RJO Services, LLC

RJO Services, LLC, a small business based in Severna Park, Maryland, delivers hazardous tree mitigation, forest restoration, and environmental landscaping services to the federal government as a prime contractor (83% of awards) and occasional subcontractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation operating across the Northeast and National Capital regions, with primary NAICS concentration in Landscaping Services (21 awards) and Support Activities for Forestry (8 awards), and PSC focus on Natural Resources/Conservation tree thinning (19 awards) and forest tree planting (6 awards).

RJO Services' customer base is heavily concentrated within the Department of the Interior. The top five funding agencies account for 86% of awards, but the dollar distribution is radically skewed: the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 anchors $49.5 million of the company's $56.1 million combined potential value through a single $49.5 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement for hazardous fuels reduction services nationwide (including mechanical clearing, chemical and herbicide application, and forestry support across the contiguous United States and Guam through March 31, 2029). The National Park Service, across its constituent offices, holds 25 awards (69% of volume) worth $6.2 million in combined potential value, driven by recurring work at Catoctin Mountain Park and other Northeast and National Capital region sites. The company also serves the Department of the Navy through work at installations.

RJO Services holds two primary parent vehicles. The $2.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Park Service for forest restoration at Catoctin Mountain Park (awarded June 21, 2024, through June 30, 2029) funds removal of non-native shrubs, native tree and shrub planting, and maintenance activities; six task orders have been issued, including a $411 thousand delivery order for NPS-CONOPS Strategic work and an $864 thousand FY24 Forest Restoration delivery order. The $49.5 million Fish and Wildlife Service blanket purchase agreement (awarded March 29, 2024) has generated one competed task order for $122.5 thousand in fire break construction and maintenance at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Virginia Beach, Virginia), with performance through March 31, 2029.

Representative prime awards include a $77 thousand Total Small Business delivery order with the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region for CATO Forest Restoration (ultimate completion July 2, 2029), a $197 thousand Total Small Business purchase order with the National Park Service National Office for the CATO FY26 Hazard Tree Package 1 at Catoctin Mountain Park (March 12, 2026), a $164.5 thousand definitive contract with NPS for hazardous tree management at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (September 2025), and a $105 thousand purchase order with the NPS Southeast Region for hazardous tree cutting along the Blue Ridge Parkway (July 2024). The company also executes emergency response work and cyclic tree maintenance across multiple parks.

Activity shows growth through 2024, reaching 12 awards that year, before declining to 5 awards in 2025 and 2 year-to-date in 2026. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $1.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure primarily in NPS hazard tree packages. RJO Services subcontracts to Marstel-Day, LLC on habitat restoration and invasive species management work at naval facilities and other installations, performing native tree planting, pre-seeding, ATV spraying for pollinator habitat creation, and invasive plant management.

The company's obligated value to date stands at $4.8 million against $56.1 million combined potential — a 9% execution rate — reflecting the early-stage nature of the two large IDVs awarded in 2024 and the firm-fixed-price, small-dollar nature of individual NPS purchase orders. RJO Services competes almost exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across its portfolio, with only three awards issued under full-and-open competition, concentrating its pursuit strategy within small-business-reserved solicitations from Interior Department bureaus.