Quicksilver Contracting Co

Quicksilver Contracting Co, a for-profit subchapter S corporation headquartered in La Pine, Oregon, delivers hazardous fuels reduction, vegetation management, and forestry services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor across 780 federal awards spanning three decades. The company competes predominantly full-and-open on natural resource and forestry work, with no characteristic small-business set-aside posture, though it qualifies as a small business under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry).

Quicksilver's concrete capability footprint centers on manual and mechanical hazardous fuels reduction, juniper removal, tree thinning, brush clearing, vegetation management, reforestation, and ecosystem restoration on public lands across the western United States. The company holds an extensive portfolio of IDIQs and BPAs with the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service. Representative recent prime awards include a $2.239 million delivery order from the BLM Idaho Region for the Fremont Fuel Break conifer reduction project (awarded May 11, 2026, under the Central Oregon Manual Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ), a $665,075 BPA call from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for forestry and land management work at the Deschutes National Forest (awarded August 19, 2024, set aside for Total Small Business), and a $1.324 million delivery order for juniper manual hazardous fuels reduction in the Lakeview District (awarded August 26, 2024).

Customer concentration centers on federal land management agencies in the western United States. By award count, the top three customers account for 64% of awards: the BLM Oregon-Washington Region (153 awards, $67.7 million potential value), the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (139 awards), and the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (83 awards, $117.4 million potential value). By potential value, concentration shifts toward larger IDIQs: the BLM National Office (23 awards, $652.5 million combined potential), the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (83 awards, $117.4 million), the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (10 awards, $90.8 million), the National Park Service Intermountain Region (9 awards, $81 million), and the BLM Oregon-Washington Region (153 awards, $67.7 million). The BLM National Office anchors the dollar footprint through its multi-region IDIQs, while the Oregon-Washington BLM region drives volume.

Quicksilver holds nine active parent vehicles: the Central Oregon Mechanical Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ ($145 million ceiling, awarded September 1, 2023, extending through August 31, 2028) and the East Oregon Mechanical Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ ($140 million ceiling, same award date and term) serve as the largest mechanized fuels work vehicles, with recent delivery orders aggregating approximately $521 thousand and $1.39 million respectively. The East Oregon Manual Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ ($140 million ceiling, awarded September 16, 2022, through September 19, 2027) and the Central Oregon Manual Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ (also $145 million, same award date and term) are the primary manual fuels vehicles, with 15 and 12 delivery orders respectively since award. Five Forest Service stewardship BPAs each ceiling at $50 million: the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (April 7, 2023, through October 3, 2032), the Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA (May 15, 2023, same term), the Intermountain Stewardship BPA (May 8, 2023, same term), the Pacific Southwest Stewardship BPA (October 3, 2022, same term), and the Rocky Mountain Restoration Project Stewardship BPA (August 1, 2022, through July 30, 2032). A $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources BPA was awarded June 24, 2026, extending through March 6, 2033. A $20 million Northern California manual fuels reduction IDIQ (set aside for Total Small Business) runs through July 14, 2027. Hazardous Fuel Reduction — Oregon Region 2016-2021, an older vehicle, carried 52 task orders at $12.2 million combined potential value.

Activity has declined year over year, from 29 awards in 2022 to 6 through mid-2026, reflecting maturation of the contract portfolio toward fewer, larger orders under established IDIQs rather than new-win frequency. Fourteen awards (combined potential value $8.6 million) complete in the next twenty-four months, exposing that revenue base to recompete risk.

Quicksilver operates as a 100% prime contractor footprint; the source reports zero sub-awards. SCI-reportable invoicing demonstrates federal service-contract activity of $591 thousand in FY2022 across 4.9 FTEs, $3.4 million in FY2023 across 16.1 FTEs, and $6 million in FY2024 across 36.4 FTEs. SCI captures only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and does not include goods or delivery orders that fall below the reporting floor; the figures reflect a partial view of federal services activity. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 100% of contractor hours internally with no named subcontractors. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ran around $90/hr at median, with senior labor priced through approximately $259/hr, reflecting a predominantly field-labor and forestry-operations cost structure. The vendor's workforce on federal-service-contract work expanded from single-digit FTEs in FY2022 to 36 FTEs by FY2024.

Quicksilver competes primarily on federal forestry and lands management IDIQs held jointly with other prime contractors; the source does not name teaming partnerships at the sub level. The company's award history spans the full depth of the BLM and Forest Service contracting ecosystems across Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, positioning it as a regional forestry and fuels-reduction specialist rather than a national generalist.

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