Landscaping By Brandon Centers LLC

Landscaping By Brandon Centers LLC, a DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise and small business based in Hazard, Kentucky, provides landscaping maintenance, tree removal, slope stabilization, and civil works services exclusively to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit limited liability company that operates 100% in the prime role across 36 recent federal awards with no subcontract footprint.

Customer concentration is absolute. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Louisville and the broader Department of the Army Corps of Engineers together account for all 36 awards and the full $3.1 million combined potential value. The Louisville District (ENDIST Louisville) anchors 21 awards valued at $2.3 million, while the Corps broadly holds 15 awards valued at $823 thousand. Both the award-count and potential-value rankings are identical, reflecting purely vertical customer concentration with no secondary agency exposure.

Landscaping By Brandon Centers LLC holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Corps. The largest is a $947,280 IDC awarded in August 2023 for tree felling, trimming, removal, chipping, and grinding services across Kentucky facilities, with four optional one-year periods running through December 31, 2027 and three delivery orders issued to date totaling $204,156. A second IDC valued at $400,000 (awarded May 2022, expiring December 31, 2026) covers tree trimming and removal for upper Kentucky river locations and has generated two delivery orders worth $35,000. A third, more recent IDC worth $136,500 (awarded February 2026, running through December 31, 2028) is dedicated to drift and debris removal at Buckhorn Lake. Task orders against these three IDCs dominate the activity base, with ten orders under the $947,280 contract and eight under a second vehicle generating combined potential value of $427 thousand.

Recent representative work includes a $15,750 delivery order from ENDIST Louisville in March 2026 for tree removal at Buckhorn Lake through September 2026; a $144,000 purchase order from the Corps in September 2024 for slope repair and stabilization at Carr Creek Lake Dam in Sassafras, Kentucky; and a $104,000 purchase order for a new Bobcat Compact Excavator with attachments and packages in September 2023. The company's capability portfolio, grounded in 26 awards coded to housekeeping and landscaping groundskeeping and 19 to general landscaping services, centers on tree maintenance, site preparation, debris removal, and construction of minor civil structures at Corps water resource facilities across eastern Kentucky, including Buckhorn, Booneville, Sassafras, Morehead, and Cave Run.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years — five awards per year in 2022 and 2023, dropping to one award each in 2024 and 2025, with two awards in 2026 — reflecting either capacity limits or shift to task-order execution against standing IDCs rather than new delivery orders. Only one award is scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying minimal recompete exposure of $16 thousand in that window. The company obligated $1.2 million (39% of combined potential value) across its portfolio, indicating substantial unexercised ceiling capacity across its three single-award vehicles.