King Matthew R

King Matthew R, doing business as King Timber Management, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship that provides timber marking, cruising, volume estimation, and forest stewardship services exclusively to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, with 100% of recent awards issued as individual purchase orders or blanket purchase agreement task orders under Total Small Business or no set-aside designations.

King Timber Management operates from Ironwood, Michigan and De Pere, Wisconsin, competing full-and-open rather than through dedicated set-aside vehicles. The company's footprint is narrowly concentrated in one federal customer — the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for all 100 recent prime awards. Within that agency, 96 awards (97% by count) flow from Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region), with the remaining awards split among the Forest Products Laboratory, Northern Research Station, Pacific Northwest Region, and Washington Office Acquisitions. The single standout by dollar value is a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded July 6, 2026 by Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions, with ultimate completion March 6, 2033. That BPA's scope covers timber marking, cruising, forest stewardship, and related natural resources services across national forests in Michigan and Wisconsin; individual task orders under it have ranged from approximately $13,900 to $56,300 to date.

King Timber Management's core capability centers on discrete, high-frequency forestry operations. Representative work includes a $54,020 timber marking contract for the Longhorn Marking Contract in Ontonagon, Michigan (May 18, 2026) covering approximately 360 acres; a $56,286 timber marking and volume estimation call for 722 acres in Iron County, Michigan supporting the Ketchum Tiger II sale (June 15, 2024); and a $26,445 timber marking and cruising task order for 380 acres and 2.6 million board feet at Watersmeet, Michigan (June 1, 2026). Work spans clearcut marking, commercial thinning, hardwood improvement cuts, red pine thinning, pre-sale planning, and timber cruising across the Ottawa, Chequamegon-Nicolet, and Hiawatha National Forests. Performance locations cluster in Michigan and Wisconsin forest service areas, with Watersmeet, Lakewood, Ontonagon, and Watersmeet-Iron River districts appearing repeatedly across the award history. Work is firm fixed price across all identified calls.

The vendor holds two parent BPAs. The principal vehicle is BPA 12363N24A4005, a $2 million single-award agreement with Forest Service Region 9 awarded October 1, 2023, running through November 15, 2028, under which 26 task orders totaling $681 thousand have been issued through mid-2026. Individual task orders under that BPA vary in set-aside posture — some carry Total Small Business set-asides, others carry no set-aside. The second vehicle is the $50 million LMIR BPA awarded by Washington Office Acquisitions in July 2026, which carries no set-aside at the parent level but allows individual task orders to be designated as either Total Small Business or open.

Activity has grown to 13 awards in 2026 after three years of 6–10 awards per year (2022–2025). Eleven awards carrying combined potential value of $258 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure across timber marking and cruising projects in the Eastern Region. The combined potential value across the 100 recent awards is $53.8 million, though only $1.8 million (3%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the high proportion of ceiling values on the two parent BPAs relative to task-order utilization. Category concentration is deep: 91 of 100 awards fall under NAICS 541614 (Support Activities for Forestry), with the remaining 9 under NAICS 113210 (Timber Tract Operations). Primary service codes cluster on Natural Resources/Conservation–Other (42 awards), Natural Resources/Conservation–Site Preparation (35 awards), and Natural Resources/Conservation–Land Treatment Practices (17 awards).