Miller Timber Services, Inc.

Miller Timber Services, Inc., a for-profit forestry and emergency services company based in Philomath, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing wildland fire suppression equipment, specialized heavy machinery, trained personnel including Type 2 firefighter crews, and forestry/land management services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center across eight regional Forest Service operations as well as nationwide response. The vendor competes predominantly in open competition (non-set-aside) on larger delivery orders but holds multiple Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements, reflecting a dual posture of small business reserve participation and open-market competitiveness.

Miller Timber Services' customer concentration is heavily concentrated within the Forest Service. The top five customers by both award count and dollar value account for 74% of recent awards and 64% of combined potential value, with the Pacific Northwest Region (R6) dominating at 337 awards worth $96.9 million, followed by the Southwestern Region (R3) with 42 awards at $58 million, the National Interagency Fire Center with 76 awards at $57.1 million, the Northern Region (R1) with 56 awards at $56.7 million, and the Pacific Southwest Region (R5) with 34 awards at $55.8 million. Recent representative prime work includes a $1.14 million Blanket Purchase Agreement call from the Pacific Northwest Region in August 2025 for hazard mitigation and post-fire recovery on the McKenzie River Ranger District in Oregon; a $218,311 delivery order from the Intermountain Region in June 2026 for wildland fire and all-hazard incident response in Monroe, Utah; and a $1.25 million BPA call from the Southwestern Region in March 2026 for slash pile removal and biomass materials handling in New Mexico.

Miller Timber Services holds a substantial portfolio of indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its federal work. The largest vehicle is a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded in October 2025, extending through March 2033, under which the Forest Service procures land management, natural resources restoration, and professional services nationwide. The vendor also holds sixteen $250,000 Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded in February 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center covering miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders) and water handling resources for fire suppression across Forest Service Regions 1–9, with performance periods extending through 2028–2030. The primary task-order vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC22T2307, under which 231 task orders have been issued with $29.2 million in combined potential value. This multi-region infrastructure positions the vendor as a foundational on-call resource for the Forest Service's recurring fire suppression, incident response, and land management procurement.

Activity has remained moderate and consistent. Awards per year tracked at 107 (2022), 76 (2023), 135 (2024), 97 (2025), and 38 through mid-2026. Combined potential value across 848 prime awards totals $510.3 million, with $107 million obligated to date (21% of potential). Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.2 million), indicating minimal recompete risk in the near term; the vendor's major vehicle (the $50 million LMIR BPA) does not expire until March 2033.

SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing shows $13.2 million across FY2022–FY2024: $4.8 million in FY2022 (9.1 FTEs), $2.7 million in FY2023 (5.8 FTEs), and $5.7 million in FY2024 (6.5 FTEs). SCI represents a partial federal revenue snapshot excluding goods contracts, which dominate this vendor's portfolio. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run approximately $299/hr, with the 10th percentile at $195/hr and the 90th percentile at $587/hr, reflecting a mix of equipment operators, technical forestry specialists, and management-level personnel. The vendor performs 100% of hours in-house across SCI-reportable prime contracts (0% sub-hours share), indicating a vertically integrated service delivery model.

Miller Timber Services operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract awards in the source data and no named sub-engagement on SCI records, meaning the vendor builds its own delivery teams and does not function as a feeder to larger primes. This posture aligns with the vendor's asset-intensive model: the company supplies specialized heavy equipment (feller bunchers, forwarders, log loaders, skidders, water tenders, chippers) and direct personnel rather than contracting out specialized work. The vendor's primary NAICS footprint is 238210 (Support Activities for Forestry), with secondary codes in equipment rental (238910) and timber tract operations (113110), confirming a forestry-equipment-and-labor delivery model rather than engineering or professional services.

The source notes a prevailing wage equitable adjustment executed in February 2025, indicating cost exposure from Department of Labor wage rate determinations—a standard operating environment for federal forestry and fire suppression contracting but a material margin factor to monitor on fixed-price delivery orders.

Miller Timber Services, Inc. offers a full complement of forestry services with our experienced forestry staff specializing in tailoring our services to meet our clients needs.