Marshfield Forest Service, Inc.

Marshfield Forest Service, Inc., a for-profit small business based in Edgefield, South Carolina, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering on-the-ground forestry and vegetation management services to federal agencies, with 100% of its 250 awards held at the prime level. The vendor competes across a mix of small-business set-asides (roughly 75% of awards) and full-and-open contracts, concentrating work in ecological restoration, invasive species treatment, and reforestation support across the Southeastern United States.

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) dominates Marshfield's customer base, accounting for 215 of 230 named awards and $33.9 million of $37.2 million in combined potential value—92% coverage of the active portfolio. The Forest Service work spans herbicide application for site preparation and invasive species control, manual and mechanical tree planting, pre-commercial thinning, vine control, and timber stand improvement across multiple national forests and ranger districts in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Representative work includes a $174,125 total-small-business-set-aside herbicide site preparation and release call on the Long Cane Ranger District (August 1, 2026); a $193,500 Fish and Wildlife Service purchase order for herbicide application across 645 acres at Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina (July 15, 2025); and a $239,598 call for herbicide site preparation and release within pine regeneration stands on the Long Cane Ranger District (August 1, 2025). The secondary customers—Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, Forest Service national research stations, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service—collectively represent less than 9% of the portfolio by value and are served through individual purchase orders rather than blanket purchase agreements.

Marshfield holds five parent IDIQs, all blanket purchase agreements with the Forest Service Southern Region. The largest is a $10 million vegetation management services BPA for North Carolina National Forest System lands (established May 31, 2022, through May 31, 2027), supporting 50 task orders worth $2.8 million. Three regional reforestation and invasive species BPAs—valued at $6.5 million each and awarded in April 2021—remain active through March 2026 and March 2027, collectively anchoring 62 task orders with $2.9 million combined potential value. A fifth vehicle, a heavy equipment rental BPA for $5 million, has generated minimal recent task order activity. Individual calls under these agreements range from $4,275 to $239,598 and are priced firm fixed price at the order level.

Activity has remained relatively flat to slightly declining over the past five years—16 awards in 2022, declining to 9 in 2026—with only five awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $283 thousand). The recompete exposure is minimal; the majority of Marshfield's revenue derives from task orders under long-running BPAs that extend through 2027, insulating the vendor from near-term cliff risk. The portfolio reflects deep specialization: 97% of awards fall under NAICS 244 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Z103 (Natural Resources/Conservation work), with concrete capability concentration in herbicide application, site preparation, tree planting, and invasive species management using labor-intensive field crews across federal-managed lands in the region.