Mid Dakota Vegetation Management, LLC

Mid Dakota Vegetation Management, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Miller, South Dakota, delivers noxious weed control, herbicide application, and vegetation management services to federal land-management agencies across the northern Great Plains as a prime contractor operating exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company competes entirely in the prime role—272 recent awards span no subcontract activity—and maintains deep specialization in invasive plant species treatment, ATV/UTV spraying, and bare-ground herbicide application across federal forests, power-administration lands, and water-resource facilities.

Mid Dakota Vegetation Management's customer concentration clusters tightly around three federal agencies. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (R2) anchors the portfolio with 57 awards and $16.7 million in combined potential value, followed by the Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration (16 awards, $4.2 million) and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District (68 awards, $3 million). These three customers account for approximately 82% of the vendor's combined potential value across the portfolio. The top two rankings diverge slightly: the Corps of Engineers leads by award count (68 delivery orders) but trails in dollars, while the Forest Service dominates the potential-value ranking. The portfolio spans 14 distinct customer agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region, Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas, and U.S. Forest Service regional commands.

Mid Dakota Vegetation Management holds task-order positions on five indefinite delivery contracts. The largest vehicle is an IDIQ under Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2 (contract 5367T030041), carrying 34 task orders valued at $2.4 million combined. The vendor also places work under an Army Corps of Engineers IDIQ (W9128F06A0012, 22 task orders, $430 thousand), a Forest Service R2 IDIQ supporting noxious weed work (1267T018D0005, 9 task orders, $2.6 million), and two additional Forest Service IDIQs (AG82X9C110040 and AG82X9C090223) carrying smaller task-order volumes. Representative work includes a $3.19 million definitive contract awarded June 2023 by the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for noxious weed control across four ranger districts on the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming (completion December 2025); a $1.25 million definitive contract from Western Area Power Administration for bare-ground herbicide application and noxious weed control across the Great Plains (completion October 2025); and a $500,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District running through July 2028 for ATV/UTV noxious weed spraying across South Dakota and North Dakota, which has generated three delivery orders ($85.2 million, $49.7 thousand, and $39.8 thousand respectively). Recent 2026 work includes a $243 thousand definitive contract from Western Area Power Administration for commercial weed spraying services (completion March 2027) and a $29.8 thousand delivery order from the Corps of Engineers Omaha District for ATV/UTV spraying at Oahe Project (completion November 2026).

Award activity has been declining in recent years: the vendor received five awards in 2022, seven in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026. Only three awards (combined potential value $387 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating relatively modest recompete exposure through mid-2028. The vendor's footprint is concentrated in NAICS 541512 (Landscaping Services, 106 awards) and 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry, 88 awards), with ancillary exposure in environmental consulting and agricultural chemical categories. The company has maintained SAM.gov registration since 2002 and obligated $20.6 million against a combined potential value of $30.9 million across the portfolio (67% obligation rate).

Service Contract Inventory data covering fiscal years 2022 through 2023 (before the reporting threshold was exceeded in later years) shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $241 thousand in FY2022 and $249 thousand in FY2023, with minimal FTE reporting (0.6 FTEs in FY2022, 0.4 FTEs in FY2023). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ranged from approximately $89/hr at the tenth percentile to $276/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile, with a median of $193/hr. The vendor engages no named subcontractors on SCI-reportable work and builds delivery teams entirely from internal resources.