Ross Tree Expert Company

Ross Tree Expert Company, doing business as Rtec Treecare, operates as a small business prime contractor specializing in hazardous tree removal, pruning, vegetation management, and landscape restoration services for federal civilian agencies, with nearly all recent work set aside for small business or performed full-and-open on the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule. The Falls Church, Virginia-based for-profit Subchapter S Corporation competes across both small-business set-asides (approximately 50% of recent awards) and full-and-open delivery orders, primarily under the GSA MAS vehicle and agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts.

Rtec Treecare's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Interior National Park Service accounts for 197 of 225 total awards (88% of award count) and $17.8 million of $24.6 million combined potential value (72%), split across the National Office (174 awards, $16.2 million), the Northeast Region (16 awards, $1.2 million), and smaller regional offices. The company's secondary customer by dollar value is the Department of Homeland Security US Secret Service ($2.3 million, one award for landscaping design and maintenance at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC), followed by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command ($1.4 million) and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center ($950 thousand). All other agency relationships contribute marginally to the portfolio.

Rtec Treecare's work is routed through four primary parent vehicles. An Indefinite Delivery Contract (INP15PC00230) anchors 115 task orders worth $5.1 million combined potential value—the bulk of the NPS National Office work in hazard tree mitigation and cyclic maintenance across National Capital Region parks and monuments. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 44 task orders worth $8 million, distributed across NPS regional offices, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Federal Highway Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two additional IDCs (INPC3450070011 and INP12PC20183) support specialty work, the former with $923 thousand across twelve orders and the latter with $917 thousand across nine orders. Representative awards include a $499.8 thousand delivery order for tree clearing along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway sections D and E (NPS, July 2023), a $495 thousand definitive small-business set-aside for woody debris and vegetation management at four Chesapeake and Ohio Canal aqueducts (NPS, September 2021), and a $344.6 thousand delivery order for tree removal at Jones Mill Pond Dam in Jamestown, Virginia (NPS, March 2023). Recent awards in 2026 include a $192.5 thousand landscaping maintenance contract at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial (small-business set-aside, April 2026) and a $41.85 thousand hazard tree removal at the National Mall and Memorial Parks (small-business set-aside, June 2026).

Activity has declined year over year—fifteen awards in 2022 to two in 2026 (the latter a partial-year snapshot as of mid-July)—signaling either reporting lag or reduced task-order velocity. Only four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing $698 thousand in recompete exposure, a relatively light cliff. The company holds a $950 thousand single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center running through March 2028, reserved for nationwide tree care and maintenance services on an as-needed basis, though invoiced activity on this BPA has not generated a significant award footprint relative to the NPS concentration.

Rtec Treecare's capability mix, as evidenced by NAICS and PSC codes, is tightly framed: 222 of 225 awards fall under Landscaping Services (NAICS 561730), with two awards in Support Activities for Forestry and one in Other Waste Collection. PSC coding confirms the same focus—145 awards coded as Housekeeping/Landscaping/Groundskeeping, 62 as Natural Resources Conservation/Tree Thinning, and the remainder scattered across minor categories. Work scopes include ISA Certified Arborist and licensed tree expert on-site requirements, compliance with ANSI and OSHA standards, stump grinding to specified depths, debris removal and off-site disposal, hazard mitigation, selective pruning, vegetation clearing along historic structures, and herbicide application. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio reflects field-oriented staffing: six labor categories rated for high-school education and one year of experience, with hourly rates ranging from $140.79 (D8 Personnel) to $379.05 (D1 and D2 Personnel), and no security-cleared roles. This pricing aligns with grounds-crew and supervisory arboricultural work rather than consulting or engineering labor.

Federal contracting history extends to at least 2001, though recent velocity suggests either project-completion cycles or market shift away from smaller task orders. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides on NPS work and full-and-open on GSA MAS delivery orders for other agencies. No subcontract footprint appears in the award record; all 225 awards are prime.

Management of Trees, Lawns, Environment, Insect and disease controls, Forestry Management, Water (Soil Erosion) control