Schindler Fredrick J

Schindler Fredrick J, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and sole proprietorship based in Cook, Minnesota, delivers roadside and forest vegetation management services—brush mowing, road maintenance, and facilities painting—to the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region (Region 9) as a 100% prime contractor, operating exclusively under small business set-asides and full-and-open task orders on two regional Blanket Purchase Agreements.

The vendor's customer base is geographically and organizationally concentrated. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region accounts for 100% of the combined potential value across all awards ($6.5 million across 33 task orders); one additional USDA award carries $22 thousand and a single Army Corps of Engineers (St. Paul District) award carries $3 thousand. This concentration reflects Schindler Fredrick J's operational footprint: all material work is vegetation management and road maintenance on Superior National Forest and Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota, with performance locations at Ely, Cass Lake, Cook, and Duluth. Representative contract work includes a $21,698.50 Total Small Business Set-Aside purchase order (October 2026) for brush and mow operations across ten designated roads in the Gunflint and Tofte Ranger Districts covering approximately 62.62 centerline miles; a $49,525 Total Small Business Set-Aside BPA call (May 2026) for Chippewa National Forest roadside mowing; and a $55,854.54 full-and-open BPA call (July 2024) for Superior National Forest West Zone mowing and brushing.

Schindler Fredrick J holds two Blanket Purchase Agreements directly: the Northeast Zone Region 9 Roads BPA ($250,000 ceiling, awarded March 28, 2022, running through March 31, 2032) and the Northeast Region 9 Facilities BPA ($250,000 ceiling, awarded March 1, 2022, running through February 28, 2032). Under the Roads BPA, the vendor has executed 10 task orders totaling $483 thousand in combined potential value; under the Facilities BPA, eight task orders carry $200 thousand combined potential value. Work spans landscape services, highway and road maintenance under NAICS 541900 (Landscaping Services) and 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), and painting services under NAICS 238320 (Painting and Wall Covering Contractors).

Activity has contracted over the past five years—five awards in 2022 declining to two in 2025, with three awarded in 2026 to date—though the two awards completing in the next twenty-four months carry only $71 thousand combined potential value and present modest recompete exposure. The vendor operates with obligated dollars at 15% of combined potential value, consistent with BPA call patterns where task orders are phased. Schindler Fredrick J competes under Total Small Business set-asides on approximately 40% of task orders and under full-and-open competition on the remainder, reflecting its posture as an eligible small business rather than a 8(a) or HUBZone entity.