Tadpole Cattle Co Inc.

Tadpole Cattle Co Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, operates exclusively as a prime contractor providing off-range pasture services and animal holding facilities for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program. The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open federal procurements rather than set-aside categories; recent awards span both non-set-aside delivery orders and one total small-business set-aside IDIQ awarded in August 2025.

Tadpole's customer footprint is nearly monolithic: the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office accounts for 18 awards representing $740.9 million of the vendor's combined $745.6 million potential value (99% of portfolio). The Department of the Army holds six awards and a separate BLM entity holds five awards, but these represent marginal increments to BLM's dominance. Across recent awards, the vendor has no subcontractor relationships and operates all work from its Bartlesville facility.

The vendor's primary vehicle position sits on the Off-Range Pasture Services–Wild Horse and Burro Program multiple-award IDIQ (RFP 140L0125R0001), a $700 million ceiling contract with a total small-business set-aside, awarded August 22, 2025, and running through June 30, 2030. Three delivery orders have been issued to date: a $10,000 minimum-guarantee order (August 28, 2025), a $722,190 order effective through June 30, 2026 (December 18, 2025), and a $1.5 million order extending through June 30, 2030 (August 21, 2026, the most recent award in the source). Tadpole also holds positions on older Department of the Army IDIQs (140L0120D0010 carrying ten task orders worth $10.4 million combined) and legacy BLM pasture contracts. Award velocity has remained flat—two to three awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with one award recorded in 2026 to date.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC profile reinforces its single-function market: twenty awards fall under NAICS 115210 (Support Activities for Animal Production), and twenty-four awards carry PSC F016 (Natural Resources/Conservation–Wildhorse/Burro Control), with eight additional awards in veterinary and animal-care support. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $745.6 million, though only $36.5 million (5% of potential) has been obligated to date, reflecting the IDIQ ceiling structure and the early stage of the largest contract award. Tadpole's entire federal portfolio is built around pastureland provisioning and livestock management infrastructure for a single customer mission and agency.