Summitt Forests, Inc.

Summitt Forests, Inc., a for-profit small business headquartered in Phoenix, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor delivering manual and mechanical vegetation management, hazardous fuels reduction, and forest ecosystem restoration services to federal land management agencies across the western United States. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open procurements, with a recent activity footprint of 2,087 federal awards (100% as prime contractor) carrying combined potential value of $2.19 billion across forty-one customer agencies.

The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on hazardous fuels reduction and forest stewardship: hand thinning, lop-and-scatter operations, mastication, tree removal, slash piling and treatment, fireline construction, juniper and pinyon removal, prescribed fire preparation, and mechanical vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management properties. Representative prime work includes a $737,767 delivery order (September 2026) for combined manual thinning and piling at Elk Ridge and West Crystal 2 on the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado under the Region 02 Vegetation Management Services IDIQ; a $1,225,248 stewardship BPA call (June 2024) for the Lynx East project targeting forest health and hazardous fuels reduction across multiple cutting units on Prescott National Forest in Arizona; and a $2,046,641 delivery order (September 2025) for forest fuels maintenance including thinning, cutting, limbing, and hand piling in Cave Junction, Oregon. The vendor also performs salt cedar removal, mechanical thinning, track chipping, bar grubbing, noxious weed treatment, and post-fire hazardous fuels reduction across multiple landscapes and project scales.

Customer concentration is distributed across landscape-scale federal land stewardship. By award count, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (an outlier classification in the source data) accounts for 370 awards; more meaningfully, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (R6) leads with 142 awards, followed by the Rocky Mountain Region (R2) with 125 awards, the Pacific Southwest Region (R5) with 122 awards, and the Intermountain Region (R4) with 108 awards. By potential dollar value, the Bureau of Land Management National Office dominates with 41 awards carrying $1.07 billion combined potential—largely driven by multiple large indefinite-delivery contracts established in 2022–2023 for mechanical and manual hazardous fuel reduction across Oregon, Washington, and related regions. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 76% of combined potential dollars, indicating significant concentration among federal land management agencies. The Forest Service regions (R2, R3, R5, R6) collectively represent the second tier of major customers, each carrying $119.5–$198.1 million in combined potential value.

Summitt Forests holds a substantial parent-vehicle portfolio across multiple federal land management agencies. Named vehicles include: the Region 02 Vegetation Management Services IDIQ with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region ($100 million ceiling, established March 2024, 125 task orders); the R3 Fuels and Vegetation Vegetation Management IDIQ with the Forest Service Southwestern Region ($50 million, established April 2026, single award); the National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA with the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ($49.5 million, established March 2024, multiple award); the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region ($50 million, established April 2023, single award); the Pacific Southwest (PSW) Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region ($50 million, established October 2022); the Region 3 Southwest (SW) Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Southwestern Region ($50 million, established December 2022); the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) with multi-agency participation ($50 million, established April 2023); and multiple single-award mechanical and manual hazardous fuel reduction IDIQs with the Bureau of Land Management National Office for Central Oregon, Southwest Oregon, East Oregon, Northwest Oregon, and East Washington regions—each valued at $60–$145 million and established in 2022–2023. The vendor also holds smaller vehicles: the Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA ($50 million), the Intermountain Stewardship BPA ($50 million), the Region 1/R4 Timber Stand Improvement and Hand Fuels Treatments IDIQ ($18.75 million), the Region 1/R4 Mechanical Thinning IDIQ ($12.5 million), the Region 3 Hazard Tree Removal and Pruning IDIQ ($3 million, established December 2024), and the Auburn Project Lands BPA with the Bureau of Reclamation ($1.5 million, established September 2026). Collectively, these vehicles represent a diverse portfolio of mechanisms—single-award and multiple-award BPAs, large regional IDIQs, and mission-specific contract vehicles—positioning the vendor to issue task orders across Forest Service regions, Bureau of Land Management state offices, Fish and Wildlife Service refuges, and supplemental federal agencies.

Recent activity trajectory shows volatility: 56 awards in FY2022, rising to 82 in FY2023, then declining to 43 in FY2024 and FY2025, with 35 awards recorded in FY2026 (partial year). Award volume has not sustained FY2023 levels, though the absolute number of recent task orders reflects the scale of the underlying parent vehicles and the cumulative effect of large IDIQs and BPAs generating continuous ordering. A recompete cliff of $13.9 million in combined potential value spans the next twenty-four months across 46 awards, representing moderate exposure relative to the vendor's total portfolio and suggesting staggered rather than concentrated contract expiration risk.

On federal service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory (SCI-reportable awards above $150,000 threshold), Summitt Forests reported $23.9 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2025 data unavailable in source), with 32–43 FTEs annually across approximately 21–33 prime contracts per year and minimal subcontractor engagement. Median government-paid rates ran around $94.24 per hour, with senior labor pricing extending through $253.27 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 5% of total contractor hours, with five named subcontractors identified—indicating the vendor builds and executes substantially in-house. SCI is a strict subset of federal service revenue and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal work; these figures do not represent total enterprise revenue or full federal revenue.

The vendor operates as a prime contractor on virtually all awards (100% prime, 0.1% sub by count), performing approximately 94 percent of labor in-house with minimal subcontractor reliance. This posture reflects a delivery model grounded in direct crew and technical forestry staff rather than fee-based prime management. No named major subcontractors appear in the recent award footprint, supporting the characterization of Summitt Forests as a self-executing operator across vegetation management and fuels reduction work.

Summitt Forests has received federal grants as a recipient (reference to "Has Federal Grant Prime Awardees: Yes" in source metadata), though detailed grant award histories and sub-award roles are not fully enumerated in the source. A single federal grant sub-award record surfaces: a March 5, 2025 sub-award for tree cutting and slash treatment, indicating the vendor also performs work downstream of federal grant recipients.

The vendor's federal footprint is dominated by forestry stewardship and hazardous fuels reduction work, with NAICS concentration in Support Activities for Forestry (1,617 of 2,087 awards), and PSC concentration in Natural Resources/Conservation work streams—principally tree thinning (701 awards), forest tree planting (338 awards), and land treatment practices (263 awards). No evidence of federal grant primary awardee activity, major teaming relationships with other primes, or significant subcontractor footprint appears in the award portfolio; the vendor functions as a lean, in-house-labor delivery organization for manual and mechanical vegetation management services across western federal lands.