Southwest Sawyers

Southwest Sawyers, a small for-profit corporation based in Hesperus, Colorado, provides hazardous tree removal, vegetation clearing, and forest management services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related federal land management agencies as a prime contractor, operating entirely under small business set-asides and full-and-open designations across regional forest service contracts and fire suppression indefinite delivery vehicles.

Southwest Sawyers operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's recent award activity spans 21 prime contracts and indefinite delivery contracts valued at $2.1 million combined potential value, with $882 thousand obligated to date. Capability work centers on hazardous tree cutting, vegetation clearing, trail maintenance, stump grinding, and debris removal across multiple U.S. Forest Service regions and fire suppression operations. Representative prime contracts include a $73,500 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) in July 2025 for tree removal and vegetation clearing in Wyoming; a $101,000 purchase order from Region 3 (Southwestern Region) in August 2022 for hazard tree removal on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest; and a $63,000 contract from the Forest Service Alaska Region in December 2021 for vegetation clearing across 8.5 miles of trail on the Chugach National Forest. More recently, Southwest Sawyers received a $55,032 delivery order from Forest Service Region 4 in August 2026 for forestry and vegetation management services in Price, Utah, completed within two weeks.

Customer concentration is heavily Forest Service–centric. The top five customer lines account for 71% of recent awards and 90% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollars with three awards (combined potential value $1.3 million) for faller services supporting fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) and Region 3 (Southwestern Region) split four awards each, with Region 4 carrying $265 thousand and Region 3 carrying $195 thousand combined potential value. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Park Service account for two awards each at lower volumes. Southwest Sawyers also serves the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) and Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) with smaller orders.

Southwest Sawyers holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center: a $750,000 multiple-award contract awarded in February 2026 for faller services across the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, and 4) running through June 2028, and a $250,000 multiple-award contract from June 2023 for faller services under the same regional scope. The vendor places task orders against three parent vehicles: IDC 1202SB23T7660 (three task orders, $210 thousand combined potential value), IDC 1284M820T7111 (three task orders, $94 thousand combined potential value), and IDC 1202SB26T8988 (one task order, $55 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has been modest and variable: five awards in 2022, then declining to two per year in 2023 and 2024, one award in 2025, and three awards to date in 2026. Award scope reflects primary NAICS coding under Support Activities for Forestry (15 awards) and Landscaping Services (6 awards), with PSC work split between Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (11 awards) and Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping (4 awards). Southwest Sawyers competes under Total Small Business set-asides on the majority of contracts but also wins full-and-open awards with no set-aside designation, particularly on Forest Service regional delivery orders. Place of performance spans the western United States (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Alaska, North Carolina, Virginia) with regional concentration in Forest Service Regions 3 and 4.