Raymond Romine

Raymond Romine, operating as Romine Timber, is a Native American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Ahwahnee, California, that delivers mechanical site preparation, fuels reduction, heavy equipment rental, and forestry services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively, with all 29 recent awards landing as direct prime contracts, definitive contracts, or indefinite-delivery vehicles under total small business set-asides or unrestricted competitions.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounts for 19 awards and $60.5 million of the $70.1 million combined potential value across Romine Timber's portfolio — 97% of award count and 86% of potential dollars. The National Interagency Fire Center holds 6 additional awards valued at $1.9 million, and a single $7.6 million BPA call sits with USDA Forest Service at large. The remaining three awards total $187 thousand and are split among the Rocky Mountain Research Station, the Rocky Mountain Region, and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. This customer concentration is near-total and reflects Romine Timber's deep regional positioning in California forestry operations.

Romine Timber operates under a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (awarded October 3, 2022, extending through October 3, 2032) for stewardship services across nine California national forests — Eldorado, Lake Tahoe Basin, Mendocino, Plumas, Sequoia, Shasta-Trinity, Sierra, Stanislaus, and Tahoe. Recent task orders under this BPA include a $7.6 million Hume Basin Stewardship delivery order awarded May 8, 2026, covering partial award of items 4 and 5 with completion scheduled for March 1, 2029. Romine Timber also holds five smaller indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center (ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 each, awarded between June 2023 and August 2026) for heavy equipment rental — feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, excavators, and chippers — to support wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response across Regions 5 and 6.

Representative definitive contracts include a $1.001 million Total Small Business set-aside awarded June 5, 2024, for the Retiarius Mechanical Site Prep and Fuels Reduction Project (701 acres of hand and machine cutting, piling, and mastication, completion December 31, 2025); an $822,900 Total Small Business contract awarded September 25, 2023, for mechanical site preparation and fuels reduction on 633 acres in Eldorado National Forest (completion October 2, 2024); a $754,400 Total Small Business contract awarded May 29, 2023, for Desert Cold Springs mechanical site prep and fuels treatment (704 acres, completion October 31, 2025); and a $577,500 Total Small Business contract awarded October 1, 2025, for manual and mechanical site preparation on Georgetown Ranger District (375 acres, completion December 31, 2026). Romine Timber also performs equipment-rental and log-truck supply work under smaller purchase orders, including a $123,434 log truck for the National Interagency Fire Center's Dixie incident operations (December 2021) and a $110,228 log truck rental for Tahoe National Forest operations (October 2022).

Activity has been episodic. The source data shows 2 awards in 2022, 3 in 2023, 1 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award (valued at $578,000) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, meaning limited recompete exposure in that window. The $50 million Pacific Southwest Region BPA is Romine Timber's dominant vehicle and anchor, with task orders flowing steadily through 2029; the five NIFC equipment IDCs create predictable recurring revenue through 2028 and 2030.

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing totaled $519 thousand across FY2023 only, with 0.7 FTEs delivered that fiscal year. This minimal SCI footprint reflects Romine Timber's business model: the company operates primarily on firm fixed-price forestry and equipment-rental definitive contracts and task orders, not hourly labor-rate service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold. Where SCI data does capture labor, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $399.56 per hour, with rates spanning $272.54 at the tenth percentile to $526.58 at the ninety-six percentile. Romine Timber executes its work entirely through internal capacity; no subcontractors are named across the award portfolio, and SCI records show zero sub-hours engagement. The company performs work across multiple California national forests and at the Boise-based National Interagency Fire Center, with recent task orders designating performance locations in Dunlap, Clovis, and other California communities within Region 5.