Three Stripes Contracting LLC

Three Stripes Contracting LLC, a woman-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Medford, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor delivering tree planting, wildfire suppression support, and forestry land management services to the U.S. Forest Service across western regions, with 100% of recent awards placed as prime contracts under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations.

Three Stripes is a Subchapter S sole proprietorship competing predominantly under total small business set-asides, with NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) anchoring the footprint. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on hand planting of tree seedlings in fire recovery and timber sale areas, ranging from 10,000 seedlings across 152 acres (Slater Fire, February 2026, $6,840) to 407,000–414,000 seedlings across 1,613 acres (Umpqua National Forest South Zone Fall 2025, $152,650). Representative awards span wildfire recovery zones across Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, California, and Idaho. Work also includes installation of shade cards, sentry shelters, and stake rows, as well as Type 2 firefighter crew deployment and water handling equipment provision for wildfire suppression operations. The vendor has planted between 97,000 and 414,000 seedlings per contract, with quality standards typically requiring 90–99 percent satisfactory planting and compliance with federal prevailing wage rates.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the U.S. Forest Service across eight regional and functional offices. The top-five funding entities account for 92% of awards by count: Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) dominates with 24 awards totaling $2.1 million combined potential value, followed by Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) with 4 awards and $565 thousand, the Forest Service Washington Office with 1 award anchoring $50 million in combined potential value, Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) with 2 awards and $233 thousand, and the National Interagency Fire Center with 1 award of $250 thousand. The potential-value ranking is distorted by a single large-dollar vehicle: the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded July 2, 2025, running through March 2033, under which only three task orders totaling $341 thousand have been placed to date.

Three Stripes holds three primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The $50 million LMIR BPA (multiple-award, no set-aside at vehicle level, July 2025–March 2033) supports professional services, natural resources restoration, engineering, and project management work under NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services). The National Interagency Fire Center's Type 2 firefighter crew IDC ceiling of $750 thousand (multiple-award, total small business set-aside, extended through July 2027) has generated seven delivery orders totaling $1.3 million since August 2023, all to Forest Service Regions 5 and 6. A second NIFC IDC for water handling services across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 carries a $250 thousand ceiling (total small business set-aside, expired June 2025). Two additional parent vehicles identified in the source — IDC 1202SB23T7675 with 13 task orders totaling $568 thousand and IDC 1202SC23T2406 with 7 task orders totaling $1.3 million — appear to be Forest Service regional delivery vehicles, though the source does not specify their ceiling values or remaining availability.

Activity has declined year over year: 13 awards in 2023, 9 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 8 awarded through mid-2026. Combined potential value across all 36 awards is $54 million, of which only $3 million (6%) has been obligated, reflecting the heavy weight of the undrawn LMIR BPA ceiling. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: three awards totaling $444 thousand reach ultimate completion by July 2027. The vendor holds no subcontracting positions and pursues no multi-agency or cross-sector customer base; exposure is monolithic to the Forest Service, with geographic concentration in the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest. Recent awards including $314.7 thousand (Willamette National Forest Middle Fork spring planting, March 2026), $152.6 thousand (Umpqua South Zone fall planting, September 2025), and $185.5 thousand (Laramie Ranger District, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, September 2025) exemplify the contract-value distribution across both set-aside and full-and-open procurement channels.