Quicksilver Contracting Co

Quicksilver Contracting Co, a small-business forestry contractor based in La Pine, Oregon, delivers manual and mechanical hazardous fuels reduction, vegetation management, tree thinning, and ecosystem restoration services to federal land management agencies as a 100% prime contractor operating across western public lands and nationwide.

The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation classified under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) competing predominantly full-and-open on BLM and Forest Service vehicles without set-aside designations, though some task orders carry Total Small Business set-asides. Quicksilver operates without named subcontractors—across SCI-reportable prime contracts covering FY2022–FY2024, the vendor performed 100% of contracted hours in-house. The vendor has been registered in SAM since 2002 and holds a substantial portfolio of IDIQs and BPAs across federal land agencies.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture. The Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors the portfolio by dollar value ($652.8 million combined potential across 24 awards), while the BLM Oregon-Washington Region leads by award count (155 awards, $107.8 million combined potential) and the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (R6) ranks second by both count and value (87 awards, $118.7 million combined potential). The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (R5) and the National Park Service Intermountain Region contribute $90.8 million and $81 million respectively. These top five agencies represent 77% of combined potential value across 346 awards. Quicksilver's work is characterized by operational footprint across multiple BLM districts and Forest Service regions in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Quicksilver holds a deep vehicle portfolio anchoring recent growth. The oldest active vehicle is the Central Oregon Manual Hazardous Fuel Reduction 2022–2027 IDIQ ($145 million ceiling, running through September 19, 2027), under which the vendor has executed numerous delivery orders for juniper removal, tree thinning, and manual fuels work. Parallel vehicles include the East Oregon Manual Hazardous Fuel Reduction 2022–2027 IDIQ ($140 million ceiling) and East Oregon Mechanical Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ ($140 million ceiling), both extending through August 31, 2028. Recent awards include single-award stewardship BPAs with the Forest Service Northern Rockies Region ($50 million, May 2023), Intermountain Region ($50 million, May 2023), and Pacific Northwest Region ($50 million, April 2023). On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 established a $49.5 million National Fuels Reduction BPA with completion March 31, 2029. The BLM Oregon-Washington Region awarded a $40 million Forestry Stewardship IDIQ (Total Small Business set-aside, August 2026, running through August 2036). The vendor also holds a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources BPA with the Forest Service (June 2026, ending March 2033) and a $20 million Northern California manual fuels reduction IDIQ set aside for small business (July 2022, through July 2027). Representative delivery orders include a $2.239 million Fremont Fuel Break conifer reduction order (Forest Service Idaho Region, May 2026, through December 2027), an $831,463 FY26 Paulina 8H fuels reduction order (BLM Idaho Region, September 2026, through August 2028), and a $1.324 million juniper manual hazardous fuels reduction delivery order covering Lakeview District Picture Rock and Monument Rock areas (BLM Idaho Region, August 2024, through May 2025).

Activity has contracted over the past five years—29 awards in 2022 declining to 11 in 2025 before recovering to 19 in 2026 through October 16. Twenty awards (combined potential value $10.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $10 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2025 data not yet reported), with 4.9 FTEs in FY2022, scaling to 16.1 FTEs in FY2023 and 36.4 FTEs in FY2024. Median government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran around $90.26/hr, with senior-level labor priced through $259.22/hr. The SCI dataset is a partial view: it covers federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, classified work, and non-federal revenue, and should not be interpreted as total enterprise revenue or full federal footprint.

Quicksilver's 793-award portfolio (100% prime) is concentrated in natural resources conservation work: 593 awards under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with secondary assignments under NAICS 113310 (Logging) on 32 awards. PSC concentration tracks closely—326 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation–Tree Thinning, 112 under Natural Resources/Conservation–Other Forest/Range Improvements (Non-Construction), 79 under Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest Tree Planting, and 61 under Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The company operates as an internal delivery organization with no reliance on subcontractors, making it a pure prime with no sub footprint.

TREE PLANTING, THINNING, ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL, SLASH TREATMENT, SEEDLING PROTECTION, FERTILIZING, MACHINE & HAND PILING, STEWARDSHIP, RODENT CONTROL, END RESULT CONTRACTS, SPRAYING, BRUSH GRUBBING, SKIDDING, DECKING, AND TRIMMING, SITE PREP