Nick's Timber Services, Inc.

Nick's Timber Services, Inc., doing business as Nicks Timber Services Inc., is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Sheridan, Oregon, that provides invasive species control, vegetation management, habitat restoration, and hazardous fuels reduction services to the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor. The company operates 100% as a prime, with no subcontract footprint, and competes under both total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations across its portfolio.

Nick's Timber Services' customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which accounts for 99% of awards by count. FWS Region 1 dominates the award volume with 38 awards worth $5.1 million combined potential value, driven by task orders against four BPAs: a $1.5 million vegetation management BPA for the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex (awarded January 31, 2022, expiring January 17, 2027); a $1.5 million small equipment and operator services BPA for the same complex (same dates); a $450,000 hand labor and restoration activities BPA for the complex (same dates); and a $49.5 million hazardous fuels reduction BPA covering the contiguous United States and Guam (awarded March 29, 2024, expiring March 31, 2029). The $49.5 million BPA, awarded under the National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024–2029 parent vehicle and set aside for total small business, anchors the potential-value rankings — FWS Region 3 shows only one award ($49.5 million) but accounts for 88% of the company's combined potential value across all 74 awards. FWS Region 5 and the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington round out the customer set with 5 and 25 awards respectively, for $410 thousand and $855 thousand combined potential value.

Work is performed at the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge, and Finley National Wildlife Refuge in the Corvallis, Oregon area, with broader place-of-performance scope under the national fuels reduction BPA. Recent task-order examples include a $245,000 spot spray invasive species control BPA call at Willamette Valley NWR (awarded June 4, 2026, total small business set-aside, completion June 3, 2027); a $142,000 vegetation management and habitat restoration call at Finley NWR (awarded April 18, 2025, total small business set-aside, completion April 30, 2026); a $173,000 spot spraying call at Willamette Valley NWR (awarded September 12, 2023, total small business set-aside, completion October 16, 2024); and a $50,000 tree planting call at Baskett Slough NWR (awarded December 19, 2024, no set-aside, completion December 19, 2025). Capability framing reflects NAICS 115310 (support activities for forestry) and site preparation, with PSC codes centering on natural resources conservation and equipment lease or rental. Activity has declined year over year — seven awards in 2022 to one in 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $290,000) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, reflecting a recompete window dominated by the large standing BPAs rather than individual task-order churn.

Tree planting, herbicide treatment for pre- and post-planting projects, road clearning, culvert pipe hauling, cleaning ditches