King Matthew R

King Matthew R, doing business as King Timber Management, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Ironwood, Michigan (with secondary addresses in De Pere, Wisconsin and Watersmeet, Michigan) that provides timber marking, cruising, and forest stewardship services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under a single-award blanket purchase agreement.

King Timber Management operates entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Eastern Region (Region 9), which accounts for 94 of its 96 total awards and $3.7 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds a $2 million single-award BPA (contract 12363N24A4005) awarded October 1, 2023, running through November 15, 2028, under which the Forest Service has issued approximately 23 task orders ranging from $13,927 to $56,286. Representative task orders include a $54,020 call for the Longhorn Marking Contract in Ontonagon, Michigan (May 18, 2026); a $44,928 certified marking and cruising task for the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest's Lakewood-Laona Ranger District covering 576 acres of hardwood improvement cuts (July 29, 2024); and a $56,286 call for timber marking and volume estimation across 722 acres in Iron County, Michigan supporting the Ketchum Tiger II sale (June 15, 2024). Recent activity shows six task orders awarded in 2025 and nine through mid-2026, spanning timber marking for clearcuts, red pine thinning, commercial thinning, and stewardship operations across the Ottawa, Chequamegon-Nicolet, and Hiawatha National Forests.

King Timber Management's capability footprint concentrates on timber marking and cruising support for national forest operations. Primary NAICS categories are Support Activities for Forestry (87 awards) and Timber Tract Operations (9 awards); primary PSCs are Natural Resources/Conservation-Site Preparation (35 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation-Other (38 awards). Work involves selecting and marking harvest-approved trees, conducting timber volume surveys and cruising, estimating board footage, and supporting pre-sale planning and stewardship activities across discrete timber sales projects ranging from 30 to 722 acres.

The vendor's set-aside posture is mixed. Individual task orders issued under the BPA carry either Total Small Business set-asides or no set-aside designation; the parent BPA itself does not carry a set-aside. Roughly half of recent awards (by count) carry Total Small Business set-asides, particularly purchase orders issued before the BPA was established in October 2023.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—10 awards in 2022, 9 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 9 through mid-2026. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $272 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure centered on the existing BPA vehicle. The vendor has no subcontractor relationships and does not participate in any other parent contract vehicles; all 96 awards are prime work, with 97% concentrated within a single BPA and single customer agency.