Forecon Inc.

Forecon Inc., a small business prime contractor based in Falconer, New York, delivers forest health treatments, invasive species mitigation, and natural resources management services exclusively to the Department of Agriculture across 101 federal awards totaling $83.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides — the designation appears on approximately 42% of recent delivery orders and purchase orders — and operates as a pure prime, with no subcontract footprint.

The company's capability portfolio centers on insecticide treatments protecting eastern hemlock and other forest stands from hemlock woolly adelgid and emerald ash borer infestations, herbicide applications for understory vegetation and invasive species control using backpack and mist blower spray equipment, stem injection treatments via cut-and-frill and hack-and-squirt methodologies, and forest plot sampling and common stand examination services. Representative work includes a $132.4 million BPA covering land management integrated resources services nationwide (awarded July 30, 2026, running through March 2033), a $350,000 single-award IDIQ for HWA insecticide treatments on the Allegheny National Forest (awarded September 1, 2026, through December 2030), a $500,000 single-award IDIQ for HWA treatment in the Finger Lakes National Forest (awarded May 5, 2022, extended through April 2027), and a $57.9 thousand BPA call for hemlock woolly adelgid treatment at Sawmill Creek and Mill Creek (awarded September 23, 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme: 91% of awards (75 of 101) flow from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9-Eastern Region, generating $6.5 million in combined potential value, while the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service accounts for eight awards totaling $5.6 million. However, the top-customer ranking by potential value is anchored entirely by a single $50 million BPA vehicle held through the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions office. The Forest Service R9-Eastern Region and APHIS together account for approximately 75% of combined potential value across the portfolio.

Work is performed primarily across Pennsylvania and New York, concentrated in Warren, Forest, McKean, and Elk Counties on the Allegheny National Forest and in Hector, New York on the Finger Lakes National Forest, with administrative oversight typically at Marienville, Pennsylvania. The vendor holds five active IDIQs generating the bulk of task orders: Indefinite Delivery Contract AG24H8C150002 (9 task orders, $149 thousand), IDC 1224H819D0002 (8 task orders, $630 thousand), IDC AG24H8C150006 (8 task orders, $195 thousand), BPA AG2D37B110001 (7 task orders, $180 thousand), and IDC 12444321D0004 (5 task orders, $190 thousand). Activity has been light and flat over the past five years — four or five awards annually in 2022–2024, one in 2025, four in 2026 — with only two awards ($111 thousand combined) facing completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor has worked with USDA Forest Service Region 9-Eastern Region continuously since at least 2002.

FORECON is a multi-disciplinary natural resources consulting firm specializing in a variety of forestry, biological, and ecosystems services offerings