Outback Brush Cutting & Clearing LLC

Outback Brush Cutting & Clearing LLC, a Minnesota-based limited liability partnership specializing in mechanical site preparation and forest management, operates as a 100% prime contractor on small-business-set-aside awards from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. The firm's portfolio centers on specialized forestry services: mechanical disking, soil scarification via harrow and roller-chopper methods, hydroaxing, disc trenching, road obliteration, and fire line construction to support forest regeneration and land management across public lands.

Outback's customer concentration is dominated by USDA Forest Service, which accounts for all seven awards in the source data. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions holds the single largest position by potential value — a $50 million multiple-award Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA awarded March 18, 2026, running through March 6, 2033. That vehicle dwarfs the firm's four awards from Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) totaling $596 thousand in combined potential value, comprising five fiscal-year site-preparation purchase orders on the Chippewa National Forest and nearby properties in Deer River and Cass Lake, Minnesota between 2022 and 2026. A single $18 thousand award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 rounds out the federal footprint.

The LMIR BPA, while carrying a $50 million ceiling, is structured as a multiple-award vehicle, meaning Outback competes against other contractors for individual task orders. Recent activity shows one task order issued from that BPA (the June 1, 2026 call for $188,635 in site preparation across 608.5 acres in Cass Lake), suggesting Outback is actively being tapped for work but has not yet built substantial task-order volume under the vehicle's ten-year performance window. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $722 thousand, representing only 1% of combined potential value and reflecting the purchase-order structure of most prior work — small, fixed-price, individual projects rather than sustained task-order execution.

Awards per year have remained steady at one award annually from 2022 through 2025, climbing to two in 2026. One award ($189 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited recompete exposure but also signaling modest current workload depth. Outback registered in the System for Award Management in July 2018 and has competed under the Total Small Business set-aside category consistently across its federal footprint, with NAICS primary category 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry).