Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc.

Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc., a small disadvantaged, veteran-owned business based in Vancouver, Washington, provides boundary cadastral surveys, topographic mapping, dam safety surveys, and related land surveying services to federal land management and civil works agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The firm competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, with roughly 82% of recent awards concentrated in that designation; the remaining activity splits between full-and-open and non-set-aside delivery orders.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on federal surveying for public lands and water infrastructure. Representative work includes a $427,261.31 delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon-Washington Region for corner remonument surveying in the Northwest Oregon District (May 2026); a $271,316.79 order from Forest Service Region 6 for cadastral survey work in zones 7 through 10 (June 2026); a $247,204.15 order from the Army Corps of Engineers for hydraulic cross-section surveying on the Umatilla project (April 2022); and a $318,841.16 Forest Service order for boundary line posting and blazing across Oregon and Washington (September 2022). Work spans boundary line maintenance, corner search, dependent resurveys, legal description review, riparian boundaries, topographic mapping, dam deformation surveys, real estate surveys, and cadastral boundary restoration.

Customer concentration is acute and geographically anchored. The top five customer agencies account for 82% of award count: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers leads by volume (86 awards, $927 thousand combined potential value), followed by Fish and Wildlife Service (49 awards, $48 thousand), Forest Service Region 6 (27 awards, $32.8 million), Army Corps of Engineers Portland District (24 awards, $14.9 million), and Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District (23 awards, $1 million). However, potential-value concentration is different: Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded February 2024) dominates dollar exposure at $50 million alone, making Forest Service and Army Corps the primary revenue drivers despite smaller individual task-order sizes from Fish and Wildlife and other agencies.

Minister & Glaeser holds two significant master vehicles: a $25 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Forest Service Region 6 (awarded May 13, 2024, through May 31, 2029) for boundary surveying and marking across Oregon, Washington, and portions of western Idaho and California; and a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with USDA Forest Service (awarded February 16, 2024, through March 6, 2033) for land management integrated resources services including boundary, topographic, hydrographic, control, construction, and photogrammetric surveys. The vendor also places task orders under five other parent IDIQs with the Army Corps of Engineers (31 orders under W912EF04D0004; 25 under DACW6898D0001; 20 under W9127N16D3003; 15 under DACW5798D0001) and Forest Service (14 task orders under 1240BH24D0013). Work is performed across the Pacific Northwest, with place-of-performance sites including Vancouver, Hood River, Prineville, Springfield, Albany, Roseburg, and Medford in Oregon; Portland, Walla Walla, and Colville in Washington; and related locations in Idaho and California.

Activity has been volatile: 9 awards in 2022, declining to 3 in 2023, rising to 11 in 2024, dropping to 3 in 2025, and 9 thus far in 2026. Ten awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as prime; no sub-award activity appears in the source. Of 254 total awards in the source data spanning back to 1986, the most recent activity (September 28, 2026) was a $101,897.82 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 for boundary cadastral services on Ochoco National Forest. The firm's revenue concentration and relationship depth with Forest Service Region 6 and Army Corps of Engineers Portland District are the strongest signals for future pipeline, though the $50 million BPA ceiling and the five-year extension of the Forest Service Region 6 IDIQ through 2029 provide substantial runway for task-order growth.

Land Surveying