Loring Scot

Loring Scot, a for-profit limited liability company based in Corvallis and Ashland, Oregon, provides botanical surveys, fungi inventories, invasive species monitoring, and ecological field studies to the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service across the Pacific Northwest as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside BPAs and task orders. The firm is a small business with no sub-award footprint and competes entirely under set-asides, holding four single-award BPAs totaling $62 million through June 2029–March 2033.

Loring Scot's capability portfolio centers on specialized natural resources consulting grounded in field-level ecological work. Representative task orders include a $818,259 purchase order from BLM's Oregon-Washington Region through April 2030 for special status botany surveys in the South Zone near Eugene; a $227,760 BPA call from Forest Service Region 6 in April 2024 for botanical and fungi inventory work at Rock Creek and Threemile near Klamath Falls; and a $89,695 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 in February 2023 for rare plant and invasive species surveys across the High Cascades and Wild Rivers Ranger Districts. Work products include vascular plant surveys, sensitive plant inventories, fungi biomonitoring, invasive species mapping, GPS-referenced species documentation, ecological site characterization, and GIS data deliverables supporting agency land stewardship and environmental compliance decisions.

Customer concentration is pronounced and regionally constrained. BLM's Oregon-Washington Region dominates award volume at 123 awards (43% of 283 total) with $5.9 million combined potential value, while Forest Service Region 6 accounts for 50 awards and $12.4 million. BLM National Office and Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions collectively hold only 5 awards but anchor $62 million in potential value through two large IDVs — a $50 million single-award Land Management Integrated Resources National (LMIR) BPA signed with Forest Service in April 2023 and three $4 million BPAs signed with BLM in June 2024 covering California, the Great Basin, and Pacific Northwest–Idaho regions. The top five customers represent 98% of combined potential value. Award concentration by geography is tight: nearly all field performance occurs in Oregon and Washington national forests and BLM districts.

Loring Scot holds exclusive positions on four BPAs with potential values of $4–50 million. The $50 million LMIR BPA with Forest Service runs through March 2033 and generates task orders across all Forest Service locations; 49 task orders have been issued to date under this vehicle, carrying $994 thousand in combined potential value. The three $4 million BLM botanical services BPAs (PNW–Idaho, Great Basin, and California) expire June 2029 and have generated 28, 24, and other task orders respectively across the source data window. A fifth vehicle, Blanket Purchase Agreement 1204N019A0005 (likely a BLM regional botanical services vehicle), has generated 28 task orders worth $1.8 million combined potential value. This vehicle concentration signals that Loring Scot's federal footprint is almost entirely task-order driven against held IDVs rather than new competitive procurements.

Activity data show recent slowdown relative to 2023–2024 peak. The firm logged ten awards in 2023, eleven in 2024, but only two in 2025 and four in 2026 through mid-November — a sharp decline despite its large BPA ceilings. Only four awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $210 thousand, suggesting limited near-term cliff exposure but raising questions about task order velocity against held vehicles. Over the firm's SAM history since at least 2003, combined potential value across 283 awards totals $82.1 million, with only $8.4 million obligated (10% utilization), indicating substantial unexercised BPA capacity. The top two NAICS codes are Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (133 awards) and Support Activities for Forestry (56 awards), with PSC codes weighted heavily toward environmental services and natural resources conservation. Work is performed exclusively in the Pacific Northwest with administrative oversight from Corvallis and Ashland, Oregon. Loring Scot does not subcontract to other federal primes and carries no sub-award exposure.

Specialization is sensitive plant/fungi/lichen/bryophyte surveys and specimen identifications. Also conduct aspects of wetland delineations. Work is performed primarily in PNW United States but have experience throughout the western United States.