Mckellar Tree Service And Logging, Inc.

Mckellar Tree Service And Logging, Inc., a Subchapter S Corporation based in Penn Valley, California, operates as a prime contractor delivering forestry services, heavy equipment rental with operators, and mechanic support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open, though it holds several total small business set-aside IDCs and BPAs.

The company's concrete capability footprint centers on vegetation removal, hazardous fuels reduction, timber harvesting, tree felling, brush clearing, and equipment rental with skilled operators to support wildland fire suppression, prescribed burning, and forest health across the western United States. Recent representative work includes a $309,342 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 (September 2025) for tree services and logging in Clovis, California under the company's $50 million single-award Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement with Region 5 through October 2032; a $285,005 purchase order from Region 5 (September 2023) for log loader rental and support on the Happy Camp Complex forestry project in Yreka, California; and a $99,983 total small business purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management (June 2025) for hazard tree mitigation and fuels reduction services near Nevada City, California. More recent awards include an $85,000 tree service delivery order from Region 5 in Solvang, California (August 2026) and a $51,321 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 3 in Flagstaff, Arizona (July 2026), both firm fixed-price and total small business set-asides.

Customer concentration is extreme and geographically narrow. The top five customer organizations account for 86% of recent awards by count and 97% of combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) dominates at 80 awards and $61.8 million combined potential value, representing 85% of all dollars. Secondary customers include the National Interagency Fire Center (19 awards, $4.8 million), Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (25 awards, $2.3 million), Forest Service Region 3 (5 awards, $927 thousand), and the Bureau of Land Management, with eleven other federal agencies represented in smaller volume.

Mckellar holds the Forest Service R5 Stewardship BPA at $50 million (single-award, non-set-aside, through October 2032) as its primary vehicle. It also sits on multiple total small business IDCs under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, including a $500,000 heavy equipment with water capability IDC for Regions 3, 5, and 6 (awarded February 2026, completion May 2030); a $500,000 heavy equipment IDC for Region 5 (awarded February 2026, completion June 2029); and several $250,000-ceiling mechanic and miscellaneous heavy equipment IDCs awarded in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The company placed 21 task orders under IDC 129J6124T7210 ($2.1 million combined value), 14 under IDC AG9J61B177157 ($770 thousand), and 11 under IDC 1202SB22T8339 ($785 thousand).

Activity has been uneven in recent years—20 awards in 2022, dropping to 7 in 2023, rebounding to 19 in 2024, declining to 14 in 2025, and 9 through mid-2026—yielding 163 total awards in the source period with $72.8 million combined potential value and $15.2 million in obligated dollars (21% of potential). Nine awards reached ultimate completion within the first eight months of 2026 and have cycled through recompete, indicating active task order velocity against established vehicles rather than recompete risk on new IDVs.

The vendor competes wholly as a prime; no subcontractor relationships are documented in the source. Its portfolio is narrowly specialized: 140 awards fall under NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry), 6 under Logging, 9 under General Automotive Repair (mechanic work), and 3 under equipment rental. PSC coding reflects the same focus: 141 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, 9 under Other Natural Resources/Conservation, and 4 under Tree Thinning.

Mckellar has held a SAM.gov registration since 2004, reflecting two decades of established relationships with federal land management agencies in western regions (Regions 3, 5, and 6 of the Forest Service predominate). The company's positioning is regionally concentrated, equipment-intensive, and tied to the Forest Service's seasonal fire suppression and fuels management cycle; the workload and contract velocity suggest active engagement but limited geographic or customer diversification.

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