George Ellinger

George Ellinger, doing business as Ellinger Logging, a sole proprietorship based in Alamogordo, New Mexico, performs forest stewardship, integrated resource management, and tree-thinning work for the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. Work is concentrated in the Southwest Region (Region 3) covering Lincoln National Forest and adjacent areas in Arizona and New Mexico.

Ellinger Logging holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA 12363N23A4115) with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern Region, awarded December 2, 2022, with a $50 million ceiling running through December 5, 2032. The BPA funds stewardship and integrated resource services across Lincoln National Forest regions; Ellinger Logging has issued two task orders against this vehicle totaling $593 thousand in combined potential value. Representative work includes a $315,600 firm fixed-price BPA call (awarded July 28, 2023, completing February 19, 2025) for the Jeffers Stewardship project under the Jim Lewis NEPA project area in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and a $276,920 total small business set-aside BPA call (awarded September 15, 2026, completing February 28, 2029) for Round 1 Stewardship activities at Lincoln National Forest's Sacramento Ranger District, which applied $8,080 in forest product value against appropriated funds.

The vendor's customer base is concentrated on the Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern Region, accounting for five awards and $50.7 million in combined potential value (88% of recent awards). Ellinger Logging operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); it does not subcontract or appear as a subcontractor to other primes. Award volume is episodic — one award each in 2010, 2014, 2022, 2023, and 2026 — with eight total awards on record since 2000 and only $1.2 million obligated against the $50.7 million combined potential value, indicating a significant pipeline of future work on the BPA.