The Tree Guys

The Tree Guys, a for-profit small business headquartered in Blue Jay, California, delivers specialized forestry and fire management services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively, with 106 awards totaling $27.4 million in combined potential value. The vendor competes across full-and-open and total small business set-aside delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts, with set-asides characterizing roughly 20 percent of recent award volume by count and concentrated in the IDV base vehicles.

The company's capability footprint centers on tree removal, hazardous fuels reduction, vegetation control, equipment rental (chippers, skidders, and vehicles), faller crew deployment, and wildland firefighting support operations across western national forests and fire regions. Representative prime work includes a $95,898 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 for forestry management and vegetation control in Clovis, California (awarded August 2025, no set-aside), a $72,404 firm fixed-price delivery order also from Region 5 for hazardous fuels reduction in Clovis (awarded August 2025, no set-aside), a $23,974.50 total small business set-aside delivery order from Region 5 for tree removal and vegetation control in Solvang, California (awarded August 2026), and a $58,827.44 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 3 for fire mitigation and tree services in Phoenix, Arizona (awarded August 2025, no set-aside). The vendor holds four established indefinite-delivery contracts valued at $250,000 each across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10, awarded as total small business set-asides through the Virtual Incident Procurement system and running through 2030, covering chippers, faller crews, vehicle-with-driver services, and fire training modules for rapid resource deployment during peak wildfire seasons.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service ecosystem. The top customer by both award count and potential value is Forest Service Region 5—Pacific Southwest Region (33 awards, $21.2 million combined potential value), followed by the National Interagency Fire Center under Fire and Aviation Management (25 awards, $4.4 million), and the Federal Fire and Aviation Management program (29 awards, $1.2 million). These three customer centers account for 100 percent of award volume. Activity has grown from 12 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2024; recent trajectory shows only four awards in 2025 and five in 2026 year-to-date, suggesting a flattening or slight decline in near-term ordering velocity.

The Tree Guys places task orders against five named indefinite-delivery contract vehicles. The vendor's largest IDV by task-order volume is IDC AG9J61B177302 (18 task orders, $487 thousand combined potential value), followed by IDC 129J6120T7246 (16 task orders, $554 thousand), IDC 12569R23T7161 (11 task orders, $540 thousand), IDC 129J6118T7072 (11 task orders, $253 thousand), and IDC 12569R24T7258 (9 task orders, $340 thousand). Recent award ceilings on new IDV grants reached $750,000 (two vehicle awards to the National Interagency Fire Center in February 2026 for chipper and faller services in Regions 5 and 6 through 2029–2030). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime; there is no subcontract footprint in the source data. Work is performed across western states (California, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona) with administrative and operational presence distributed across field offices in the Pacific Southwest and Southwestern regions.