Toiler Forest Contracting, LLC

Toiler Forest Contracting, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Bruce Crossing, Michigan, provides timber marking, cruising, and volume estimation services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor operating exclusively under a single-award blanket purchase agreement running through November 2028.

The vendor operates solely as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint. Toiler competes entirely within the Total Small Business set-aside category — approximately half of its task orders carry explicit Total Small Business designations, while the remainder are unset-aside calls under the same single-award BPA. The company's entire customer base is the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region), which accounts for all 37 awards and the full $3 million in combined potential value across the portfolio. This extreme customer concentration reflects the vendor's exclusive reliance on a $2 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (contract 12363N24A4000) awarded October 1, 2023, and running through November 15, 2028, which serves as the master vehicle for all recent work. Nineteen task orders have been issued under this BPA, with combined potential value of $472 thousand.

Toiler's service portfolio centers on field-level forest stewardship: precise tree designation for timber harvests, timber cruising to estimate wood volumes, and preparation of timber sale areas across the Ottawa and Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests in Michigan and Wisconsin. Recent representative task orders include a $43,890 call (August 2026) for marking and cruising 450 acres and 3.07 million board feet at Cranberry Headwaters in Ontonagon, Michigan; a $41,898.80 call (July 2025) for an estimated 4,000-acre marking project in the Ottawa National Forest's South Zone; and a $35,508 call (July 2024) for hardwood improvement cuts and marking and cruising in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest's Lakewood-Laona Ranger District. Individual task orders range from $4,875.50 to $43,890 with firm fixed-price structures and completion dates aligned to specific forestry seasons and project scopes. Work is performed across multiple municipalities in Michigan and Wisconsin, including Watersmeet, Ontonagon, Lakewood, and Ironwood.

Activity has remained relatively flat across the past five years — ranging from six to eleven awards annually, with 2022 showing the highest volume at eleven awards — but has declined from that 2022 peak. Five awards with combined potential value of $125 thousand are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure limited to task order renewals under the existing BPA rather than full vehicle competition. As of the data snapshot, $974 thousand has been obligated across the portfolio, representing 33% of the $3 million combined potential value, indicating a pipeline of unobligated work extending into 2027 and 2028.