Tree Care Specialists Of Southern Ohio LLC

Tree Care Specialists Of Southern Ohio LLC, doing business as Tree Care Specialists, is a small disadvantaged, woman-owned limited liability company based in Gallipolis, Ohio, that provides hazardous tree removal, vegetation management, landscaping, and grounds maintenance services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor operates across 49 prime awards—100 percent of its federal footprint—with combined potential value of $7.6 million and combined dollars obligated of $3 million (40 percent of potential value). The company competes predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations rather than restricted 8(a) vehicles.

Tree Care Specialists' capability portfolio centers on forestry and environmental stewardship work: hazardous tree removal, tree pruning and limb trimming, stump grinding, vegetation management near power transmission corridors, invasive species removal, and facilities landscaping including mowing, hedge trimming, mulching, and snow removal. Representative work includes a $159,051.90 total small business set-aside definitive contract from USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for removal, transportation, and loading of 534 Emerald Ash Borer-infested trees from Wisconsin counties to Michigan for biocontrol production; a $450,000 single-award IDIQ from the Army Corps of Engineers for tree maintenance and hazardous tree removal at Coralville Lake, Iowa, with two task orders totaling $150,790.32 issued to date; and a $2.5 million single-award BPA from the Western Area Power Administration (Department of Energy) for vegetation management and tree trimming services across WAPA transmission corridors and federal properties through February 2029. The company holds active GSA Schedule contract authority, with 24 labor categories spanning clerical, equipment operation, safety, and project management roles at hourly rates from $38.96 to $138.05 (high school through bachelor's education, no security-cleared positions offered).

Customer concentration runs strong in natural resource and environmental stewardship agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 78 percent of combined potential value: the Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration anchors the portfolio at $2.5 million (1 BPA); USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine holds 11 awards worth $1.3 million across emerald ash borer harvesting contracts; the Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast Region places 10 awards valued at $1 million for hazardous tree removal at historic sites and recreation areas; the Army Corps of Engineers holds 3 awards worth $601 thousand for lake and waterway maintenance; and the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service carries $500 thousand for GSA Schedule labor call-outs. By award count, APHIS PPQ and NPS Northeast Region dominate (21 of 49 awards, 63 percent concentration), reflecting recurring vehicle-dependent relationships for seasonal and ongoing tree care at Gettysburg National Military Park, Cape Cod National Seashore, and other park properties, and for APHIS's multi-year emerald ash borer biocontrol production program across Wisconsin.

The vendor holds five primary parent vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (8 task orders, $3.2 million potential value) serving multiple agencies for grounds maintenance and tree care; a $450,000 single-award IDIQ with the Army Corps of Engineers for Coralville tree maintenance (W912EK24D0005, 2 task orders); a $450,000 single-award IDIQ with National Park Service Northeast Region for Gettysburg hazardous tree removal (140P4222D0002, 4 task orders, $203 thousand potential value); a $293,088.72 single-award IDC with the Department of Veterans Affairs for Alexandria VAMC landscaping services (issued September 2025 with a five-year ordering period through September 2030); and a $250,000 BPA with the Army Corps of Engineers New England District for mechanical vegetation removal in Connecticut (awarded March 2025, runs through March 2028). The BPA and IDIQ vehicles are single-award holds with dedicated ordering authority, reducing competition exposure but exposing recompete risk at expiration.

Activity has remained flat across the past five years, averaging 5.4 awards per year (2022–2026), with 8 awards issued in both 2024 and 2025 and only 1 award to date in 2026. Three awards carrying combined potential value of $126 thousand complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure concentrated in NPS Northeast Region work. The vendor has not pursued federal sub-award roles; all 49 awards are primes. Federal obligated spending ($3 million) lags potential value ($7.6 million) by 40 percent, suggesting significant task-order or option-period value remains unfunded across the existing vehicle portfolio, particularly the $2.5 million WAPA BPA and the newly established VA landscaping IDC.

Tree Removal, Tree Trimming, Tree Thinning, Stump Grinding, Brush Removal, Brush Chipping, Land Clearing