Great Southern Forestry LLC

Great Southern Forestry LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and sole proprietor structured as an LLC based in Tallahassee, Florida, provides mechanical site preparation, reforestation, timber support, and invasive species control services to the USDA Forest Service exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor competes 100% under small business set-asides across its entire prime footprint, with all 37 awards held as prime contracts or IDVs and zero subcontract exposure.

Great Southern Forestry's capability portfolio centers on specialized forestry and land management operations: mechanical site preparation via roller chopping and brush cutting; longleaf pine and sand pine hand planting and seeding across multiple acres; timber sale preparation, cruising, and stand examination; wildland urban interface mulching; and fuels reduction and habitat improvement through mechanical treatment. Representative work includes a $99,517.66 call for FY25 sand pine seeding on 2,927 acres at Ocala National Forest in Florida (awarded September 2, 2025, under the reforestation BPA), a $148,482.25 call for mechanical roller chopping site preparation on 21 acres in Pineville, West Virginia (awarded September 2, 2024), and a $28,702.50 call for timber sale preparation at Helen Light in Crawfordville, Florida (awarded September 15, 2025).

Customer concentration is absolute: all 37 awards come from the USDA Forest Service across four regional designations. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 29 awards valued at $27.4 million combined potential value; the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions holds one award at $50 million (the newly awarded Land Management Integrated Resources BPA); and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) and the Forest Service central office together account for $417 thousand combined potential value. This concentration reflects the vendor's specialization in Forest Service land management contracts in the Southeast and multi-regional forestry operations.

Great Southern Forestry holds three active parent BPAs with the Forest Service. The $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA was awarded July 13, 2026, with completion through March 6, 2033, and carries 9 percent utilization ($2.4 million obligated to date); recent calls under this vehicle total $276,000 across three task orders. The $10 million Florida Reforestation/Non-Native Invasive Species Control BPA, awarded August 29, 2022, through August 31, 2027, has generated 13 task orders valued at $887 thousand combined potential value, covering mechanical site preparation, sand pine seeding, mowing release, and habitat improvement across Florida and West Virginia national forests. The $9.999 million Florida Timber Support BPA, awarded May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028, has issued 12 task orders valued at $1.5 million combined potential value for stand examinations, timber cruising, boundary designation, and tree marking. Across all three vehicles, Great Southern Forestry competes under total small business set-aside designations on firm fixed-price task orders ranging from $6,480 to $249,865.

Activity has been uneven across the past five years—three awards in 2022, nine in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and five in 2026 to date—with the July 2026 LMIR BPA award introducing a multi-year revenue engine at $50 million ceiling. Only three awards (combined potential value $387 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting recompete exposure in the near term. The $2.8 million obligated across $77.8 million combined potential value (4% utilization) reflects the vendor's early position on newly awarded vehicles and the task-order-based delivery model characteristic of Forest Service BPAs. Combined dollars obligated remain modest relative to ceiling, indicating the vendor is in the early phases of task-order execution across both the reforestation and timber support vehicles and the newly awarded LMIR BPA.