Gossco, LLC

Gossco, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in La Grande, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor delivering forestry and natural resource management services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service under small-business set-asides and competitive procurement. The company specializes in hazardous tree removal, vegetation management, heavy equipment provision for wildland fire suppression, and post-wildfire remediation across Pacific Northwest national forests and interagency fire response in Region 6.

Gossco's customer footprint is concentrated entirely within the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) dominates the portfolio at 18 awards carrying $63.5 million in combined potential value, supplemented by four awards from the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center valued at $1.5 million and one additional Forest Service award for $40 thousand. Across recent activity, 20 awards fall under NAICS 541700 (Support Activities for Forestry), with the remainder split between equipment rental (2 awards) and logging operations (1 award). Work breaks down by PSC into natural resources/conservation–forest-range fire suppression and presuppression (12 awards) and tree thinning (6 awards), reflecting Gossco's core positioning around post-wildfire hazard mitigation and vegetation management.

The company holds a $50 million single-award Pacific Northwest Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement with Region 6 through October 2032, which has generated 4 task orders valued at $4.1 million to date for vegetation management, reforestation, infrastructure maintenance, and fire prevention. Gossco also holds three Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center totaling $1 million in ceiling value (through multiple-award procurement of heavy equipment for wildland fire suppression and prescribed project work in Region 6), under which one task order has been issued for $145 thousand. Representative recent delivery orders from Region 6 include a $272.8 million firm fixed-price contract for hazardous tree removal and mitigation (awarded July 25, 2024), a $235.6 million order for tree felling, processing, and decking (July 28, 2024), and a $145.2 million small-business set-aside delivery order for hazardous tree removal in Sandy, Oregon (August 25, 2026). Prior year work included a $1.73 million BPA call for Middle Fork Complex danger/hazard tree mitigation (July 2022, set-aside for total small business) and a $709 thousand BPA call for roadside tree removal and processing in Sandy, Oregon (May 2022, total small business set-aside).

Activity accelerated notably in 2024, which saw 11 of the 23 awards in the portfolio; prior years show 2 awards in 2022, 1 in 2023, and 1 in 2025, with 3 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $65.1 million against $5.9 million in obligated dollars (9% utilization). The source notes that to date over $3 million has been obligated to Gossco through one of the indefinite delivery vehicles specifically for hazardous tree removal following the 2020 Oregon wildfires. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal services contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $2.4 million in FY2022 and $1.7 million in FY2023, with workforce scaling of approximately 5.7 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 5.0 FTEs in FY2023 on those recorded contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI records ranged from $167.86 per hour at the 10th percentile to a median of $191.23 per hour and $232.69 per hour at the 90th percentile. Gossco operates as a 100% prime contractor across its federal footprint with no subcontract activity reported in the source data.