Markit! Forestry Management LLC

Markit! Forestry Management LLC, an SBA-certified women-owned small business, delivers mechanical mastication, timber stand improvement, hazard tree removal, and integrated resource stewardship services to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across western national forests and grasslands under total small business set-asides.

The company is a Colorado Springs–based limited liability partnership specializing in fuels reduction, wildfire mitigation, and ecosystem restoration for federal land management agencies. Markit! operates predominantly under total small business set-asides across multiple indefinite-delivery and blanket purchase agreement vehicles; awards without explicit set-aside designations still reflect the firm's women-owned small business status as a competitive advantage. Primary NAICS concentration is 238220 (Support Activities for Forestry), with secondary logging work under NAICS 113310. Recent representative work includes a $5.7 million definitive contract with Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) for fuels management and road reconstruction at Giant Sequoia groves in the Sierra National Forest (September 2023); a $1.25 million BPA call from Region 5 for mechanical mastication and fuels reduction on the Bald Mountain Fuelbreak project, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California (September 2026); a $3.4 million stewardship services BPA call from Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) for integrated resource stewardship in Colorado Springs through 2026 (July 2023); and $515.7 thousand from Region 3 (Southwestern) for cutting and piling dead trees on the North Kaibab Ranger District, Arizona (June 2026).

Markit!'s customer base is heavily concentrated in the Forest Service. The top five funding agencies account for 83% of awards by count and 89% by combined potential value. Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) leads with 30 awards totaling $166.9 million combined potential value, followed by Region 3 (Southwestern) with 24 awards worth $123.2 million, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) with 12 awards worth $108.2 million, the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center with 11 awards totaling $4 million, and the Bureau of Land Management National Office with 4 awards worth $6 million. The two rankings track closely: Region 2 dominates both volume and dollars, and Region 3 ranks second in both. Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) emerge as secondary high-dollar customers at $53.2 million and $50 million respectively, anchored by single-award stewardship BPAs. This concentration reflects Markit!'s positioning as a dedicated regional stewardship contractor for the Forest Service across CONUS western states.

Markit! holds multiple large indefinite-delivery and blanket purchase agreement vehicles positioned for task order issuance. The R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management IDIQ, a single-award total small business set-aside awarded April 2026, carries a $50 million ceiling through April 2031 and serves as the company's largest single vehicle for Region 3 work. The Region 02 Vegetation Management Services IDIQ, a multiple-award vehicle awarded March 2024, carries a $100 million ceiling for Region 2 through March 2029. Stewardship BPAs with $50 million ceilings each anchor work in the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5, through October 2032), Southwestern Region (Region 3, through December 2032), Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2, through July 2032), Intermountain region (Region 4, through October 2032), and Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6, through October 2032). The National Interagency Fire Center awarded Markit! multiple-award IDIQ contracts for heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and chippers) across Regions 1–2, 3, and 4–5, with ceilings ranging from $250 thousand to $750 thousand and completion through 2029, supporting emergency incident dispatch capacity. The top three parent vehicles by task-order volume are the Region 3 Fuels IDIQ (17 task orders, $9.5 million combined potential value), the Intermountain Stewardship BPA (5 task orders, $272 thousand), and Rocky Mountain Restoration Project Stewardship BPA (4 task orders, $5.4 million).

Activity has grown significantly from nine awards in 2022 to sixteen in 2023 and eleven in 2024, with ten awards in 2026. Seven awards (combined potential value $9.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $685 thousand in FY2022, $2.1 million in FY2023, and $10.8 million in FY2024, reflecting federal services work capturing roughly 13.1 FTEs in FY2024 and scaling workforce delivery over the reporting period. SCI-reported federal service-contract pricing spans a wide spectrum: median government-paid hourly rates run around $231 per hour, with senior labor and specialized operations pricing through $1.8 thousand per hour and entry-level operations at $90 per hour, typical of field-intensive forestry services. Markit! performs field work directly without material subcontractor engagement — the SCI data shows zero percent average sub-hours share across prime contracts, indicating the company builds and deploys its own labor teams. The vendor maintains a single named subsidiary, Bamford-Apex-Markit! JV LLC, structured as a small business joint venture.

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!