The F.a. Bartlett Tree Expert Company

The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, doing business as Bartlett Tree Experts, operates as a for-profit arboricultural contractor providing hazardous tree removal, vegetation management, and grounds maintenance to federal land management agencies, primarily as a prime contractor across 154 federal awards with a combined potential value of $19 million. The Stamford, Connecticut–based firm competes on full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations; awards carry no set-aside language across the recent prime footprint, and the vendor does not hold SBA certifications in the source material.

Bartlett's capability portfolio centers on hazardous fuels reduction, tree health assessment and treatment, vegetation removal, and grounds maintenance on federal lands. Representative work includes a $225 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Park Service Southeast Region awarded August 19, 2026, for vine removal and TRAQ-certified arborist pruning on 298 historic live oak trees at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in South Carolina, justified as sole-source under FAR 6.302-1 based on site-specific knowledge and irreplaceable historic resource requirements; a $61,058 contract from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for herbicide ground treatment at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey; and multiple $9,200 to $9,900 contracts from NPS National Office for winter hazard tree marking at Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office, which accounts for 88 awards and $8 million (42% of combined potential value) of the $19 million portfolio. The source data shows 75% coverage across five top customers: NPS National Office (88 awards, $8 million); U.S. Coast Guard (8 awards, $90 thousand); Department of the Navy Installations Command (8 awards, $211 thousand); NPS Southeast Region (7 awards, $372 thousand); and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Plant Protection and Quarantine (5 awards, $7.3 million). Bartlett places most work under two indefinite delivery contracts: INP15PC00231 with 80 task orders ($2.9 million combined potential value) and Federal Supply Schedule GS21F0037W with 11 task orders ($3 million combined potential value). Recent activity is sparse — one prime award each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — representing a sharp decline from four awards in 2023 and one in 2022. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: one award ($225 thousand) reaches ultimate completion before October 2028. Bartlett operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (99% of awards) and carries minimal subcontract exposure: one landscaping grounds-maintenance sub-award under T&M Service Group, LLC at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences effective January 2025.