Lomakatsi Ecological Services, Inc.

Lomakatsi Ecological Services, Inc., a small business based in Ashland, Oregon, provides ecological restoration, forest management, and wildland fire support services to the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open across a portfolio of indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements without set-aside designations.

Lomakatsi operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) across 71 federal awards with combined potential value of $7.9 million and $5.9 million obligated. The vendor specializes in habitat restoration, invasive species control, reforestation, water handling services for wildland fire suppression, and ecological crew services on national forests and grasslands, primarily in Regions 5 and 6 of the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest. Representative work includes a $251,317 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 6 for habitat restoration and invasive species control (awarded September 8, 2024), a $213,729 delivery order for similar conservation tasks on national forests in Oregon (September 4, 2024), and a $172,128 delivery order for ecological services in Springfield, Oregon (October 7, 2022).

Customer concentration is extreme and regional. USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 42 of 71 awards ($3.5 million combined potential value, 59% of total), followed by the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington with 13 awards ($2.5 million, 32%). The Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center contributes 8 awards ($1.1 million, 14%). Together, these three customer nodes represent 94% of award count and 97% of potential value; the overlap between top customers and top potential-value customers is perfect, indicating that Lomakatsi's largest customers by count are also its largest by dollar magnitude. Nearly all work falls under NAICS 541720 (Support Activities for Forestry).

Lomakatsi holds five active indefinite delivery contracts and related blanket purchase agreements. The highest-traffic vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract INL07PC90086 (11 task orders, $2.2 million combined potential value), followed by IDC 1202SC21T2424 (11 task orders, $1.5 million). Two recently awarded small-business-set-aside water-handling IDCs became active in 2025 and 2026: a $500,000 multiple-award contract from the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling in Region 6 (awarded February 6, 2026, through May 2030) and a $250,000 multiple-award contract from USDA Forest Service Region 6 for the same scope (awarded May 29, 2025, through May 2030). These represent a shift toward small-business-set-aside positioning on fire-support work, whereas delivery orders drawn from older ecological-services IDCs do not carry set-asides.

Activity has declined materially. Lomakatsi received 10 awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 2 in 2026 (as of May). The vendor has no subcontract footprint; it does not operate as a sub-recipient or sub-contractor on federal awards. Nearly all work is performed in Oregon and Washington, with some presence in northern California (Region 5). The vendor's federal footprint is regionally concentrated, operationally specialized, and narrowly concentrated on two customer nodes in the Pacific Northwest forest management ecosystem.