Vegetation Assessment Services LLC

Vegetation Assessment Services LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Fargo, North Dakota, provides field-based forest inventory and vegetation sampling services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company operates as a limited liability partnership and competes under small-business set-asides on definitive contracts and purchase orders, with its primary vehicle — a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement — carrying no set-aside designation.

The vendor's customer footprint is concentrated entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split between two regional research stations. The Forest Service Northern Research Station accounts for 2 awards with $9.1 million in combined potential value, anchored by a $9 million ceiling single-award BPA established May 17, 2023, running through May 16, 2028. The Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station accounts for 2 awards with $147 thousand in combined potential value. All four recent awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and related forestry R&D codes.

Vegetation Assessment Services delivers field-based vegetation sampling, forest inventory analysis, and plot location and monumenting work under the Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program, which operates across 24 states in the Northern Research Station region. Representative work includes a $86,872.50 BPA call (March 1, 2026) for Forest Inventory and Analysis data collection in New Hampshire P2, with completion scheduled February 29, 2028; a $75,550 total small-business purchase order (July 15, 2025) covering vegetation sampling across 42 Idaho inventory plots through September 30, 2026; and a $71,900 small-business definitive contract (September 1, 2023) for forest plot inventory work in northern Idaho and Washington. The vendor maintains minimum two-person field crews and provides personnel with at least three years of experience in intermountain west vegetation survey and forest inventory work.

Activity remains nascent — two awards in 2023, one in 2025, one in 2026 — with $162 thousand in combined potential value facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure on the Rocky Mountain station work. The vendor holds no subcontract footprint and no additional parent vehicle positions.