Tom Lodge

Tom Lodge, a small business sole proprietorship based in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, provides forestry and vegetation management services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across Blanket Purchase Agreements and indefinite delivery vehicles, exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with a portfolio spanning invasive species control, timber stand improvement, herbicide application, site preparation, and forest health treatments across national forests and parks in the southeastern United States.

Tom Lodge's customer base concentrates heavily with the USDA Forest Service Southern Region, which accounts for 61 of the vendor's 96 total active awards and $17.9 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region follows with 13 awards ($1.4 million combined potential value), and the USDA Forest Service Research Service Southern Research Station contributes 19 awards ($713 thousand). The vendor also holds a $50 million BPA awarded February 5, 2026, by the USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions for the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement, a ten-year multiple-award contract running through March 6, 2033, that expands the vendor's scope to federal lands nationwide and includes work for the Department of the Interior National Park Service. This single large IDV represents 71% of the vendor's combined $70.2 million potential value across all awards.

Recent work exemplifies the vendor's core capability. A $46,494 BPA call awarded September 28, 2026, tasks Tom Lodge with treating climbing vines and invasive non-native species across 252 acres in nine areas on the Pisgah Ranger District using backpack sprayers and herbicide application, with completion due September 27, 2027. Concurrent with that award, a $73,980 firm-fixed-price Purchase Order from the National Park Service (awarded September 23, 2024) commits the vendor to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid suppression and Eastern Hemlock protection in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park through April 30, 2025. Smaller task orders under the vendor's active $7 million single-award Wildlife and Forest Projects BPA (through August 31, 2028) and $10 million multiple-award Vegetation Management Services BPA (through May 31, 2027) range from $8,550 to $50,544 and cover basal bark herbicide application, streamline release with herbicide, oak shelterwood treatment, and site preparation across Pisgah, Nantahala, and other North Carolina national forests.

Activity has been episodic over the past five years: four awards in 2021, eight in 2022, nine in 2023, one in 2024, and three in 2026. Only three awards ($75 thousand combined potential value) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, providing limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor has never held subcontractor positions in the source record — all 116 awards in the portfolio are prime positions. Tom Lodge competes entirely within the Total Small Business set-aside landscape and holds no position on government-wide vehicles, GWACs, or agency schedules beyond the Forest Service and National Park Service BPA framework.

Trail maintenance and construction; release/thinning; tree planting; riverbank/wetlands restoration; landscaping.