Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen, doing business as Mark Hansen Contracting, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that provides vegetation thinning and fuel reduction services through federal contracts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The firm operates as a sole proprietorship based in Bend, Oregon.

Through prime contract awards from the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region, Mark Hansen Contracting has performed wildfire risk reduction and forest restoration activities including pre-commercial thinning, hand and grapple piling, mastication, subsoiling, and tree planting. Recent contracts have been set aside for small businesses and awarded as firm-fixed price agreements with the agency's Central Oregon Restoration Project program. Specific projects Mark Hansen Contracting has completed include the Thor Mastication/Fuel Reductions Project and McKay Grapple Piling services, involving vegetation management aimed at improving forest health and reducing hazardous fuels that could promote catastrophic wildfires.

Mark Hansen Contracting is a multiple award holder on the Forest Service's Central Oregon Restoration Project Blanket Purchase Agreement, an indefinite-delivery vehicle providing restoration services across National Forests in central Oregon. Under this BPA, the firm received a $159,570 call to conduct mastication and fuel reduction work in Bend through November 2023. The BPA seeks to improve ecosystem resiliency and productivity through a range of vegetation removal activities designed to mitigate threats like hazardous fuels, insects, disease, and invasive species while supporting endangered species habitat recovery. Task orders issued against this multiple-award vehicle enable the Forest Service to procure services aligned with its broader central Oregon forest restoration objectives.