Skylight Forestry Inc.

Skylight Forestry Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Houston, Texas, delivers forest inventory data collection, common stand examinations, timber cruising, and timber sale preparation services to the USDA Forest Service and related federal agencies as a prime contractor across all recent federal award activity.

The vendor competes predominantly under small business set-asides—89 of 93 total awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with the majority designated as Total Small Business or competitive small business set-asides. Skylight Forestry operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and holds self-certification as a small disadvantaged business; the source does not identify minority ownership or other secondary SBA designations.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the USDA Forest Service, which accounts for the overwhelming majority of Skylight Forestry's portfolio. The Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8) dominates by potential value, carrying 29 awards worth $66.9 million combined potential value, while the Eastern Region (Region 9) leads by award count with 36 orders worth $7.7 million. The remaining customers—Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Northern Research Station, Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6), and Southwestern Region (Region 3)—account for most of the remaining activity. A single $50 million national Blanket Purchase Agreement for Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) through the Washington Office Acquisitions carries the largest single ceiling; this vehicle anchors the vendor's potential value share. The top five Forest Service regional and national customers account for 87 percent of awards and 97 percent of combined potential value, with a stark disparity: Region 8 holds roughly 45 percent of dollars on 31 percent of awards, while Region 9 represents 39 percent of awards but only 5 percent of dollars.

Skylight Forestry holds multiple IDIQs and BPAs as prime contractor. The $50 million LMIR national BPA (awarded September 2023, expires March 2033) is the largest vehicle in the portfolio and available to all federal agencies; it provides a broad national platform for land management and integrated resources services. Region-specific vehicles include a $7.5 million single-award BPA with the Northern Research Station for Forest Inventory and Analysis data collection across 24 states (awarded August 2025, expires December 2029); a $9.999 million single-award BPA for timber support services in Florida (awarded May 2023, expires April 2028); a $7.5 million BPA for Kisatchie National Forest stand exam inventory services (awarded June 2023, expires May 2028); a $5 million IDIQ for timber sale preparation on Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana (awarded October 2024, expires September 2029); a $5 million single-award IDIQ for common stand exams and related services in the Southern Region (awarded May 2023, expires May 2028); a $3 million IDIQ for Region 3 timber sale preparation in the Southwestern Region (awarded October 2023, expires September 2028); and several smaller regional vehicles with ceilings from $259,000 to $2.25 million supporting Eastern and Pacific Northwest regions. A $2 million Army Corps of Engineers BPA for forest inventory services in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri (awarded July 2024, expires July 2029) and a $1 million Corps of Engineers BPA for timber cruise services on the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System project (awarded March 2026, expires March 2031) represent non-Forest Service customer diversification, though their combined value is modest.

Representative prime work includes a $188,880 BPA call under the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA with USDA Forest Service Region 9 for common stand exam data collection on the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania (awarded July 2026); a $105,600 delivery order under the Timber Marking and Cruising and CSE IDIQ for a Common Stand Exam Quick Plot assessment in Salem, Missouri (awarded April 2026); a $328,583 purchase order with the Rocky Mountain Research Station for West Montana Plots forest inventory (awarded June 2022); a $366,295 BPA call with the Northern Research Station for FIA data collection across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and surrounding areas (awarded April 2022); and a $72,740 BPA call for common stand exams on the Angelina-Sabine National Forest in Texas (awarded November 2023). The vendor delivers data collection services using Forest Service common stand exam protocols (ExamSPC, FSVeg software), timber cruising methodologies, GPS field mapping, and plot-based inventory procedures to support sustainable forest management and conservation across national forests and grasslands.

Activity has been mixed. The vendor averaged 15 awards annually in 2022, peaked at 18 in 2023, then declined to 10 in 2024 and 10 in 2025, with 6 awards through mid-2026. Combined potential value across all 93 awards stands at $147.1 million, though obligated dollars are only $3.4 million (2% of potential value), reflecting the prevalence of unexercised ceilings on IDVs and BPAs. Only six awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $402 thousand), indicating limited near-term recompete exposure and a portfolio heavily anchored to longer-term vehicle ceilings rather than currently flowing task-order activity. The vendor holds no subcontractor awards in the source data; all 93 awards are prime positions.