Redcastle Resources Inc.

Redcastle Resources Inc., a small for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivers geospatial services and remote sensing support to the federal government as a prime contractor on a dominant single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the USDA Forest Service, competing under total small business set-aside designations on most of its work.

Redcastle specializes in remote sensing data acquisition, geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, LiDAR and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) processing, geospatial analysis, and IT infrastructure management for natural resource management and forest health applications. The vendor's concrete capability portfolio includes landscape change monitoring, tactical fire mapping and post-fire assessment, forest health protection geospatial support, tree canopy cover mapping, resource inventory and monitoring, hazard and disaster assessment, enterprise raster data management system maintenance, and GIS training delivery. Representative work spans a $2.1 million delivery order for resource management activities (timber harvesting, reforestation, oil and gas site management, range, recreation, fuels management, post-disaster recovery) under the core $80 million USDA Forest Service IDC; a $1.5 million Geospatial Office delivery order for resource mapping, inventory, and monitoring remote sensing services; and a $681 thousand tactical fire mapping and post-fire mapping support order supporting the Forest Service's wildland fire management initiatives.

Customer concentration is extreme and entirely within the USDA Forest Service ecosystem. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 86% of recent awards and roughly 95% of combined potential value across all customer agencies. Within Forest Service, the Geospatial Service and Technology Center (also operating as the Geospatial Technology and Applications Center, or GTAC) dominates the award count (771 awards, $126.8 million combined potential value), while the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions anchors dollar value (68 awards, $157.7 million combined potential value) — a tension reflecting the Washington Office's role issuing larger contract vehicles and modifications that feed task orders to the field. The Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) accounts for 59 awards and $14.6 million. Six awards from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission appear in the portfolio but are negligible in scale.

Redcastle's primary vehicle is a single $80 million small-business-set-aside IDC with the USDA Forest Service (June 2024 through June 2029) that has generated 275 task orders ($20 million combined potential value) on one contract vehicle alone (AG84N8C100013). The vendor also places orders under four other Forest Service IDCs: AG84JCC140001 (225 task orders, $25.2 million), 1284JC18D0005 (175 task orders, $50.8 million), AG84N8C080008 (106 task orders, $10.1 million), and 12970224D0006 (47 task orders, $24.5 million). Across these five vehicles, Redcastle has placed over 828 task orders. The vendor's footprint is almost entirely Forest Service vehicles; no presence on government-wide acquisition contracts or civilian-agency IDIQs is evident in the source data.

Activity has remained relatively stable year over year in the award count, though dollars per award have grown. The vendor received 28 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 25 in 2024, and 21 in 2025, with only 4 recorded so far in 2026 (the source snapshot date is October 15, 2026). Twenty-seven awards are scheduled to complete within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $18.3 million, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated on GTAC and Washington Office renewal cycles.

On SCI-reportable federal services contracts (those above the $150,000 threshold), Redcastle invoiced $27.2 million across FY2022–FY2025. Invoicing ran $5.9 million in FY2022 (40.1 FTEs), $6.7 million in FY2023 (40.7 FTEs), $8 million in FY2024 (50.3 FTEs), and $6.6 million in FY2025 (38.5 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts tracked around a median of $73.19 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $61.70/hr and the 90th percentile at $86.64/hr, reflecting a mix of technical labor and field support personnel. Redcastle self-performs all work on SCI-reportable prime contracts with zero average sub-hours share; the vendor operates as a prime delivering its own workforce rather than as a subcontractor or orchestrator of subs. One sub-award appears in the portfolio (to a team subcontracting under a DOB050 TSSC re-compete), but subcontracting is negligible.

Redcastle's geographic footprint extends across multiple Forest Service regions and partner facilities, with primary operations in Salt Lake City, Utah but task orders directing work to Delaware, Ohio; Anchorage, Alaska; and Kincaid, Illinois, reflecting the distributed nature of Forest Service geospatial operations. The vendor is positioned as a sole or near-sole incumbent on the largest Forest Service geospatial support IDC and holds substantial depth on the four other major Forest Service vehicles in the portfolio, creating a high-switching-cost, relationship-driven competitive dynamic against potential disruptors on these contracts.