Sandford Logging, Inc.

Sandford Logging, Inc., a small business based in Rapid City, South Dakota, provides timber harvesting, road maintenance, culvert installation, vegetation management, and forest infrastructure support services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor under full-and-open and total small business set-aside vehicles. The company is a child entity of Forest Products Distributors, Inc., also headquartered in Rapid City.

Sandford Logging operates almost exclusively within the Rocky Mountain Region of the USDA Forest Service, which accounts for 38 of 42 total awards and $85.7 million of the combined potential value across all awards. The top five customer agencies cover 100% of the award footprint; four of the five are Forest Service regional offices, with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers' Omaha District representing the sole non-Forest Service customer (one delivery order valued at $24 thousand). The vendor's customer concentration is not merely deep but geographically singular — Rocky Mountain Region activity dominates both award count and dollar value, with Pacific Northwest Region (one $23 thousand culvert installation delivery order in 2023) and Intermountain Region (one $13 thousand award) representing marginal exposure outside the primary footprint.

Sandford Logging holds two primary indefinite delivery vehicles with Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region. A $20 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for road maintenance and forest support services, awarded July 1, 2025, and running through June 30, 2030, is designated as a total small business set-aside and covers snow removal, surface maintenance, drainage structure reconditioning, roadway vegetation maintenance, sign maintenance, and aggregate supply across Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. A second vehicle, a $50 million ceiling Blanket Purchase Agreement for timber harvesting, road maintenance, vegetation management, and stewardship services (awarded July 27, 2022, through July 30, 2032), operates under full-and-open competition and serves Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming across Arapaho-Roosevelt and Black Hills National Forests. Task order activity runs concentrated against these two vehicles and several smaller road maintenance and stewardship BPAs; the IDC 1267T020D0006 carries 12 task orders valued at $464 thousand, and BPA 12363N22A4037 carries 4 task orders valued at $5.8 million.

Representative work includes a $3.57 million BPA call for timber harvesting and stewardship on the Lost Stewardship project (awarded September 2023, running through March 2033), a $962 thousand BPA call for Triple R timber harvesting and land stewardship (awarded September 2024, running through June 2031), a $598 thousand BPA call for Ridgeback timber harvesting and road maintenance (awarded October 2025, running through September 2030), a $1.17 million BPA call for Pearl timber harvesting and road maintenance (awarded October 2025, running through September 2030), a $27 thousand delivery order for culvert removal, arch pipe installation, and road reconstruction in Hill City, South Dakota (September 2022, total small business set-aside), and a $23 thousand delivery order for magnetic clinker application to Boles Canyon roadway (August 2026, total small business set-aside).

Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years — three awards in 2022, two in both 2023 and 2024, four in 2025, and one year-to-date in 2026. Combined potential value across 42 prime awards stands at $85.7 million, with only $11.5 million obligated to date (13% of potential). The recompete cliff is minimal: one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $24 thousand in potential value. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no sub-award footprint is present in the source data. Work is classified primarily under NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) and 113930 (Support Activities for Forestry), with secondary NAICS 113210 (Logging) and PSC coding emphasizing road maintenance, forest/range improvements, and tree thinning and land treatment.