Riverbend Landscapes, LLC

Riverbend Landscapes, LLC, a small business based in Great Falls, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor specializing in hazardous tree removal, vegetation management, debris removal, and arboricultural services for the National Park Service and related federal agencies, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides (27 of 39 awards carry the designation; 10 awards are unset).

The vendor's federal footprint is tightly concentrated within the National Park Service across the National Capital Region. Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office accounts for 32 of 39 awards ($2 million combined potential value), with the Midwest Region placing 3 awards ($2.9 million combined potential value) and the Southeast Region placing 2 awards ($823 thousand combined potential value). The Smithsonian Institution represents the only non-NPS customer, with a single $18,154 tree remediation award at Fort Lesley J. McNair. This concentration reflects a customer-specific, geography-specific positioning: Riverbend's work centers on hazard tree mitigation, pruning, stump removal, and debris cleanup across George Washington Memorial Parkway (the largest single program), Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Prince William Forest Park, and related sites in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Top NAICS categories are Landscaping Services (37 awards) and Landscape Architectural Services (2 awards), with primary PSC coverage under Natural Resources/Conservation—Tree Thinning (30 awards) and Housekeeping—Landscaping/Groundskeeping (7 awards).

Representative recent prime work includes a $2.636 million Department of the Interior Interior Business Center purchase order awarded September 23, 2026, for hazardous tree removal services at George Washington Memorial Parkway under Time and Materials pricing with a base period through September 2027 and four option years, requiring on-staff International Society of Arboriculture Arborist and Maryland Licensed Tree Expert certifications; a $602,543.50 National Park Service purchase order awarded September 23, 2025, for non-emergency and emergency hazardous tree removal at George Washington Memorial Parkway (Arlington, Virginia) generating $83 thousand in FY2025 invoiced labor at 0.4 FTEs; and a $405,070 National Park Service purchase order awarded September 23, 2024, for hazardous tree and debris removal at George Washington Memorial Parkway (McLean, Virginia) combining firm fixed-price and time-and-materials line items.

Activity has contracted in recent years—10 awards in 2022, declining to 1 award in 2025 and 1 in 2026 as of the source date (September 2026)—indicating significant pipeline decline or shift in the vendor's NPS recompete posture. The recent $2.636 million award reflects a significant recompete win extending into 2032, but the earlier spike in award velocity (2022–2024) has not sustained. The vendor operates as a self-performing prime: across 39 total awards, 39 are prime contracts with zero subcontract awards, and SCI-reported sub-engagement shows 0% sub-hours share on prime contracts. This suggests Riverbend delivers all arboricultural labor in-house rather than building a supply chain. SCI reporting captures only one contract above the $150,000 threshold (the FY2025 $602,543.50 order), yielding $83 thousand invoiced at 0.4 FTEs; the remaining 38 awards fall below SCI's $150,000 reporting floor and thus do not appear in the SCI dataset.