Red Leaf Forestry, Inc.

Red Leaf Forestry, Inc., an SBA 8(a)-certified minority-owned and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, operates 100 percent as a prime contractor delivering manual forestry services, vegetation management, and forest restoration work to the federal government across the Southern and Eastern regions. The company specializes in concrete forestry treatments: chainsaw-based midstory removal and tree release, site preparation and tree planting (containerized longleaf, shortleaf, and loblolly pine), herbicide application via foliar spray and cut-stump treatment, invasive species control, timber stand improvement, hazard tree felling, and equipment-supported mechanical treatments such as hack-and-squirt and hack-and-blast vegetation control. Red Leaf competes predominantly under set-asides, with Total Small Business and 8(a) Sole Source designations characterizing the majority of its recent task-order and purchase-order footprint.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region), which accounts for 138 awards (66% of the 207-award prime portfolio) and $59.5 million (52% of combined potential value), covering work across national forests in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Arkansas. The remaining customer base includes the Forest Service's R9 Eastern Region (42 awards, $1.3 million), the Forest Service (non-regional, 10 awards, $430 thousand), the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (1 award, $50 million), the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (1 award, $2 million), and the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Northeast Region (1 award, $1.1 million). The top-customer rankings surface a significant recompete signal: the Forest Service Washington Office holds a single $50 million multi-award Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded August 11, 2026, with completion March 6, 2033, which dwarfs the dollar value of traditional regional BPAs but anchors a nascent vehicle with Red Leaf as one of awardee among multiple contractors. The concentration by region and scope — nearly all work flows through Forest Service Region 8 task orders — creates both customer dependency and stable recurring revenue through a portfolio of standing IDIQs and BPAs.

Red Leaf holds an established position on four named parent vehicles: the $50 million USDA Forest Service Washington Office LMIR BPA (awarded August 2026, multiple award, completion March 2033) carries the highest potential value in the portfolio; a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service Region 8 for vegetation management and biological services across Texas national forests (awarded September 2025, completion August 2030); a $7.5 million single-award BPA with Forest Service Region 8 for vegetation management and wildlife protection services across the Southern Region (awarded March 2023, completion February 2028); a $6.7 million Indefinite Delivery Contract for manual forestry services on the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee (awarded August 2022, completion August 2027); and a $10 million multiple-award BPA for vegetation management services across North Carolina national forests (awarded May 2022, completion May 2027). The top non-vehicle IDCs and IDIQs by task-order count are AG64R4C100017 (41 task orders, $1.3 million combined value), AG447UC120022 (30 task orders, $843 thousand), and 12444022D0005 (14 task orders, $1.9 million). Recent concrete award examples span from a $261,837 8(a) sole-source purchase order (June 2024) for site preparation, tree planting, and midstory removal across Pulaski and McCreary Counties, Kentucky, through a $484,618 delivery order (May 2025) for slashing, planting, and vegetation services at Cherokee-Coquille silviculture site prep in Tennessee, to a $67,502 Total Small Business BPA call (November 2026) for containerized pine handplanting at Davy Crockett and Sam Houston National Forests in Texas.

Award activity has been episodic: 14 awards in 2022, 19 in 2023, 13 in 2024, declining to 9 in 2025 and 8 in 2026. Only 7 awards (combined potential value $1.5 million) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete pressure in that window; the vendor's material recompete exposure lies with the Texas and North Carolina BPAs (completion August 2030 and May 2027 respectively) and the Cherokee National Forest IDC (August 2027). The award footprint is concentrated by NAICS code — 198 of 207 awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 6 awards under Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating and 2 under Landscaping Services. Primary PSC codes are Natural Resources/Conservation categories (Natural Resources/Conservation-Other Forest/Range Improvements Non-Construction at 88 awards, Natural Resources/Conservation-Other at 77 awards, Natural Resources/Conservation-Forest Tree Planting at 21 awards, Natural Resources/Conservation-Tree Thinning at 11 awards).

Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $504 thousand in FY2024 across 0.2 contractor FTEs on a single prime record, reflecting minimal SCI capture — the vast majority of Red Leaf's federal work flows through goods-and-services task orders and delivery orders that fall below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or are priced as materials/equipment-intensive rather than pure labor services. The single SCI record yields a government-paid hourly rate of $1,049.14/hr across all three rate percentiles, indicating a specialized labor category (likely project management or senior forestry specialist hours). Red Leaf does not subcontract on its federal work; the vendor operates as a self-contained execution entity with no named sub-hours share across SCI records and no sub-awards in the 207-award prime portfolio. The company's $114.8 million combined potential value across 207 awards and $12 million in obligated dollars represents stable, recurring task-order revenue anchored to Forest Service vegetation management requirements across the Southern and Eastern regions, with emerging multi-region exposure through the 2026 LMIR BPA platform.

Pruning, Planting, Chainsaw, Chemical Spray, Reforestation