RJO Services, LLC

RJO Services, LLC, a small business environmental and landscaping contractor based in Severna Park, Maryland, provides hazardous tree removal, forest restoration, and invasive species management services to the federal government as a prime contractor on 85% of its awards and as a subcontractor on environmental habitat work for the Department of the Navy and other installations. The company operates almost exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across its prime footprint; of 34 prime awards in the source data, 31 carry explicit total small business designations, while three carry no set-aside designation or are issued from single-award IDCs where set-aside status is embedded in the parent vehicle.

RJO Services' capability portfolio centers on arboricultural and forestry services grounded in concrete federal work. Representative prime contracts include a $150,329 total small business purchase order from the National Park Service for towpath hazardous tree management across 40 miles of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (September 2026 through September 2027, involving removal of 248 trees and pruning of 61 trees); a $864,250 delivery order for Catoctin Mountain Park forest restoration involving non-native shrub removal, native tree and shrub planting, and maintenance activities (issued July 2024); and a $49.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service for hazardous fuels reduction services nationwide, including mechanical clearing, chemical and herbicide application, and forestry support across the contiguous United States and Guam (awarded March 2024, running through March 2029). A second major NPS vehicle, a $2.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for forest restoration at Catoctin Mountain Park (awarded June 2024, running through June 2029), has already generated task orders totaling $1.6 million.

Customer concentration is sharp and tilted toward Interior Department bureaus. The top five funding agencies account for 83% of awards by count, but the distribution by dollar value is dominated by the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 $49.5 million BPA, which represents 88% of combined potential value across all 40 awards. Below that anchor, the National Park Service (combining National Office, main bureau, Northeast Region, and Southeast Region accounts) holds 29 awards with $6.6 million combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Installations Command and Naval Facilities Engineering Command together account for three awards each, surfacing through RJO Services' subcontract work under Marstel-Day, LLC on Navy habitat restoration and invasive species management projects at Naval Station Patuxent River, Fort Meade, and Naval Reactors Laboratory.

RJO Services places task orders under three named parent vehicles. The Fish and Wildlife Service $49.5 million National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024-2029 BPA is the dominant vehicle by potential value, with two task orders issued to date ($122,500 to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge for firebreak construction and $24,229 to West Virginia National Conservation Training Center for tree removal). Two NPS IDCs support the company's Catoctin Mountain Park work: the $2.5 million single-award forest restoration contract (six task orders issued) and an Indefinite Delivery Contract N4008022D0010 (six task orders, dollar total not disclosed in the source). RJO Services also holds positions under at least one other NPS IDIQ listed as 140PS124D0001 (five task orders, $1.7 million combined potential value), though the source does not detail the vehicle's name or ceiling.

Activity has grown from an average of five awards annually in 2022 to twelve in 2024, then contracted to five in 2025 and six in 2026 year-to-date. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $1.8 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure concentrated in NPS small purchase orders and task orders on the Catoctin and other regional restoration IDIQs. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $5.1 million (9% of the $56.4 million combined potential value), indicating that most work remains performable under existing ceiling authority.

In its subcontractor role, RJO Services works exclusively under Marstel-Day, LLC on invasive species management, native tree planting, habitat restoration, and pollinator garden creation at Navy installations (Naval Station Patuxent River, Naval Reactors Laboratory, Fort Meade) and other federal properties. Six sub-awards issued between October 2024 and October 2025 span FY23–FY25 regional habitat enhancement and invasive species mitigation scopes.

RJO Services' NAICS profile reflects its primary business lines: Landscaping Services (24 awards), Support Activities for Forestry (9 awards), and Environmental Consulting Services (6 awards). PSC coding aligns with this framing, with Natural Resources/Conservation Tree Thinning (23 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation Forest Tree Planting (6 awards) dominating the portfolio. The vendor's award footprint is concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, with secondary presence in the Southeast (Blue Ridge Parkway, Shenandoah, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania parks) and recent expansion into western venues through the nationwide Fish and Wildlife Service BPA.