The Davey Tree Expert Company

The Davey Tree Expert Company, a large employee-owned environmental services firm headquartered in Kent, Ohio, provides arboriculture, vegetation management, right-of-way tree work, integrated pest management, and grounds maintenance services to over 80 federal agencies predominantly as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The company competes on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside certifications.

Davey Tree's federal footprint centers on landscaping and grounds maintenance, with core capabilities in tree removal, herbicide application, snow removal, emergency arboriculture, and environmental consulting. The company holds a $20 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded September 22, 2026, through September 21, 2031. Representative recent work includes a $9.9 million blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration for right-of-way tree work and integrated vegetation management across the Sierra Nevada region (July 2025–July 2029); a $4.38 million indefinite-delivery contract with GSA Public Buildings Service Region 8 for landscape, grounds maintenance, and snow removal in Denver and Boulder, Colorado (April 2025–March 2027); and a $5 million single-award BPA with WAPA for integrated vegetation management, herbicide application, and mowing (August 2022–August 2027). Concrete recent delivery orders include a $151,396.28 sidewalk repair order at the Byron White Courthouse in Denver (GSA PBS, September 2026), a $497,183.50 WAPA call for right-of-way brushing and herbicide application in California (August 2026), and a $79,570 tree preservation order at the Canandaigua Veterans Medical Center (VA, May 2026).

Customer concentration reflects positioning in natural-resource and facilities management. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 51% of recent awards, anchored by GSA Public Buildings Service National Capital Region (131 awards, $15.4 million potential value) and the National Park Service (114 awards, $26.3 million). By combined potential value, the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine dominates with 53 awards worth $61.5 million—driven by invasive-species tree removal contracts for emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle eradication. The Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration contributes 42 awards totaling $34 million, concentrated in Sierra Nevada and broader western transmission corridor maintenance. GSA Public Buildings Service Region 8 places significant dollars ($24.4 million) across 61 awards for facilities grounds work in Colorado.

Davey Tree's work rides predominantly on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), which carries 369 task orders worth $148.9 million in combined potential value. The company also operates under several agency-specific indefinite-delivery contracts: a $991 thousand IDIQ (DACA3101D0044) with 71 task orders, a Facilities Maintenance and Management vehicle with 54 task orders worth $13.8 million, and a $3 million vehicle (GS11P16YED7012) with 31 task orders. These vehicles anchor delivery of landscape maintenance, tree care, and environmental services across the federal government.

Award volume has remained relatively flat in recent years—27 awards in 2022, declining to 16 in 2023, recovering to 18 in 2024 and 20 in 2025. Only 9 awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. The company's federal work concentrates in NAICS 561210 (Landscaping Services, 626 awards) and PSC H21 (Housekeeping-Landscaping/Groundskeeping, 512 awards), with secondary work in support activities for forestry and environmental consulting.

Service Contract Inventory data captures SCI-reportable prime contracts spanning FY2023–FY2025, with $2.9 million in total invoiced revenue and a trajectory of 11.9 FTEs in FY2023, 4.0 FTEs in FY2024, and 14.4 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ranged from $21.95 per hour (10th percentile) to $75.02 per hour (90th percentile), with a median of $54.31 per hour, reflecting cost-optimized delivery for landscape and grounds-maintenance work. Davey Tree performs essentially all work in-house; SCI records show zero percent average sub-hours share across prime contracts, with only one named subcontractor reported. The company operates as a subcontractor to larger primes on a minimal basis (12 sub awards, 1% of portfolio), with recent sub work including grounds maintenance and snow removal for the FBI Central Records Complex (Emcor Government Services, prime) and landscaping for the FBI Academy Health, Wellness and Resiliency Center (BL Harbert International, prime).

The Davey Tree Expert Company operates through four named subsidiaries: S & S Tree And Horticultural Specialists, Inc.; AMY S. Greene Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Davey Resource Group, Inc.; and Davey Tree Surgery Company. These entities may anchor specific regional or functional capabilities, though the corporate structure supports delivery across the consolidated federal footprint under the parent company's prime contracts and vehicles.