

Davey Resource Group, Inc., a subsidiary of The Davey Tree Expert Company, is an employee-owned environmental services firm based in Kent, Ohio, that delivers integrated vegetation management, tree removal, arboriculture, pest control, and environmental consulting services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 85% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on specialized environmental remediation and survey work. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designations across all federal work.

Davey Resource Group operates across 16 distinct federal customer agencies but maintains extreme customer concentration in the Department of Agriculture. The USDA accounts for approximately 78% of recent awards by count, with the agency split across three reporting hierarchies: the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions line ($50 million combined potential value on a single $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources BPA), the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service broadly ($44.6 million across 13 awards), and APHIS's Plant Protection and Quarantine division (16 awards, $10.5 million combined potential value). The Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration ranks fourth with 5 awards and $8.3 million combined potential value. Potential-value concentration is extreme: the $50 million USDA Forest Service BPA alone represents 40% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards, while APHIS work across all reporting lines accounts for approximately 54% of total dollars.

The capability portfolio centers on invasive species eradication, particularly Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) containment in South Carolina. Davey Resource Group holds a $16.1 million single-award APHIS IDIQ (contract 12639522D0073, awarded July 7, 2022, completing January 6, 2026) for tree removal, stump grinding, debris disposal, and insecticide application targeting ALB infestations, which has generated 25 task orders totaling $14.9 million in combined potential value—representing the single largest parent vehicle in the award portfolio. More recent ALB work includes a September 28, 2026 delivery order from APHIS for $6.7 million in tree removal services in South Carolina with completion in May 2027, and a September 28, 2026 single-award IDIQ with a $17.4 million ceiling covering tree removal across housing developments, wetlands, and industrial areas within the ALB Quarantine Zone through February 2031. Beyond invasive-species work, representative capability examples include a $3.5 million delivery order from the Western Area Power Administration (issued July 1, 2025, under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule) for Sierra Nevada Region integrated vegetation management and utility forester support services through June 2030, a $253 thousand purchase order from the National Park Service for Pinhook Bog revegetation at Indiana Dunes National Park (awarded September 28, 2026), and a $428 thousand delivery order from USDA for outdoor broadcast spray treatments for noctuid moth control in Chicago and at O'Hare International Airport (awarded April 22, 2026).

Davey Resource Group holds three active federal IDVs: the $16.1 million APHIS single-award IDIQ for ALB tree removal and debris services (through January 2026, generating most task-order volume to date), the $50 million USDA Forest Service Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (awarded July 23, 2024, extending through March 2033), and a $1.5 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (awarded April 20, 2023, through April 2028) covering 29 labor categories spanning GIS technicians, urban foresters, biologists, health and safety officers, and project managers at experience levels from entry to senior principal, with hourly rates ranging from $40.92 for entry-level GIS/IT technicians to $119.65 for senior principal-level positions. The GSA schedule hosts 6 task orders totaling $9.5 million in combined potential value, including the aforementioned Western Area Power Administration utility forester support delivery order. Two additional single-award APHIS IDIQs—one for noctuid moth pest control near O'Hare Airport ($1.3 million, awarded April 14, 2026, through April 2029) and one for insecticide applications ($920 thousand, awarded May 17, 2023, through October 2025)—remain active.

Activity has grown from 6 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2024, with 11 awards in 2025 and 6 through the source cutoff in 2026 (suggesting partial-year reporting). Eight awards with combined potential value of $12.4 million are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure, most significantly the original $16.1 million APHIS ALB IDIQ (completing January 6, 2026) and several task orders under it with ultimate completion dates in 2025 and 2026.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $11.9 million over FY2022–FY2025, with FY2025 invoicing $4.4 million across 6.7 FTEs, FY2024 invoicing $3.1 million across 13.3 FTEs, FY2023 invoicing $3.9 million across 13.0 FTEs, and FY2022 invoicing $569 thousand across 4.5 FTEs. The SCI dataset shows this represents only service contracts above the threshold and excludes goods, products, and non-federal revenue; total enterprise revenue is substantially larger. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $184.80/hr, with 10th percentile at $44.05/hr and 90th percentile at $392.99/hr, reflecting a mix of entry-level field labor and senior technical and managerial roles.

Davey Resource Group operates primarily as a prime contractor but engages subcontractors at scale on field operations. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed an average of 44% of total contractor hours, with 17 named subcontractors reported. Recent sub-award work includes arborist services on Weston Solutions' REGION 6 Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) task orders (awarded July 2024 and modified January 2025 with an additional $24 million), wetland delineation and revegetation services as a subcontractor to Noreas Aptim Environmental Remediation JV on a source area removal contract (awarded May 2024), and environmental consulting services to Weston Solutions on MOB/DEMOB/IVS work (awarded February 2024). The vendor also holds a minor federal grant sub-award footprint: four sub-recipient awards for invasive pest surveys and urban tree canopy assessment work with Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (granted April 2024 and September 2024), Nevada Division of Forestry (granted October 2023), and as a partner-led solutions provider in the Urban Forest Carbon Registry grant (awarded October 2024).

Corporate structure identifies Davey Resource Group as a subsidiary of The Davey Tree Expert Company, with two named co-subsidiaries: Buchanan Consulting Services LLC and Wetland Studies And Solutions, Inc. The parent company's employee-owned status and subsidiary operational model position the group as a specialized federal provider in arboriculture, environmental consulting, and land management, with competitive advantage rooted in technical expertise in invasive species mitigation and ecosystem restoration rather than set-aside contracting posture.