Northern Lights Surveying Services Inc.

Northern Lights Surveying Services Inc., doing business as Northern Lights Surveying Co, provides cadastral survey and boundary delineation services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Virginia, Minnesota, operating under NAICS 541372 (Surveying and Mapping Services) and PSC codes for architect-and-engineering survey work and professional land-survey services.

Northern Lights operates exclusively with a single customer: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Eastern Region (Region 9), which accounts for all ten awards totaling $5.9 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds two indefinite delivery contracts for cadastral survey services — one established in 2019 covering the Superior National Forest in Minnesota (with a $500,000 per-task-order ceiling), and a second awarded in August 2023 covering the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota with a $2 million combined ceiling through August 2028. Against these IDIQs, Northern Lights has issued six task orders totaling $623 thousand under the Superior National Forest IDIQ (contract 1263A919D0003) and one task order for $29,850 under the Chippewa IDV. In addition to IDIQ task orders, Northern Lights holds a $206,130 definitive contract awarded September 21, 2026, on a total small business set-aside for boundary line survey work (NFTM/NIKS) in Virginia, Minnesota, running through September 2027.

Recent representative work includes a $161,930 delivery order (awarded August 2023) for cadastral survey services at Superior National Forest; a $99,760 task order (May 2022) for Moose River and Seven Beaver cadastral surveys; and a $29,850 delivery order (August 2024) for approximately 5.75 miles of boundary surveying in Cass County, Minnesota. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $859 thousand, representing 15% of combined potential value. One award ($206,130) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Northern Lights does not operate as a subcontractor and has not won work outside the Forest Service Eastern Region customer base.