Sierra Forestry Contractor LLC

Sierra Forestry Contractor LLC, a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business, delivers vegetation management, ecological restoration, and forest habitat improvement services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The company is organized as a limited liability company and sole proprietorship based in Dardanelle, Arkansas, competing 100% through small-business set-asides across its recent federal portfolio.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on forest management and vegetation control: chemical site preparation, herbicide application (foliar spray and cut-surface treatments), manual and containerized tree planting, pre-commercial thinning, midstory removal, invasive species eradication, and red-cockaded woodpecker habitat improvement. Representative task orders include a $84,000 vegetation management and ecological restoration call on the Forest National Forest in Mississippi (awarded June 16, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside, USDA Forest Service Region 8), a $36,000 manual pre-commercial thinning task order on the Bienville Ranger District in Mississippi (awarded September 16, 2025, Total Small Business set-aside, Region 8), and a $49,440 herbicide release task order on the Caney Ranger District at Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana (awarded March 1, 2024, Total Small Business set-aside, Region 8). Work is performed across National Forests in the Southern United States, with a recent expansion into Texas.

Customer concentration is absolute: the USDA Forest Service accounts for 100% of awards, with the Region 8–Southern Region carrying 18 awards valued at $25.5 million in combined potential value, and smaller activity through Region 9–Eastern Region (one award, $15 thousand) and unspecified Forest Service offices (two awards, $62 thousand). The vendor holds three primary blanket purchase agreements: a $10 million single-award BPA running through July 31, 2028 for vegetation management and wildlife protection services across Southern Region National Forests (awarded August 1, 2023, with eight recent task orders totaling $271 thousand); a $7.5 million single-award BPA expiring November 30, 2024 for Kisatchie National Forest services (awarded November 2, 2022); and a $7.5 million single-award BPA for Texas National Forests and Grasslands running through August 31, 2030 (awarded September 1, 2025). All three BPAs carry no set-aside designations at the vehicle level but consistently issue Total Small Business set-aside task orders.

Activity has been uneven: two awards in 2022, seven in 2023, eight in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 year-to-date. The combined potential value across the entire portfolio is $25.6 million, with only $604 thousand obligated to date (2% of ceiling). Two awards with a combined potential value of $121 thousand will complete within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Primary NAICS concentration is Support Activities for Forestry (20 awards), with secondary work under Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (1 award).

Forestry services