Nowak Ryan

Nowak Ryan, a sole-proprietorship small-business joint venture based in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, delivers forest inventory and analysis data collection services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively — all fifteen federal awards in recent years are prime contracts, with no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes full-and-open (no set-aside designations across the entire award portfolio) and specializes in field survey work supporting the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program across the Northeast region.

The vendor's customer concentration is narrow and monolithic. Two USDA Forest Service organizations account for 100% of recent awards: the Forest Service Research Service Northern Research Station (12 awards, $9.1 million combined potential value) and the Forest Products Laboratory (3 awards, $66 thousand combined potential value). Within this single-agency posture, Nowak Ryan holds a $7.5 million single-award BPA (awarded July 11, 2025, running through December 15, 2029) under the Northern Research Station for comprehensive forest and urban landscape data collection across 24 states. That master BPA anchors the vendor's position; subordinate task orders under a second BPA (12568020A0005) total 11 calls valued at $1.4 million combined. Representative work includes a $237,765 BPA call for New Jersey forest inventory data collection (May 14, 2025; ultimate completion February 15, 2027), a $187,410 call for New York and Connecticut FIA work (March 15, 2026; completion March 14, 2028), and a $182,920 call for Eastern New York inventory collection (May 14, 2025; completion February 28, 2027). Earlier awards ranged from approximately $37,000 to $201,150 and covered Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey field seasons from 2022 onward.

Activity has been episodic rather than growth-oriented: three awards in 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and two in early 2026. Four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $734 thousand — a modest recompete exposure relative to the $7.5 million master BPA ceiling. The vendor's service line is categorized under NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and PSC codes for agriculture R&D services and basic research. Obligated dollars across all awards total $1.4 million against $9.2 million in combined potential value (15% execution rate), consistent with the multi-year performance windows typical of field data collection contracts in the FIA program.