Tipton-Fsi JV II, LLC

Tipton-Fsi JV II, LLC, a self-certified HUBZone joint venture based in Indian Mound, Tennessee, operates as a prime contractor delivering grounds maintenance, facility operations, roads and trails maintenance, water and wastewater treatment, and environmental remediation services exclusively to the USDA Forest Service, Region 8 (Southern Region), supporting operations at the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Cadiz, Kentucky.

Tipton-Fsi JV II holds three single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Forest Service, all awarded December 21, 2022, and running through December 31, 2027, with combined ceiling values of $38 million across grounds and facility maintenance ($18 million), roads, trails, and environmental services ($10 million), and water and wastewater removal and treatment ($10 million). The vendor has issued 16 delivery orders totaling $66.7 million in combined potential value against these three vehicles, with $28.7 million obligated to date (43% of potential). All three IDCs were competitively awarded exclusively to HUBZone-certified small businesses, anchoring the vendor's entire federal posture to a set-aside category. Recent representative delivery orders include a $3.21 million grounds and facility maintenance order (March 2026, completion March 2027), a $664 thousand infrastructure maintenance order for grading, bridge repair, and erosion control (March 2026, completion December 2027), a $968 thousand water and wastewater treatment order (January 2026, completion December 2026), and a $1.04 million roads and trails maintenance order (January 2025, completion September 2026).

Customer concentration is absolute: all 16 awards serve the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region, representing 100% of awards and 100% of combined potential value. All work is performed at the Land Between the Lakes facility in Cadiz, Kentucky. Activity profile shows initial momentum in 2022 (six awards) followed by a sharp decline — two awards in 2023, one in 2024, then a recovery to three in 2025 and four in 2026. Nine awards with combined potential value of $16.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a significant recompete cliff for the vendor.

Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $2.1 million in FY2023 across 8.1 FTEs, with zero FY2024 reported invoicing. On federal services contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $196.55/hr, with senior labor pricing through $297.22/hr and entry-level rates from $66.26/hr. The vendor operates as a prime on all recorded awards, with no subcontractor engagement recorded in the SCI dataset (0% sub-hours share across prime records). Tipton-Fsi JV II is a child entity of Kellie W. Tipton Construction Co, Inc., a Subchapter S corporation and SBA-certified HUBZone firm also based in Indian Mound, Tennessee, which itself holds federal contract vehicles.