Sagebrush Advisors, LLC

Sagebrush Advisors, LLC, doing business as Sagebrush, is a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Golden, Colorado, that delivers protocol-level threatened species surveys and wildlife monitoring services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor on a 100% prime footprint. Sagebrush is structured as a limited liability partnership and holds SBA designations as a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business; it competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on the USDA Forest Service's Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA and smaller survey-specific indefinite delivery contracts.

Sagebrush's capability portfolio centers on endangered species inventory, monitoring, and habitat assessment work, with specialized depth in Mexican Spotted Owl surveys and raptor nest identification across western and eastern national forests. Recent representative work includes a $569,535 delivery order for Kaibab Spotted Owl surveys on the Kaibab National Forest under the 2022 MSO Inventory and Monitoring IDIQ; a $463,928 Carson National Forest Mexican Spotted Owl inventory and monitoring contract supporting forest restoration in the Camino Real Ranger District, New Mexico; a $221,426 Cibola National Forest MSO survey effort across four ranger districts supporting prescribed fire and forest thinning projects; a $90,500 Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Mexican Spotted Owl survey in Aurora, Minnesota; and a $40,267 raptor survey at Armstrong Creek, Colorado, all issued as BPA calls under the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA or task orders against the 2022 MSO IDIQ. The work spans protocol-level protected activity center monitoring, unsurveyed habitat inventory, and population monitoring conducted per Region 3 technical protocols.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the USDA Forest Service. The top five funding entities account for 96% of recent awards, with the Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) dominating at 33 awards and $6.4 million combined potential value, followed by Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) at 14 awards and $4.3 million, and smaller volume from Region 9 (Eastern Region), the Bureau of Land Management Utah Region, and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region). The dollar ranking diverges sharply — a single $50 million single-award Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded by the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions on June 14, 2023, anchors 82% of all potential value, while the 33 Southwestern Region delivery orders and BPA calls represent only 11% of dollars but constitute the operational heartbeat of the award portfolio.

Sagebrush holds two primary vehicle positions. The $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (period through March 6, 2033, no set-aside applied at the IDV level) generated seven task orders totaling $559 thousand and serves as the parent for multiple Forest Service regional BPA calls across Regions 2, 3, and 9. The 2022 Mexican Spotted Owl Inventory and Monitoring Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract (valued at $1.75 million, total small business set-aside, period through November 30, 2027) placed with Forest Service Region 3 anchors the deepest operational footprint — 22 task orders with $3.5 million combined potential value across national forests in Arizona and New Mexico. A secondary IDIQ vehicle under a different vehicle number (1267T018D0004) yielded 11 task orders for $509 thousand, and a one-off BLM Idaho Region purchase order for a King Mountain raptor survey established entry into the Department of the Interior.

Activity has slowed in recent years. Sagebrush received nine awards in 2022, eight in 2023, and only four in both 2024 and 2025, with a slight uptick to seven awards in 2026 to date. Nine awards with combined potential value of $822 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure for the vendor and modest recompete opportunity for competitors on the MSO IDIQ and LMIR BPA vehicles. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled approximately $1.8 million across FY2023–FY2024 (zero reportable SCI volume in FY2022), with roughly 2.7 FTEs fielded to deliver the work. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $168.71/hr, with senior labor reaching $375.84/hr. Sagebrush performs all delivery work directly — the SCI dataset shows zero sub-hours share across prime contracts, indicating a built-in delivery model with no reliance on subcontractor labor on these reportable federal service contracts.

Sagebrush currently conducts botanical services for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. For our private-sector clients, we conduct NEPA, wetland delineations and permitting, botanical surveys, raptor surveys, and TES species surveys and documentation.

Former projects include a wetland delineation and rare-plant inventory of Point Reyes National Seashore, botanical inventory of Wyoming DOD installations, among others. See out website for our Statement of Qualifications.