Chandler Johnson

Chandler Johnson, a sole proprietorship based in Aurora, Minnesota, provides forest inventory and analysis data collection services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor on full-and-open (non-set-aside) awards. The vendor specializes in field crew deployment to locate, access, and collect forest health, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, timber, and soil metrics across public, private, commercial, and wilderness forest plots spanning the Northern Research Station region covering 24 states.

Chandler Johnson operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and holds a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement valued at $9 million with the Forest Service Research Service Northern Research Station, extending through April 2028. Task orders under this BPA drive the vendor's recent activity; documented calls include a $80,565 call for New York West forest inventory data collection (awarded March 15, 2026, completion March 14, 2028) and a $68,569 call for Ohio West (awarded March 2, 2026, completion March 1, 2027). The vendor also places work under a second BPA with the Forest Products Laboratory, a subordinate Forest Service office. Chandler Johnson brings over 10 years of field experience across more than 20 states and deploys crew leaders independently to manage site location, access permissions, and data transmission supporting Forest Service research on environmental changes and forest management decisions.

Customer concentration is narrow and stable. The vendor's 15 awards across the source window split between two closely related Forest Service offices: the Northern Research Station (6 awards, $9.8 million combined potential value) and the Forest Products Laboratory (9 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value), representing 100% of the vendor's recent federal footprint. The category concentration sits entirely within forest research: 14 awards fall under NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), with PSC codes dominated by Agriculture R&D Services and Basic Research.

Activity shows volatility tied to task-order issuance cycles rather than sustained growth: one award in 2020, three in 2021, three in 2022, one in 2023, and two in 2026. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $10.8 million, with $1.7 million (15%) obligated to date. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $149 thousand, presenting modest recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data capture a single SCI-reportable record in FY2022 showing $139 thousand in invoiced revenue and 0.7 FTEs at a median government-paid rate of $90.21 per hour, with zero subcontract engagement — this narrow SCI footprint reflects the vendor's field-services nature and the fact that most awards fall below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold.