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 to the federal government as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition, with 100% of its award footprint as a prime (no subcontract activity). The company operates exclusively within NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry) and holds two significant indefinite delivery vehicles with the USDA Forest Service Southern Region: a $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded March 7, 2023, and a $5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded November 1, 2021, both as single-award vehicles.

Grano Reforestation's customer base is heavily concentrated with a single federal customer: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 312 of 390 tracked awards (86% of the award count tracked in the vendor portfolio) and $31.8 million of combined potential value—the dominant driver of the company's $104.8 million combined potential value across all 452 awards in the source. The Forest Service general accounts for 42 additional awards and $1.2 million. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission accounts for 34 awards with unspecified dollar value. This extreme customer concentration reflects Grano Reforestation's established role as a strategic, sole-source forestry partner for the Southern Region.

Concrete capability work spans precommercial thinning (reducing stem density on forest lands, frequently 1,600+ stems per acre), chemical and manual vegetation release and control via foliar spray and cut-surface herbicide application, site preparation (both mechanical and manual), tree planting (pine containerized and hardwood bareroot species), midstory reduction and removal for wildlife habitat improvement, hazardous fuels reduction through scatter dozer vegetation management and mechanical mastication, and wildlife non-structural habitat improvement. Recent representative awards include a $178,504 firm fixed-price delivery order for precommercial thinning in Hector, Arkansas (July 2024), a $160,604 delivery order for vegetation management and wildlife habitat improvement on the Sylamore Ranger District (May 2024), a $131,376 BPA call for release cut-surface and foliar spray services on the Jessieville Ranger District (June 2023), and a $128,960 delivery order for NNIS restoration work in the Ozarks Highlands (June 2026). Individual task orders under the parent IDVs range from approximately $4,600 to $178,500, with work performed across multiple ranger districts including Cold Springs, Pleasant Hill, Sylamore, Boston Mountain, and Jessieville in Arkansas, as well as performance locations in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.

Grano Reforestation's activity trajectory shows modest fluctuation—21 awards in 2022, declining to nine in 2024, recovering to 15 in 2026 (as of mid-October). Within the next twenty-four months, 16 awards carry combined potential value of $976 thousand and face ultimate completion, representing recompete exposure for the vendor. The top five parent vehicles by task order count include the Indefinite Delivery Contract AG447UC090005 (55 task orders, $1.3 million), the Ozark-St. Francis NF Vegetative Management 2017 vehicle (55 task orders, $2.2 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract 127A8619D0010 (47 task orders, $1.9 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract AG447UC077006 (42 task orders, $2.1 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract AG447UC120021 (42 task orders, $958 thousand). Of combined potential value tracked across all awards, only 15% has been obligated (obligated total of $16 million against $104.8 million potential), indicating substantial ceiling availability and ongoing execution runway across the parent vehicles.

Grano Reforestation competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on the $5 million IDC, while task orders under the $7.5 million BPA are issued under both total small business set-asides and full-and-open (no set-aside) designations. The company operates as a prime only; no subcontract footprint is present in the source material. Work is performed on national forest lands across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, with administrative oversight rooted in the Forest Service Region 8 office structure.

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