Mark Swanson Logging, Inc.

Mark Swanson Logging, Inc., operating as Mark Swanson Logging, is a small business prime contractor based in Orofino, Idaho, that delivers commercial logging, vegetation management, wildfire suppression equipment and personnel, and forest stewardship services exclusively to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service across western regions under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor competes exclusively under set-asides — all 66 awards in the source record carry Total Small Business designations or no set-aside (full-and-open to small businesses only), reflecting a small-business-focused competitive posture across the entire prime footprint.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the Forest Service and its subordinate regional and interagency structures. The top three funding entities account for 94% of awards by count and 100% of combined potential value: Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) leads with 15 awards and $52.9 million combined potential value, the National Interagency Fire Center carries 14 awards worth $4.3 million, and Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) anchors 31 awards valued at $3.1 million. The divergence between award count and potential value reflects Region 1's numerous small task orders against standing IDCs versus Region 6's concentration of dollars in fewer but larger agreements, particularly the $50 million Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA awarded in April 2023. Region 6 thus represents the vendor's primary revenue engine despite a lower award count.

Mark Swanson Logging holds a diversified portfolio of standing IDCs and BPAs through the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The flagship vehicle is the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (AG0343B157167), a single-award $50 million agreement through October 2032 issued by Region 6, from which five task orders totaling $984 thousand have been placed. The vendor also holds multiple $250 thousand and $500 thousand VIPR incident blanket purchase agreements for heavy equipment task forces, water handling, and miscellaneous equipment across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, and West Zone Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10, with ultimate completion dates spanning 2025 through 2030. Representative recent delivery orders include a $90.8 thousand firm fixed-price task order issued by Region 6 on August 14, 2026, for logging and vegetation management in Wenatchee, Washington, a $66.3 thousand order from Region 1 on August 4, 2026, for natural resource management in Kamiah, Idaho, and a $76.6 thousand Region 6 order on August 2, 2026, for logging in Pendleton, Oregon. Task orders are issued for periods ranging from days to weeks and carry firm fixed-price structures based on stated hourly rates for up to 16-hour daily shifts.

The vendor's capability footprint spans 55 awards classified under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry), 10 under Logging, and 1 under equipment rental — with 53 awards coded to PSC for Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression and 6 to Forest/Range Fire Rehabilitation. Services include deployment of heavy equipment such as water trucks, dozers, feller bunchers, skidgines, and tractor plows, along with certified personnel to support wildland firefighting, vegetation management, commercial timber harvesting, and forest stewardship across the western United States. Mark Swanson Logging maintains no subcontractor footprint in the source record; 100% of the 66 awards reflect prime work.

Activity has remained modest and cyclical. The past five years show four awards in 2021, three in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2025, and eight in 2026, reflecting task-order issuance patterns tied to seasonal fire and stewardship cycles rather than sustained growth. Combined potential value stands at $60.9 million, with $4.9 million (8%) obligated to date. The vendor's recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months centers on the expiration of older VIPR IDCs and BPAs; the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA runs through October 2032, while several East and West Zone water-handling and heavy-equipment agreements complete between May and July 2025, positioning those vehicles for renewal or repricing.