Skylight Forestry Inc.

Skylight Forestry Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Houston, Texas, provides field-based forest inventory data collection, common stand examinations, timber cruising, timber marking, and timber sale preparation services to the USDA Forest Service and other federal land-management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) operating predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing across NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes.

Skylight Forestry's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Forest Service's regional operations. The top five funding entities account for 97% of combined potential value, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) with 29 awards totaling $66.9 million in combined potential value and Region 9 (Eastern Region) with 38 awards at $7.8 million. The Washington Office Acquisitions arm anchors two awards worth $50 million—the single-award Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded September 12, 2023, with a ceiling through March 6, 2033, and the Forest Inventory and Analysis data-collection BPA awarded August 15, 2025, with a $7.5 million ceiling through December 15, 2029. Combined obligated dollars across the portfolio stand at $3.5 million against $147.2 million in combined potential value, reflecting the vehicle-heavy nature of Skylight's work under IDIQs and BPAs rather than executed delivery orders.

Recent representative contracts include a $328,583 purchase order from the Rocky Mountain Research Station for West Montana Plots forest inventory (awarded June 27, 2022), a $248,125 definitive contract for North Idaho forest inventory plots (August 3, 2022), a $184,000 BPA call from Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) for Wenatchee River and Methow Valley Ranger Districts common stand exams (September 26, 2022), and a $165,600 definitive contract with the Rocky Mountain Research Station for field-based vegetation sampling and forest inventory plots in western Montana (June 26, 2023). Recent 2025–2026 task orders include a $188,880 LMIR BPA call for common stand exam data collection on the Allegheny National Forest (July 1, 2026), a $59,796 LMIR BPA call for stand-level plot inventory on national forest land in Tennessee (September 19, 2025), and a $58,104 delivery order under the 2023 Common Stand Exams IDIQ for Upper Greenbrier exams in West Virginia (December 31, 2026).

The vendor holds 15 named parent vehicles, with the highest-volume delivery-order activity concentrated on two IDIQs under Region 9 (the 2023 Common Stand Exams IDIQ at $1.734 million and a timber-marking IDIQ at $259,000) and on multi-award BPA vehicles under the Southern Region. The Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA, the cornerstone of Skylight's federal-agency-wide reach, carries a $50 million potential value and is available to all federal agencies; four task orders totaling $272,000 have been issued under it to date. Additional IDV holdings include a $10 million Region 8 timber sale preparation IDIQ (awarded January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2026), a $7.5 million Florida timber support BPA (May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028), a $7.5 million Region 8 Kisatchie stand exam BPA (June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2028), a $5 million Region 8 common stand exam and timber-support IDIQ (May 15, 2023, through May 14, 2028), a $5 million Kisatchie timber sale preparation IDIQ (October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2029), a $3 million Region 3 timber sale prep IDIQ (October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2028, with Option Year 3 exercised through September 30, 2027), and a $2 million Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District forest inventory BPA (July 15, 2024, through July 14, 2029). Two new single-award BPAs awarded in late 2025—the South Carolina timber support BPA for $1 million (September 8, 2025, through September 7, 2030) and the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Atchafalaya Basin timber cruise BPA for $1 million (March 2, 2026, through March 1, 2031)—round out the recent vehicle footprint.

Activity has remained relatively stable, ranging between 9 and 18 awards per year over the past five years, with 96 total awards in the source data. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $491,000 reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data, and does not hold positions on government-wide contracts outside the Forest Service ecosystem. Its competitive posture is anchored to Total Small Business set-asides across the Forest Service's regional structure, with select full-and-open awards from research stations and the Army Corps of Engineers.