Grayback Forestry, Inc.

Grayback Forestry, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Merlin, Oregon, delivers wildland fire suppression, hazardous fuels reduction, prescribed burning, vegetation management, and incident response support to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements.

The company operates across 2,666 prime federal awards totaling $1.2 billion in combined potential value since 1990, with $350.5 million obligated. Recent activity shows 178 awards in 2026 (year to date), 169 in 2025, and 193 in 2024, representing relatively flat volume after peaks of 218 and 222 in 2022 and 2023. Grayback Forestry works directly as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint; it performs work itself rather than routing work through other primes.

The customer concentration is geographically and programmatically concentrated in wildland management. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) leads by award count at 1,086 awards valued at $185.3 million combined potential value, followed by the unallocated Department of Agriculture Forest Service stream (255 awards, $41.5 million) and the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (145 awards, $132.9 million). The BLM National Office carries the largest single potential value at $405 million across just 19 awards, signaling that high-value indefinite delivery contracts sit there; the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds 138 awards valued at $162.5 million. Together, the top five funding agencies represent 79% of combined potential value. By contract count, the five top agencies represent 72% of all awards.

The largest parent vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC22T2305, which has generated 529 task orders carrying $68.3 million in combined potential value—anchoring Grayback's delivery order pipeline. The second-largest is IDC 1202SB22T7822 with 170 task orders and $8.7 million; the third is Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04H1B167233 with 140 task orders and $3.7 million. Recent awards show Grayback holds a $50 million ceiling Blanket Purchase Agreement with USDA Forest Service for Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) services nationwide, awarded June 25, 2026, as well as multiple indefinite-delivery contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling equipment ($500,000 ceilings for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, 9 and Region 6 Pacific Northwest, both through May 2029-2030), potable and gray water truck and handwashing stations (Region 6, $500,000, through May 2029), chipper equipment (Regions 5 and 6, $500,000, through May 2029), and heavy equipment with water capability (West Zone Regions 3, 5, 6, $500,000, through May-June 2030).

Representative prime work includes a $1.48 million delivery order from the Forest Service Idaho Region for hazardous fuels reduction FY26 under the Medford Fuels IDIQ (ultimate completion March 31, 2029), a $143,500 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 for prescribed fire modules with five-person crews, engines, and water tenders for Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest (awarded September 30, 2026, completion October 1, 2028), a $289,000 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 for prescribed burn support at Rogue River-Siskiyou (awarded April 20, 2026, completion October 31, 2028), and a $1.71 million delivery order from Forest Service Idaho Region for hazardous fuels reduction FY26-FY28 in Medford, Oregon (awarded March 11, 2026, completion December 30, 2027). Work performed spans performance locations across western national forests and public lands in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Nebraska, and dispatch-as-needed to eastern regions including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia.

The category concentration aligns tightly with Grayback's service offering: 2,300 of 2,300 awards map to NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry); top PSCs are Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (1,773 awards), Natural Resources/Conservation—Tree Thinning (330 awards), and Natural Resources/Conservation—Land Treatment Practices (240 awards). Grayback competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides, with a small number of non-set-aside deliveries visible in recent months (October 2025 and September 2025 awards), signaling occasional competitive participation beyond set-aside vehicles. Eighteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $6.4 million and representing modest recompete exposure in that window. The company's multi-region presence, large parent vehicle portfolio, and $1.19 billion lifetime footprint position it as a dominant regional and national prime in wildland fire suppression and hazardous fuels reduction for federal land managers, with minimal dependency on any single contract vehicle and no subcontractor network.

Grayback Forestry Inc. has had over 30 years of experence in fuels management, planting, reforestation, and wildland fire fighting.