Quality Forests, Inc.

Quality Forests, Inc., a for-profit small business based in Hayden, Idaho, provides nursery labor and forest restoration services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), with work concentrated on seedling production, lifting and packing operations, and plot maintenance at the Coeur d'Alene Nursery in northern Idaho. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides; recent delivery orders split between set-aside and full-and-open designations.

Quality Forests' customer concentration is extreme and creates material business risk. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) accounts for 42 awards worth $12.7 million in combined potential value — roughly 90% of the vendor's total federal dollars. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission places 81 awards for only $46 in combined potential value, reflecting administrative or low-dollar work that dominates award count but contributes negligibly to revenue. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management contributes 19 awards; the broader USDA Forest Service (non-Region-1) contributes 6. This concentration on a single USDA region means the vendor's pipeline depends on maintaining a small number of relationships and recompeting against established alternatives in that geography.

Quality Forests holds two single-award indefinite delivery contracts with USDA Forest Service Region 1, both awarded January 2023 and running through January 31, 2028: one valued at $1.934 million for native shrub and forb plot weeding, bird monitoring, and conifer seedling lifting and grading; the other at $1.494 million for nursery container labor including extraction, packing, and seedling container cleaning and filling. Task orders flow monthly or quarterly; recent awards include delivery orders for $231.5 thousand (bareroot labor, February 2026), $399.2 thousand (container labor, February 2026), and $203 thousand (seedling production maintenance, February 2025). The vendor's primary NAICS categories are Support Activities for Forestry (68 awards) and Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (29 awards), with work coded under PSC categories for tree planting, tree thinning, and seedling production.

Activity has remained flat at two awards per year over 2022–2026, indicating sustained but not growing engagement with the same customer base. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $631 thousand in potential value and recompete exposure. The vendor's total federal footprint spans 190 awards since 1991 with $14.1 million in combined potential value and $15.5 million in combined obligated dollars — a portfolio heavily weighted toward small-dollar tactical work supporting a single customer's nursery operations rather than multiple agencies or larger regional programs.