Melton Forestry Service LLC

Melton Forestry Service LLC, a small-business sole proprietorship based in Piedmont, Missouri, provides lands management and forestry services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. All six awards in the source footprint are primes, with 100% of recent work funded by the Corps of Engineers, primarily through the St. Louis District.

Melton Forestry's entire federal footprint centers on natural resources management at Wappapello Lake in southeastern Missouri, supporting the Corps' Memphis District operations. The vendor holds two single-award indefinite-delivery contracts with the Corps — one awarded April 11, 2023, with a $1.5 million ceiling through April 10, 2028, and another awarded May 1, 2026, with a $1.5 million ceiling through March 31, 2031. Both contracts are set aside for Total Small Business and cover forestry management, lands management, food plot establishment, and related natural resources activities. Task orders issued against these IDCs include a $162,522 delivery order (May 2024) for Option Year 1 lands management services, an $89,057 order (August 2023) for fall food plot establishment, a $40,550 order (April 2023) for spring and summer lands management, and a $100,053 order (June 2026) for ongoing lands management services. Combined, the two IDCs represent $3.4 million in combined potential value across six awards. Work is performed entirely at Wappapello, Missouri, with the vendor providing equipment, labor, supervision, materials, seed, fertilizer, chemicals, and supplies.

The vendor operates under NAICS 115112 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) and PSC F006 (Natural Resources/Conservation–Land Treatment Practices). Recent activity shows three awards in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2026, though only one award ($100,053) carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, creating limited recompete exposure in the near term. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $392 thousand, or roughly 12% of the $3.4 million combined potential value, indicating work remains largely unexecuted against current contract ceilings. The vendor has no subcontract footprint in the source data; all work is prime performance.