Ponderosa Timberland, Inc.

Ponderosa Timberland, Inc., a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned 8(a)-certified small disadvantaged business based in Medford, Oregon, delivers manual forestry and land management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with a focus on tree planting, vegetation management, fuels reduction, and post-wildfire restoration across public lands in the Western United States. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and competes predominantly on total small business set-asides and 8(a) sole-source awards, though a significant volume of recent work carries no set-aside designation.

Ponderosa Timberland's customer base concentrates heavily on natural resource management agencies. The top five funding sources by award count account for approximately 90% of recent awards, dominated by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (R6) with 127 awards valued at $37.4 million combined potential value, followed by the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region with 40 awards valued at $55.4 million. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (R5) represents 40 awards at $5.3 million, and the Forest Service Northern Region (R1) accounts for 22 awards at $3.3 million. A single $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service (awarded February 2024, running through March 2033) anchors the dollar rankings; when included, the unspecified "Department of Agriculture Forest Service" entity reflects that vehicle's ceiling. The two rankings diverge meaningfully — the BLM Oregon-Washington Region ranks second in potential value but third in award count, indicating larger individual task orders compared to the more numerous but smaller Forest Service R6 orders.

Ponderosa Timberland holds five major indefinite delivery vehicles: a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA through the Forest Service (covering tree planting, brush removal, timber stand improvement, invasive species control, and hazardous fuels reduction across the Western U.S.); a $40 million BLM Western Oregon Silviculture Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) through July 2028 for reforestation and young stand management; a $60 million National Type 2 Firefighter Crews contract with the Forest Service (extended through July 2027) for crew services across California, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah; a $5 million Sudden Oak Death disease treatment IDC with Forest Service Region 6 through February 2026; and a $1 million conifer tree climbing and cone collection IDC with Forest Service Region 6 through September 2026. Representative recent task orders include a $1.74 million BLM delivery order for FY25 tree planting in Northwest Oregon (awarded November 2024), a $1.34 million BPA call from Forest Service Region 5 for tree planting at Fort Jones, California (May 2026), and a $612,365 BPA call for post-wildfire tree planting and site preparation on the Riverside and Lionshead fires in Oregon (awarded March 2024).

Activity has declined from a peak of 47 awards in 2023 to 23 in 2025 and 3 through May 2026, though the pattern reflects the timing of large IDIQ recompetes and base-period renewals rather than a loss of customer confidence. Across all awards, only 8 carrying combined potential value of $1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete pressure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor — 100% of awards are prime contracts and IDVs, with no sub-award activity in the source data. SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $2.7 million in FY2023 across 26.2 FTEs on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold; SCI reporting dropped to zero in FY2022 and FY2024, reflecting the project-oriented, delivery-order-based nature of forestry work that often falls below the SCI reporting floor or is structured as firm-fixed-price goods-and-services hybrids. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the median government-paid rate ran at $50/hr with no subcontractor engagement (0% sub-hours share), indicating the vendor builds its own delivery teams for federal work.

Ponderosa Timberland's portfolio concentrates overwhelmingly on natural resources and conservation work. The top five PSC categories account for 238 of 264 awards: tree planting (69 awards), fire suppression and presuppression (61 awards), tree thinning (57 awards), other forest and range improvements (51 awards), and other natural resources and conservation work (11 awards). The geographic scope of performance spans the Western United States, with primary operations in Oregon and California national forests and BLM districts, and recurring work in Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The company's 8(a) certification expires October 25, 2026, creating a decision point for future set-aside eligibility and pricing posture on competitive vehicles. Recent awards split roughly evenly between set-aside and full-and-open competition, reflecting both the vendor's incumbent position on large IDIQ vehicles and the Forest Service's increasing use of non-set-aside task orders against those vehicles once awarded.

The company has extensive knowledge in the reforestation field many of it's key employees have over 25 years of experience Ponderosa Timberland prides itself in delivering all work on time and with an excellent quality.