Grano Reforestation Inc.

Grano Reforestation Inc., a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business based in Waldron, Arkansas, delivers specialized forestry and vegetation management services as a prime contractor to the USDA Forest Service across the Southern Region, operating predominantly under set-asides on a $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement and a $5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract, both of which it holds as the sole awardee.

Grano Reforestation's capability footprint centers on precommercial thinning, chemical and manual vegetation control via foliar and cut-surface applications, site preparation, tree planting (pine containerized and hardwood bareroot species), midstory removal and reduction for wildlife habitat, hazardous fuels reduction through mechanical mulching and mastication, and wildlife habitat improvement across national forest lands. Representative recent work includes a $178,504 firm fixed-price delivery order for precommercial thinning services in Hector, Arkansas (awarded July 14, 2024, under the $5 million IDC); a $160,604 order for vegetation management and wildlife habitat improvement on the Sylamore Ranger District (awarded May 16, 2024); and a $128,960 delivery order for NNIS restoration work in the Ozarks Highlands (awarded June 29, 2026, under the $7.5 million BPA, total small business set-aside). Work spans multiple ranger districts and performance locations across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.

Customer concentration is acute: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 306 of 380 tracked awards (86% of award count) and $31.5 million of combined potential value, with the broader Department of Agriculture Forest Service adding 38 awards and $1 million. The remaining tracked awards include work with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (34 awards, with no dollar value disclosed in the source). Grano Reforestation operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract work in the source data.

The two primary parent vehicles are the $7.5 million BPA awarded March 7, 2023 (ultimate completion date February 28, 2028), designated without set-aside restrictions at the agreement level but with individual task orders frequently carried as total small business set-asides, and the $5 million IDC awarded November 1, 2021 (ultimate completion date October 31, 2026), designated as a total small business set-aside. Both are single-award vehicles held exclusively by Grano Reforestation. Task orders under these vehicles range from approximately $4,600 to $178,500 and have been issued consistently across 2023 through 2026, with firm fixed-price pricing. A significant secondary tranche of work runs under older USDA Forest Service Southern Region indefinite delivery contracts, including AG447UC090005 (55 task orders, $1.3 million combined value), Ozark-St. Francis NF Vegetative Management 2017 (55 task orders, $2.2 million), and AG447UC077006 (42 task orders, $2.1 million), indicating a multi-decade relationship with the agency.

Activity shows a declining trajectory: 21 awards in 2022, declining to 5 awards in the first half of 2026. Eight awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $598 thousand, representing moderate recompete exposure. Grano Reforestation's service delivery concentration is narrow: NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry) accounts for 410 of 442 tracked awards, and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes—particularly Non-Construction Forest/Range Improvements (266 awards) and Wildlife Management (53 awards)—dominate the portfolio. The vendor's federal footprint is built on single-agency, single-region reliance and represents a specialized, geographically bound forestry operations capability with limited diversification across customer or service lines.

Reforestation, pruning, thinning, planting, unevenage management, pesticide application