Sprout Forestry Incorporated

Sprout Forestry Incorporated, doing business as Sprout Forestry Inc., a minority-owned, SBA 8(a) certified small disadvantaged business based in Central Point, Oregon, delivers comprehensive forestry and land restoration services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across the western United States, with a portfolio centered on tree planting, vegetation management, fuels reduction, and ecological restoration supporting wildfire risk mitigation and forest health objectives.

Sprout Forestry operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company holds active SBA 8(a) certification expiring April 1, 2030, and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its portfolio, though a material share of recent task orders were awarded full-and-open. Primary NAICS coding aligns with 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry); work scope spans hand and mechanical tree thinning, planting operations, mastication, fuels treatment, prescribed burn preparation, animal damage control installation, and associated silvicultural services.

Customer concentration is highly concentrated in the Forest Service. The top five customer agencies account for 79% of recent awards by count and 89% by potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates: R1-Northern Region (109 awards, $53.6 million combined potential value) and R6-Pacific Northwest Region (24 awards, $59.1 million) anchor the portfolio, followed by R4-Intermountain Region (26 awards, $5.3 million), R5-Pacific Southwest Region (12 awards, $21.5 million), and the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (3 awards, $50.1 million covering the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA). The Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region contributes $42.8 million across nine awards. Nineteen distinct customer agencies have issued work to Sprout Forestry, indicating some diversification beyond Forest Service, though the regional Forest Service offices represent over 85% of dollars.

Sprout Forestry maintains an extensive portfolio of parent vehicles totaling over $190 million in cumulative ceiling value. Named vehicles include a $50 million Pacific Northwest Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service R6 (through October 2032); a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (through March 2033); a $40 million BLM Western Oregon Silviculture MATOC (through July 2028); an $18.75 million R1/R4 Timber Stand Improvement and Hand Fuels Treatments contract (through September 2026); a $20 million Manual Fuels Reduction IDIQ across Northern California forests (through July 2027); a $12.5 million R1/R4 Mechanical Thinning IDIQ (through September 2026); a $7.6 million Western Montana Forests Pod tree planting IDC (through February 2031); a $3.7 million R1 Forestry Services IDC (through December 2026); and a $2.5 million Kootenai National Forest tree planting IDC (through March 2031). Multiple smaller IDIQs and BPAs in the $4–5 million range provide additional capacity across R2, R3, and other regions. The top five parent vehicles by task order volume are indefinite delivery contracts 12034320D0025 (30 task orders, $2.5 million), 1284LM22D0042 (30 task orders, $5.6 million), the LMIR BPA (21 task orders, $2.9 million), 1284LL21D0001 (13 task orders, $1.2 million), and 1284M819D0031 (13 task orders, $1.4 million).

Activity has grown and then moderated: Sprout Forestry received 36 awards in 2022, 39 in 2023, 46 in 2024, 38 in 2025, and 22 so far in 2026 (through September 1). The combined potential value of all 230 awards is $255.8 million; obligated dollars total $28 million (11% of potential value), indicating a substantial backlog of unfunded or partially funded delivery orders typical of federal forestry task-order contracting. Twenty-three awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $5.1 million—a modest recompete exposure, reflecting the company's reliance on parent vehicles with multi-year terms. Representative work includes a $1.336 billion Castle Peak mastication BPA call (August 2024, Forest Service National Office, ultimate completion August 2025); a $1.156 billion Jordan Mechanical Fuels Reduction BPA call (September 2025, FS R6, completion July 2027); a $955 thousand Boise National Forest North Zone small tree hand thinning delivery order (July 2024, FS R4, completion November 2025); a $962 thousand manual brush and hardwood cutting purchase order for BLM Oregon-Washington Roseburg District (September 2022, completion June 2024); and a $905 thousand Medford silviculture delivery order under the BLM Western OR Silviculture MATOC (February 2026, completion February 2027).

Service Contract Inventory data presents a partial view of Sprout Forestry's federal services activity. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $2.4 million across nine records spanning FY2023–FY2024 (no SCI-reportable records in FY2022). The company invoiced $513 thousand in FY2023 across 3.5 FTEs and $1.9 million in FY2024 across 18.4 FTEs, indicating rapid scaling of federal services labor during that period. SCI does not capture the company's goods sales (seedlings, equipment), micro-purchases, or non-federal revenue; it reflects only prime service contracts above the $150,000 threshold. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $50/hr, with senior labor and supervisory positions priced through $164/hr and entry labor at approximately $45/hr. Sprout Forestry reported zero sub-hours share on its SCI prime contracts, indicating the company built delivery teams internally rather than routing work to subcontractors on those reportable engagements.

Sprout Forestry operates as a prime contractor across the entire portfolio, with no sub-award activity present in the source data. The company builds its own delivery teams, mobilizes equipment and labor crews directly, and does not appear in the federal contracting ecosystem as a feeder to larger primes. This posture aligns with the forestry industry structure, where small disadvantaged businesses in this space typically field hand crews and equipment-operating crews for direct execution of field work rather than serve as integrators or subcontractors.

Teaming arrangements are not present in the source data. Sprout Forestry has won and executed all 230 awards as a sole prime, with no named subcontracts visible in the federal contract or sub-award records reviewed.

Sprout Forestry's award footprint is highly specialized and geographically concentrated. The company has established itself as a primary regional contractor for Forest Service Regions 1 and 6 and the BLM Oregon-Washington district. Over 100 of 230 awards (48%) have come from FS R1 alone, with the Northern Region constituting Sprout Forestry's largest and most diversified customer base across multiple ranger districts and national forests. R6 (Pacific Northwest) represents the second-largest regional footprint by dollar value, anchored by the $50 million Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA. Work performs across Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado, with the greatest activity concentration in the Northern Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. The company's expertise in hand tree planting, hand and mechanical fuels reduction, and mastication operations across federal lands makes it well-positioned for continued work under existing parent vehicles and for new solicitations aligned with Forest Service and BLM wildfire mitigation and forest restoration priorities.