Express Forestry Service, LLC

Express Forestry Service, LLC Home Division, a veteran-owned small business based in Leslie, Arkansas, operates as a prime contractor delivering tree planting, vegetation management, hazardous fuels reduction, and natural resource restoration services to federal land management agencies under set-aside and full-and-open competition. The company competes predominantly under small business set-asides, with total small business designations appearing across approximately 60% of recent prime awards; the remainder are full-and-open or no-set-aside work.

The company's capability portfolio centers on hand and mechanical forestry operations across national forests, wildlife refuges, and other federally managed lands. Representative work includes containerized and bareroot tree planting (pine, longleaf pine, hardwood species) across multiple acreages; timber stand improvement and precommercial thinning; hazardous fuels reduction and mechanical vegetation treatment; seedling nursery operations (lift and pack, greenhouse rouging, thinning); boundary line maintenance; and invasive species control. Recent examples include a $62.5 thousand BPA call (November 2026) from the Forest Service for tree planting of 1,046 acres of containerized pine seedlings at Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana; a $498 thousand BPA call (May 2026) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wildland fire and fuels break work at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma; a $430.5 thousand definitive contract (March 2024) with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for nursery lift and pack services at Bessey Nursery, Nebraska, spanning base year and two option years through February 2027; and a $302.4 thousand delivery order (March 2023) from the Army Corps of Engineers for boundary line maintenance services.

Customer concentration sits decisively with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which accounts for approximately 84% of awards by count and 95% of combined potential value. The Forest Service Southern Region (R8) leads with 136 awards valued at $61.5 million combined potential value, followed by the Eastern Region (R9) with 120 awards valued at $27.7 million. The Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions carries a single $50 million award — the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) — which anchors the vendor's potential value footprint and represents a multi-year vehicle for task orders across all nine Forest Service regions. The Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region account for the remainder of active federal customer relationships. This concentration reflects Express Forestry's specialization in forestry-specific work for civilian land management agencies rather than defense or non-natural-resources federal work.

Express Forestry holds ten active prime IDVs and BPAs with combined ceiling values exceeding $100 million. The largest is the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded May 2025 by the Forest Service Acquisitions office, which generates task orders across multiple regions for professional services and natural resources restoration. Region 8 (Southern Region) vehicles anchor $17.5 million in combined ceiling value across a $10 million vegetation management BPA for Mississippi national forests (single award through July 2028), a $7.5 million Kisatchie National Forest vegetation management BPA (single award through November 2027), and a $5 million Ozark-St. Francis National Forest vegetation management IDC (single award through October 2026). Region 9 (Eastern Region) carries a $4.7 million Mark Twain National Forest vegetation management IDC (single award through September 2026), a $3 million Chequamegon-Nicolet and Ottawa National Forests timber stand improvement BPA (multiple award through October 2028), and a $3 million Hiawatha and Huron-Manistee National Forests tree planting IDIQ (multiple award through May 2030). Place of performance spans national forests across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.

Activity has remained steady and consistent. The vendor received 31 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, declining to 16 in 2024, rebounding to 23 in 2025, and settling at 16 through November 2026 year to date. Combined potential value across 366 prime awards totals $152.9 million, with $20 million (13%) obligated as of the source date. Eleven awards (combined potential value $1.5 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore represent recompete exposure. The company has maintained a continuous federal contracting footprint since September 2011.

Express Forestry operates exclusively as a prime contractor on the federal side; the source reports zero sub-award activity. The vendor's footprint is characterized by small-dollar, task-order-driven work under standing BPAs and IDIQs with the Forest Service and allied agencies, rather than large fixed-price definitive contracts. NAICS code 115112 (Support Activities for Forestry) dominates the award count (254 awards), followed by 115310 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) with 83 awards. PSC codes reflect the same natural-resources-restoration framing: 111 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation–Other Forest/Range Improvements, 89 under Forest Tree Planting, 30 under Tree Thinning, and the remainder scattered across land treatment and conservation categories.