Rue Forest Contracting, Inc.

Rue Forest Contracting, Inc., doing business as Rue Forest Contracting, is a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small business based in Molalla, Oregon, that supplies specialized forestry management, wildland firefighting, and invasive species control services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor across 162 recent awards totaling $25.7 million in combined potential value. The company operates exclusively as a prime, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on its smaller purchase orders and BPA calls, though recent larger IDCs and IDVs carry no set-aside designation.

Rue Forest Contracting's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region (USDA-FS R6), which accounts for 93% of awards by count (95 awards, $14 million combined potential value) and 97% of combined potential value across all customers. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington accounts for 38 awards ($1.8 million), with the USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (7 awards, $850 thousand), BLM National Office (6 awards, $832 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers Portland District (5 awards, $333 thousand) rounding out the active customer set. This concentration reflects deep regional specialization in Pacific Northwest forestry and emergency response operations.

Rue Forest Contracting's capability footprint spans invasive species and weed treatment, wildfire suppression and firefighter crew deployment, cone collection and seed production at federal seed orchards, tree planting and reforestation, herbicide application, and post-fire recovery vegetation management. Representative work includes a $407.5 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from BLM National Office (awarded July 2024) for cone collection and handling at the Walter Horning and Travis Tyrrell Seed Orchards; a $7.5 million Type 2 firefighter crew deployment BPA (awarded May 2025, extended through July 2027) from USDA-FS for National Type 2 wildland firefighter crews across USDA Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10; and a $206 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from BLM Oregon-Washington (awarded May 2026) for cone collection, bagging, transport, and handling across multiple conifer species.

Rue Forest Contracting holds five primary parent vehicles. The $5 million USDA-FS R6 Blanket Purchase Agreement for invasive weed treatments (no set-aside, awarded August 2021, effective through December 2025) anchors the bulk of the company's work, with 16 BPA calls issued totaling $415 thousand. The newly awarded $7.5 million Type 2 BPA for firefighter crew deployment (May 2025, extends through July 2027) represents significant growth into emergency response staffing across multiple regions. Two smaller IDCs with the National Interagency Fire Center—one valued at $250 thousand (awarded February 2026, extends through May 2030) and another at $250 thousand (awarded June 2022, expired June 2025)—provide water handling equipment and fire suppression resources. An IDC valued at $250 thousand with the Forest Service (awarded May 2025, extends through July 2027) supports Type 2 crews. These vehicles generated 14, 12, and 6 task orders respectively in the source window.

The top NAICS concentration reflects operational focus: 142 awards under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 561730), 17 awards under Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (NAICS 113210), with the remainder scattered across soil preparation and conservation work. The PSC footprint mirrors this, with 61 awards for forest-range fire suppression and presuppression (PSC T700 natural resources), 32 for seed collection and production, and 32 for other forest and range improvements.

Activity has remained relatively flat over five years (9 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 9 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 4 in the early months of 2026), with combined dollars obligated at 22% of combined potential value ($5.8 million obligated against $25.7 million potential), indicating task-order-driven spending against standing vehicles. One award faces recompete in the next twenty-four months with $206 thousand combined potential value—primarily the cone-collection purchase order from BLM Oregon-Washington set to complete October 31, 2026.