Garcia Forest Service LLC

Garcia Forest Service LLC, a Hispanic American-owned and minority-owned small business based in Rockingham, North Carolina, is a prime contractor specializing in vegetation management, reforestation, and ecosystem restoration services for federal land management agencies across the southeastern United States, operating exclusively on total small business set-aside contracts and unrestricted procurements.

Garcia competes primarily as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and does not engage subcontractors. The company's footprint centers on forest stewardship work: pre-commercial thinning, tree planting, herbicide site preparation and invasive species control, mechanical fuel reduction, and wildlife habitat protection. Representative work includes a $249,920 BPA call from USDA Forest Service Region 8 (awarded September 1, 2026) for hand-cutting hardwood trees and brush on the Apalachicola National Forest's Longleaf Pine Habitat project in Florida; a $1.095 million purchase order from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (awarded August 7, 2023) for establishing fire breaks at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina, extended to January 31, 2026 due to equipment issues and weather; and a $221,803 BPA call from Forest Service Region 8 (awarded April 24, 2023) for pre-commercial thinning of 1,168 acres on the Long Cane Ranger District in South Carolina.

Customer concentration is severe. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) dominates both award count and dollars, accounting for 124 awards and $46.6 million of the $73.5 million combined potential value across all 411 prime awards. This represents 56% of award count and 63% of combined potential value from the top five customers. The Marine Corps and Navy together account for 74 awards ($7.9 million) — the second-largest customer concentration — but derive from a separate, older contract portfolio. Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, and Forest Service Washington Office Economic Recovery Operations Center East collectively add $4 million. The top five customers represent 80% of combined potential value.

Garcia holds three single-award BPAs with Forest Service Region 8. The largest is a $10 million single-award BPA for mechanical fuel reduction services in Florida (awarded August 29, 2022; completion August 31, 2027). A second $10 million single-award BPA for North Carolina vegetation management services began May 31, 2022 (completion May 31, 2027); and a $7 million single-award BPA for wildlife and forest projects across national forests in South Carolina and North Carolina and the Savannah River Site was awarded September 1, 2023 (completion August 31, 2028). Below these, Garcia issues task orders against five additional Forest Service and regional IDVs carrying ceilings from $664 thousand to $1.6 million. The Indefinite Delivery Contract N6247000D5001 (an undisclosed parent vehicle) carries 39 task orders, suggesting a Marine Corps or Navy-specific framework distinct from the Forest Service BPA portfolio.

Activity has been stable but light. Awards per year have remained modest in the past five years (8 in 2022, 10 in 2023, declining to 4 each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 year-to-date), despite 411 total awards in the source spanning back to 1996. This trajectory reflects a mature contractor with steady task-order flow rather than growth. The recompete cliff is minimal — only two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $299 thousand).

Service Contract Inventory data are sparse and present no invoiced federal service revenue for FY2023–FY2025, consistent with Garcia's work profile: most awards are goods-and-labor task orders on small forest-stewardship work falling below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or classified as goods rather than services. The one FY2025 SCI record shows 1.0 FTE delivered on a prime contract, indicating minimal visibility in the SCI dataset.

Garcia's award portfolio concentrates on two NAICS categories: 277 awards under Support Activities for Forestry and 71 under Landscaping Services. Top PSC codes align: 112 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation–Other, 78 under Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping, 56 under Forest Tree Planting, and 44 under Land Treatment Practices. This narrowness reflects a specialized, mission-critical niche: vegetation management on federal lands in the Southeast, particularly for fire break establishment, habitat restoration, and invasive species control on national forests and wildlife refuges.

Tree Planting, seeding, chemical applications, horticulture, pine harvesting, brush cutting, grounds maintenance,Fuel Reduction,Debris Removal from canales & rivers,Bank Stabilization,and Roofing