Sylvan Forest Products Inc.

Sylvan Forest Products Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based small business, manufactures softwood lumber, hardwood lumber, construction plywood, aircraft-grade plywood, fire-retardant plywood, treated wood items, wood piles, and specialty wood products exclusively for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as a prime contractor operating under a Total Small Business set-aside posture. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation with no subcontract footprint and competes 100% on set-aside vehicles, specifically the DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment multiple-award IDIQ (SPE8E622D0043).

Sylvan's federal portfolio is severely concentrated with a single customer. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment accounts for 2,631 awards (99% of all prime work) and $206.2 million in combined potential value (76% of the total $271.4 million portfolio). DLA Troop Support Hardware places an additional 1,906 awards worth $21.5 million, bringing the DLA ecosystem to approximately 98% of award count and 84% of dollars. All other agencies—the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($1 million across 60 awards), the Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($25.1 million across 6 awards), and other DLA sub-offices—collectively represent less than 2% of dollar value despite the presence of 10 distinct customer agencies.

Sylvan's work arrives exclusively through delivery orders against its primary $43 million, five-year IDIQ (SPE8E622D0043), awarded September 28, 2022, and running through September 27, 2027. The IDIQ carries a $22 million ceiling and is designated for total small business participation, with Sylvan competing as one of three to four small business awardees through competitive low-price, technically-acceptable evaluation. The contract supplies wood construction materials for military facility maintenance and engineering across the central United States and globally, with an estimated annual procurement value of $4.4 million. Delivery orders under the vehicle are firm fixed-price awards without set-aside designation at the task-order level, made through full and open competition, ranging from under $500 to approximately $42,500 per order. Recent representative orders include a $28,156.80 delivery order for softwood lumber and timber (July 2026), a $19,063.43 order for softwood dimension lumber (July 2026), and a $16,383.41 order for construction plywood (July 2026), all issued by DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years—142 awards in 2022, 123 in 2023, 150 in 2024, 124 in 2025, and 88 through July 2026. The recompete window for the next twenty-four months carries only $17 thousand in combined potential value at the delivery-order level; however, the underlying IDIQ vehicle itself (SPE8E622D0043) reaches its ultimate completion date of September 27, 2027, creating a substantial recompete opportunity in the near-to-medium term.

Sylvan's top parent vehicle by task-order count is an Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPM5E406D0253, 1,408 task orders, $11.2 million combined potential value), followed by an unspecified DBP contract (SP050005DBP01, 520 task orders), another Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPM5E406D0252, 404 task orders, $8.8 million), a fourth contract (SPE8E616D0004, 397 task orders, $11.1 million), and a fifth (SP050001DBP08, 394 task orders, $310 thousand). The source data does not clarify whether these are the same vehicle or separate vehicles; the dominant IDIQ (SPE8E622D0043) identified in the contract summaries may be one of these vehicles or may be tracked separately.

The vendor's award portfolio is dominated by two NAICS categories—Softwood Veneer and Plywood Manufacturing (1,985 awards) and All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing (1,819 awards)—with a long tail of Janitorial Services (816 awards), suggesting historical diversification into non-core business lines or data classification artifacts. By PSC code, Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials (3,179 awards) and Plywood and Veneer (1,394 awards) represent 96% of the portfolio by count. Combined obligated dollars total $86.8 million across all awards, representing 32% of combined potential value, indicating a significant pipeline of unexercised ceiling authority. Sylvan operates with no identified subcontracting relationships; the company performs all federal work as a direct prime supplier.

Since 1990, Sylvan has supplied standard and specialty constructions supplies, including most all grades and species of lumber, plywood, and mouldings, as well as special grades of fire-retardant and preservative treated lumber and plywood & more.