Invasive Plant Control, Inc.

Invasive Plant Control, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Nashville, Tennessee, provides mechanical and chemical invasive plant removal, habitat restoration, herbicide application, and vegetation management services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards), competing predominantly under small business set-asides on task orders issued against Multiple Award Schedule vehicles and agency-specific BPAs.

The company's capability portfolio centers on invasive species treatment across national forests, wildlife refuges, national parks, and military installations. Representative work includes a $119,997 BPA call from the U.S. Forest Service for herbicide treatment of non-native invasive plants on the Clinch Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest in Wise, Virginia (awarded July 2026, completion July 2027); a $235,120 delivery order from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 for hazardous fuels reduction and tamarisk control at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Perry, Utah (awarded August 2024, extending through March 2028); and an $80,754 purchase order from the National Park Service Northeast Region for invasive plant treatment across approximately 66 acres at New River Gorge National Park and Bluestone National Scenic River in West Virginia, treating Japanese knotweed, tree-of-heaven, autumn-olive, and Japanese hops (awarded August 2024, completion January 2026). GSA Schedule labor rates span $84.40 to $115.09 per hour for crew-member and crew-leader roles, both requiring bachelor's degrees and no security clearance.

Customer concentration reflects a strong regional focus on land stewardship agencies. The top five funding entities by award count account for 39% of all awards: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southern Region (R8) leads with 15 awards and $8 million combined potential value, followed by Forest Service Eastern Region (R9) with 14 awards and $2.7 million, the Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast Region with 12 awards and $876 thousand, National Park Service Southeast Region with 6 awards and $3.6 million, and National Park Service National Office with 6 awards and $504 thousand. The top five by potential value represent 23% of combined potential value, with R8 and National Park Service Southeast Region anchoring the dollar concentration. The vendor has worked with 28 distinct federal agencies across a 26-year award history, though the customer base has narrowed significantly in recent years — 2023 saw nine awards, but 2024, 2025, and 2026 (year-to-date) averaged fewer than three per year.

Invasive Plant Control's primary vehicle is the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, from which 44 task orders carry $3.8 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds three agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts: a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service for the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) program (awarded June 2025, running through March 2033) which functions as a multiple-award vehicle for task orders across federal agencies; an $800,000 single-award requirements contract with the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center for invasive species services (awarded June 2023, extending through May 2028); and a zero-dollar-ceiling single-award BPA with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex for weed control at Tinker Air Force Base (awarded September 2022, running through September 2027). The LMIR agreement represents the vendor's largest IDV holding and anchors its Forest Service expansion strategy, though task order velocity against it remains modest.

The vendor competes almost exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides on its delivery orders and purchase orders, with occasional full-and-open competition where a set-aside was not used (such as the Citico Creek non-native invasive species treatment for Region 8 and the Bear River tamarisk control task order). Award work is concentrated in forest and range restoration, with top NAICS codes being Support Activities for Forestry (51 awards) and Exterminating and Pest Control Services (45 awards), reflecting the company's core mechanical and chemical herbicide application expertise. Combined potential value across 137 prime awards stands at $72.9 million, though only $7.1 million (10% of potential value) has been obligated to date, indicating heavy reliance on ordering activity and relatively low contract utilization density. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only two awards totaling $355 thousand reach completion in that window, suggesting the current award base is heavily front-loaded to 2027 and later. The company holds no subcontract positions in the source data and operates as a pure prime across its federal footprint.

restoration ecology with a strong emphasis on invasive spcies management in natural areas