Forestry Suppliers Inc.

Forestry Suppliers Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, operates as a federal prime contractor supplying field equipment, instrumentation, and specialized gear to civilian and defense agencies on a full-and-open basis — no recent awards carry set-aside designations. The vendor competes across 115 distinct federal customer agencies with 807 awards on record since 1989, but activity has contracted sharply; after placing multiple awards annually through the early 2020s, the vendor received only one award in 2024 and one in 2026, suggesting either a decline in federal procurement appetite or a shift in competitive positioning.

Forestry Suppliers' capability portfolio centers on mail-order distribution of field equipment and instrumentation. The vendor's top NAICS categories reflect this spread: Mail-Order Houses (152 awards), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (142 awards), Sign Manufacturing (93 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (41 awards), and Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (33 awards). PSC codes confirm a multi-category equipment profile: Signs, Advertising Displays and Identification Plates (106 awards); Navigational Instruments (101 awards); Liquid and Gas Flow, Liquid Level, and Mechanical Motion Measuring Instruments (56 awards); Fire Fighting Equipment (52 awards); and Drafting, Surveying, and Mapping Instruments (50 awards). Representative work includes a $18.4 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (awarded September 2023) for a Garmin Map67 GPS unit to support operations at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam; a $6.5 thousand purchase order from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region (awarded August 2024) for eight GPS units to support the Branch of Fire Management; and a $9 thousand forestry supplies award from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Alaska Region Soil Survey Office (awarded September 2021).

Customer concentration spans Army (68 awards, $207 thousand combined potential value) and the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (59 awards, $838 thousand combined potential value), which dominates the potential-value ranking despite placing fewer orders than Army. The Department of Defense, USDA Forest Service regions (Pacific Northwest and Southern regions leading), and the Defense Logistics Agency round out the agency footprint. The vendor places task orders under five GSA Indefinite Delivery Contracts: GS07FP0017 (56 task orders, $749 thousand), GS07FV9297 (48 task orders, $596 thousand), GS07FP0016 (30 task orders, $895 thousand), GS07FFORSQ (9 task orders), and SP044003D0559 (5 task orders, $283 thousand). Combined potential value across all 807 awards is $7.6 million, with $6.9 million obligated. The vendor operates as a prime on all recent awards and carries no subcontract relationships in the source data.