Morris AG Air Southwest, LLC

Morris AG Air Southwest, LLC, doing business as Morris-Equipment, is a small disadvantaged business prime contractor based in Yuma, Arizona, providing aerial herbicide application, vegetation management, and invasive-species control services to federal land management agencies, primarily the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on purchase orders and BPA calls, with a single full-and-open $3.86 million definitive contract to the BLM Idaho Region for imazapic treatment across 38,065 acres completed in 2024.

Morris AG Air Southwest operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on aerial application of pre-emergent and post-emergent herbicides (imazapic, diflubenzuron) to treat invasive annual grasses and rangeland pests across western public lands; aerial seeding for landscape restoration projects; and rangeland pest management targeting grasshoppers and Mormon crickets. Representative work includes a $3.86 million firm-fixed-price contract with BLM Burns District (Idaho Region) for imazapic herbicide treatment on approximately 38,065 acres (awarded September 2022, completed September 2024); a $440 thousand Gold Butte National Monument herbicide application contract with BLM National Office for approximately 8,000 acres (completed December 2023); and a $119.3 thousand Sloan Herbicide Treatment purchase order with BLM Nevada Region for fuel break application across 1,473 acres (completed February 2024).

Customer concentration sits heavily with BLM and USDA. The top five funding offices by award count account for 77% of recent awards, with BLM Nevada Region leading on volume (six awards, $824 thousand combined potential value), followed by USDA Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region (three awards, $644 thousand) and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine (three awards, $748 thousand). However, the potential-value rankings diverge sharply: USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions anchors 98% of combined potential value through a single $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA awarded July 2025 with performance through March 2033. The vendor also holds a $283.5 thousand single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine for grasshopper and Mormon cricket aerial treatments across six western states through April 2027.

Activity has grown modestly — one award in 2022 to four in 2025 — with two awards (combined potential value $250 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The vendor's award footprint spans 22 prime contracts and IDVs across nine distinct customer agencies since 2012. NAICS specialization clusters on Support Activities for Forestry (15 awards) and Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (5 awards); PSC codes reflect Natural Resources/Conservation work, dominated by Aerial Fertilization/Spraying (8 awards) and Aerial Seeding (7 awards). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $57 million, of which $6.7 million has been obligated to date.

Aerial Spraying, Crop dusting, aerial seeding, spraying crops, dusting crops.