Markit! Forestry Management LLC

Markit! Forestry Management LLC, a Colorado Springs-based women-owned small business certified by the SBA, provides mechanical mastication, timber stand improvement, hazard tree removal, vegetation treatment, and integrated resource stewardship services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), operating predominantly under total small business set-asides on regional and national Forest Service vehicles.

Markit!'s customer concentration sits heavily with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five funding agencies account for 82% of awards by count and 89% of potential value. The Forest Service dominates across multiple regions: the Southwestern Region (R3) leads by award count with 24 awards carrying $123.2 million combined potential value; the Pacific Northwest Region (R6) anchors the potential-value ranking with 2 awards worth $150 million combined; the Rocky Mountain Region (R2) places 28 awards valued at $66.7 million; the Pacific Southwest Region (R5) delivered 11 awards worth $106.9 million; and the Rocky Mountain Research Station holds 3 awards valued at $53.2 million. The Bureau of Land Management placed 4 awards worth $6 million, and the National Interagency Fire Center issued 11 awards (predominantly for heavy equipment provision) worth $2.8 million. Across the portfolio, most awards fund fuels reduction, forest restoration, and wildfire mitigation work on national forests in western states — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho dominate the geographic footprint.

Markit! holds a significant position on multiple indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring the firm's pipeline. The R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management IDIQ (single-award, total small business set-aside, $50 million ceiling, awarded April 2026, extending to April 2031) and the R6 Vegetation Management Services IDIQ ($100 million ceiling, awarded March 2024, extending to March 2029) represent the largest vehicles. Additional major vehicles include single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements for stewardship services across the Pacific Southwest Region ($50 million, through October 2032), the Pacific Northwest Region ($50 million, through October 2032), the Southwestern Region covering Arizona and New Mexico ($50 million, through December 2032), the Rocky Mountain Region ($50 million, through July 2032), and the Intermountain region (Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming; $50 million, through October 2032). The National Interagency Fire Center awarded seven multiple-award IDCs for heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and chippers) across Regions 1–2, 3, 4–5, and 8, each with $250 thousand ceilings and through-2029 completion dates. Task orders across the top-performing vehicle (IDC 12837120D0027) totaled 17 orders worth $9.5 million combined. Recent awards include a $5.75 million definitive contract from the Pacific Southwest Region for hazard tree stewardship on the Plumas National Forest in California (September 2023 through December 2025), a $3.38 million BPA call from the Rocky Mountain Region for Reservoir Stewardship Integrated Resource Stewardship Coordination in Colorado Springs (July 2023 through December 2026), and two 2026 BPA calls under the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA totaling $987 thousand for mastication work in Arizona.

Activity accelerated notably from 2022 through 2024, reaching a peak of 16 awards in 2023 before declining to 11 in 2024 and 1 in 2025, with 7 awards issued so far in 2026. Five awards carrying combined potential value of $9 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's work is concentrated in natural resources and conservation forestry services — 91 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 561730), with secondary volume under Logging (3 awards). Service Contract Inventory captures federal service contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold, showing SCI-reportable invoicing of $685 thousand in FY2022, $2.1 million in FY2023, and $10.8 million in FY2024, with FTE workforce scaling from 6.4 in FY2022 to 13.1 in FY2024 across prime contracts. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran median around $231/hr, with the 10th percentile at $89.61/hr and the 90th percentile reaching $1,797.81/hr. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, sub-hours averaged 0% of total contractor hours — Markit! builds its own delivery teams without relying on subcontractor labor for the work reported through SCI. The vendor maintains a single subsidiary, Bamford-Apex-Markit! JV LLC, a small business joint venture structured as an LLC, though recent awards show no activity under this vehicle.

Forest Fuels Reduction,Forest Health Restoration, Post-Fire Rehab,Defensible Space.Projects from 10 to 1000 Acres. Completed Cheyenne Mountain State Park Fuels Reduction Project for Colorado State Forest Service 2015. On Time. On Budget. With Excellence!