Idaho Department Of Lands

The Idaho Department of Lands, Boise Main Office Division (doing business as Administration Services), is a state government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient delivering forest management, wildfire mitigation, and land conservation services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of the Interior. The division operates as a child entity of the State of Idaho and competes exclusively in full-and-open federal grant awards with no set-aside designation across its recent footprint.

The division's capability portfolio centers on hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention and suppression, forest restoration, conservation easement acquisition and administration, forest stewardship technical assistance to private landowners, and interagency coordination on federal and non-federal forest lands. Recent representative work includes a $53.3 million Inflation Reduction Act Forest Legacy Program award (CFDA 10.734) for the Stimson Timberland Legacy Project, a $17.3 million Inflation Reduction Act Forest Legacy award for the Spirit of Spokane Conservation Project Phase 1, a $14 million Forest Legacy Program award for the Selkirk Water and Wildlife Project, and an $8.36 million Cooperative Forestry Assistance award (CFDA 10.664) for comprehensive forest management and wildfire mitigation across Idaho's non-federal lands. The division also holds a $2.9 million cooperative agreement under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 10.691) authorizing forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration on National Forest System lands, and a $1.045 million Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Cooperative Agreement for integrated vegetation restoration.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates the award footprint: the Forest Service R1-Northern Region alone accounts for 74 awards, the broader Forest Service organization adds 65 awards, and the Forest Service R4-Intermountain Region and Rocky Mountain Research Station together add 23 awards, collectively representing the vast majority of the 193 total awards in the recent portfolio. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region has placed 7 awards. This concentration reflects the division's role as Idaho's official state forestry agency executing federally funded landscape-scale restoration and wildfire mitigation under cooperative agreements and grants administered by Forest Service regions.

Activity across the past five years shows moderate volatility: 10 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, declining to 13 in 2024, flat at 13 in 2025, and 8 through mid-2026. Twenty-two awards carrying combined potential value approaching recompete face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing turnover opportunity for competing vendors or recompete risk for the division. The combined potential value across all 193 awards totals $481 thousand in recorded potential value, though obligated dollars of $432.7 million indicate the source data captures only a portion of the division's historical grant ceiling values — typical of state agency reporting where cooperative agreements and multi-year project grants carry substantial unreported ceilings.

The division acts exclusively as a prime recipient; no subcontract footprint is present in the award data. Work is performed statewide across Idaho, with administrative oversight at the Boise Main Office. The division's federal grant portfolio operates under CFDA programs 10.664 (Cooperative Forestry Assistance), 10.676 (Forest Legacy Program), 10.691 (Good Neighbor Authority), 10.697 (State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction), 10.698 (State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance), 10.717 (IIJA Restoration/Revegetation), 10.718 (IIJA Capital Maintenance and Improvement), 10.720 (Community Wildfire Defense Grants), 10.727 (Urban & Community Forestry), 10.731 (Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration), and 10.734 (Inflation Reduction Act Forest Legacy), reflecting deep integration into federal forest stewardship and wildfire mitigation funding streams.