Marshfield Forest Service, Inc.

Marshfield Forest Service, Inc., a for-profit small business based in Edgefield, South Carolina, provides forestry and vegetation management services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor on blanket purchase agreements and task orders, competing entirely under total small business set-asides across the vast majority of its federal footprint. The vendor has delivered 248 prime federal awards—all as a small business prime—with no subcontract work, totaling $37.1 million in combined potential value across the past two decades.

Marshfield's capability portfolio centers on on-the-ground forestry operations: herbicide application (backpack spray, hack-and-squirt, basal bark, stem injection), manual and mechanical tree planting and site preparation, invasive species treatment (particularly Chinese tallow, Japanese climbing fern, and Phragmites), timber stand improvement, pre-commercial thinning, vine control, and forest ecosystem restoration. Representative work includes a $239.6 thousand total small business set-aside BPA call from the Forest Service Southern Region (August 1, 2025) for herbicide site preparation and release services within pine regeneration stands on the Long Cane Ranger District in Bradley, South Carolina; a $193.5 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (July 15, 2025) for herbicide application across 645 acres at Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina targeting Chinese tallow and sweetgum trees; and a $104.9 thousand total small business set-aside BPA call from the Forest Service Southern Region (May 11, 2022) for herbicide site preparation and release acquisition in Mountain Rest, South Carolina.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in civilian land management. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 213 of 248 awards (86% of the portfolio) and $33.7 million of the $37.1 million combined potential value (91%), covering work across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 is the second-largest customer with 6 awards totaling $531 thousand. The remaining 4 agencies—USDA Forest Service (non-regional), NRCS Southeast Region, Forest Service Southern Research Station, and the Army Corps of Engineers—collectively represent fewer than 3% of awards and potential value. Place of performance spans multiple ranger districts and national forests: Long Cane, Enoree, and Andrew-Pickens districts of Sumter National Forest; Francis Marion National Forest; Pisgah National Forest; Mountain Rest, Huger, Whitmire, Robbinsville, Murphy, and Mars Hill, South Carolina and North Carolina; and Pinckney Island and Wassaw National Wildlife Refuges in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

Marshfield holds three primary parent blanket purchase agreements with the Forest Service Southern Region. A $10 million BPA (awarded May 31, 2022, through May 31, 2027) for vegetation management services across North Carolina supports 49 task orders totaling $2.6 million in potential value. A $6.5 million BPA established April 1, 2021 (extending through March 31, 2026, per earlier award summaries) for reforestation and non-native invasive species forestry support across the Southern Region anchors additional calls. A third vehicle referenced in older award summaries is a $5 million BPA for heavy equipment rental supporting emergency response operations in Region 8. The vendor also appears on smaller regional Forest Service IDIQs, with 24 task orders on Contract AG4670C170081 ($929 thousand) and 20 on Contract AG4670C140061 ($827 thousand).

Activity volume peaked in 2022 (16 awards) and has since plateaued: 15 awards in 2023, 13 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 7 year-to-date in 2026 (as of September 1). Twelve awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $747 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the vendor's portfolio scale. The portfolio is almost entirely reserved for small business set-asides (over 92% of recent awards carry total small business designations), with a handful of full-and-open or no-set-aside task orders appearing on long-standing IDIQ vehicles.

NAICS concentration is extreme: 242 of 248 awards (98%) fall under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry), with the remaining 6 awards scattered across soil preparation/planting, heavy civil construction, pesticide manufacturing, and equipment rental. PSC codes track this focus—177 awards are coded to Natural Resources/Conservation-Other, 33 to Forest Tree Planting, 12 to Other Forest/Range Improvements, and the balance to land treatment and environmental systems protection categories.