Great Southern Forestry LLC

Great Southern Forestry LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Tallahassee, Florida, delivers forestry and ecological restoration services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company is a sole proprietorship structured as a limited liability company competing 100% as a prime, with no subcontract exposure, across 33 awards totaling $27.4 million in combined potential value since 2017.

Great Southern Forestry's customer base is entirely concentrated within the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 26 awards worth $27 million in combined potential value (98% of all activity), with the broader Forest Service accounting for the remaining 2% across Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) and unspecified Forest Service entities. This customer concentration is absolute — no other federal agencies appear in the portfolio.

The company holds two active BPAs with the Forest Service Southern Region anchoring its work pipeline. The $10 million reforestation and non-native invasive species control BPA (awarded August 29, 2022, through August 31, 2027) and the $9.999 million timber support services BPA (awarded May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028) together serve as the parent vehicles for task orders across Florida and West Virginia national forests. Call orders under these vehicles span mechanical site preparation, longleaf pine seedling hand planting, fuels reduction mulching, wildland urban interface restoration, roller chopping, stand examinations, timber cruising, boundary designation, and tree marking. Representative recent work includes a $99,517.66 call for FY25 sand pine seeding on 2,927 acres at Umatilla, Florida (awarded September 2, 2025; completion January 31, 2026), a $148,482.25 call for mechanical site preparation roller chopping in Pineville, West Virginia (awarded September 2, 2024; completed June 2, 2025), a $28,702.50 call for Helen Light Cruising Timber Sale Prep in Crawfordville, Florida (awarded September 15, 2025; completion December 21, 2025), and a $16,695 call for tree planting services at Rock Creek in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest near Gainsville, Georgia (awarded February 19, 2026; completion March 17, 2026).

Activity peaked in 2023 with nine awards but has declined sharply — two awards in 2025 and one in 2026. Combined dollars obligated to date total $2.4 million, representing 9% of the $27.4 million combined potential value ceiling, indicating substantial unexercised capacity across active vehicles. Work is performed across multiple national forests in the Southern Region, spanning Florida (Ocala, Osceola, Apalachicola, and others) and West Virginia locations. The company's capability profile is singular and specialized: mechanized and hand-labor forestry operations supporting land stewardship, reforestation, invasive species removal, and timber management for federal conservation programs.