The Davey Tree Expert Company

The Davey Tree Expert Company, a large employee-owned environmental services firm headquartered in Kent, Ohio, operates as a prime contractor delivering landscaping, vegetation management, tree care, and grounds maintenance services to the federal government across 80 distinct agencies. The vendor competes predominantly on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside certifications; all 942 recent awards carry no set-aside designations. The company's federal portfolio spans more than four decades, with 930 prime awards (99% of recent activity) covering arboriculture, integrated pest management, herbicide application, right-of-way vegetation management, snow removal, and specialized environmental consulting.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects its core market positioning in grounds maintenance and natural-resource management. The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine anchors the portfolio by combined potential value with 53 awards totaling $61.5 million, centered on invasive-species tree removal and forestry support work across multiple states. The Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration ranks second with 41 awards worth $36.1 million, concentrated on right-of-way tree work and integrated vegetation management across the Sierra Nevada region and broader western transmission corridors. By award count, the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service National Capital Region leads with 131 awards ($15.4 million combined), with GSA Region 8 contributing 61 awards worth $24.4 million for landscape and grounds maintenance at federal facilities in Colorado. The National Park Service National Office accounts for 114 awards worth $26.3 million. These five customer segments account for 51% of both award counts and combined potential value.

The GSA Multiple Award Schedule serves as the dominant vehicle, carrying 366 task orders worth $150.6 million combined potential value. Davey Tree also holds a $9.9 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with WAPA for right-of-way tree work and integrated vegetation management (Sierra Nevada region, July 2025–July 2029) and a $5 million single-award BPA with WAPA for integrated vegetation management services, herbicide application, and mowing (August 2022–August 2027). A GSA Region 8 indefinite-delivery contract valued at $4.3 million (April 2025–March 2027) covers landscape, grounds maintenance, and snow removal services at federal properties in Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Representative recent prime awards include a $1.2 million AFRH grounds maintenance and snow removal delivery order (February 2023), an $856 thousand USDA APHIS tree removal call order for Johns Island, South Carolina (May 2022), a $539 thousand WAPA right-of-way tree work call order in Kent, Ohio (September 2025), and a $168 thousand WAPA herbicide and integrated vegetation management BPA call in California (July 2026).

Activity levels have remained stable year over year, averaging roughly 17 awards annually from 2022 through 2025, with five awards recorded in calendar 2026 (as of mid-July). Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.6 million—a modest recompete exposure. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor; only 12 of 942 recent awards (1%) are sub-awards. Named subcontractor relationships include work under Emcor Government Services on FBI Central Records Complex facilities engineering (grounds maintenance and custodial services), San Rafael Rock Quarry on Sacramento River erosion and tree trimming, Grunley Construction on landscaping projects, BL Harbert International on FBI Academy health and wellness center landscaping, and Veterans Construction Coalition on Marine Corps Base Quantico parking work. These relationships are peripheral to Davey Tree's prime-focused delivery model.

Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022–FY2024 captures only a narrow slice of the vendor's federal services footprint: $909 thousand in invoiced revenue (FY2023 alone, with no SCI-reportable activity in FY2022 or FY2024) across 11.9 FTEs delivered under prime contracts. When SCI records were present, government-paid hourly rates ran from a 10th percentile of $20.92 per hour to a median of $60.92 per hour and a 90th percentile of $77.03 per hour, reflecting labor-cost optimization for landscape and grounds-maintenance work. The vendor named no subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime records, indicating in-house delivery. Davey Tree's federal work footprint is concentrated in NAICS 561210 (Landscaping Services, 623 awards) and PSC H21 (Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping, 511 awards), with secondary activity in natural-resources conservation and tree-thinning work. The corporate structure includes four named subsidiaries: S & S Tree And Horticultural Specialists Inc., Davey Resource Group Inc., Davey Tree Surgery Company, and AMY S. Greene Environmental Consultants Inc., the latter reflecting specialized environmental consulting capability. The vendor holds no federal grants in the source data; all activity is contract-based.