Vegetation Management Services LLC

Vegetation Management Services LLC, doing business as VMS, a HUBZone-certified small business headquartered in De Queen, Arkansas, operates as a prime contractor providing vegetation treatment, hazardous fuels reduction, mechanical thinning, mastication, and ecological restoration services to federal land management agencies. VMS is a woman-owned, veteran-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a limited liability partnership. The firm competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its prime footprint (100% of recent awards are primes; no subcontract activity in the source).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The top five funding agencies account for 76% of awards by count, led by the Army Corps of Engineers (65 awards, $5.4 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service Region 2 Rocky Mountain Region (4 awards, $100.6 million combined potential value). However, the dollars-by-value ranking diverges sharply: the Forest Service R2 anchors 71% of all potential value despite just two percent of award count, driven by a single $100 million indefinite delivery contract awarded March 15, 2024, for vegetation treatment services across Region 2 National Forests and Grasslands through March 13, 2029. The Forest Service R8 Southern Region is the second-largest customer by dollars ($28.6 million across 13 awards), while the Army Corps of Engineers dominates award volume but carries modest per-award ceilings.

VMS holds six named parent IDIQs and blanket purchase agreements. The $100 million Region 2 Rocky Mountain Region indefinite delivery contract (Region 02 Vegetation Management Services) is the largest vehicle; recent task orders under it include a $249,484 order awarded July 15, 2024, for mastication of 643 acres at Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and a $172,213.80 order awarded August 15, 2025, for hazardous fuels reduction and mechanical thinning in the Laramie, Wyoming area. A $7.5 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region), effective through February 28, 2028, has funded multiple task orders for vegetation management across six major Texas forest areas. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Little Rock issued a $4.561 million single-award IDIQ for general maintenance services at Millwood Lake Project Office (ultimate completion February 28, 2027), with two task orders issued to date: a $20,569.06 pre-priced maintenance order (May 9, 2025, completion August 31, 2025) and a $38,218.50 maintenance delivery order (September 22, 2025, completion February 28, 2026). An additional Forest Service Region 8 $400,000 single-award IDIQ for road maintenance and construction services across Mississippi national forests (May 29, 2024, completion April 30, 2027) and a $2 million multiple-award IDIQ for road maintenance and construction in Mississippi's North Zone (May 28, 2024, completion April 30, 2027) round out the named vehicles. The Army Corps of Engineers' oldest identified parent IDIQ, contract DACW0301D0014, has generated 47 task orders without detailed ceiling visibility in the source.

Activity shows volatility rather than trajectory: ten awards in 2022, six in 2023, sixteen in 2024, six in 2025, and four awards year to date through late September 2026 suggest a decline in recent quarters, though the $100 million R2 IDIQ award in March 2024 dominates the period. Only one award (combined potential value $266 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, meaning minimal recompete exposure and substantial pipeline stability from existing vehicles.

VMS competes exclusively as a prime contractor. The 174 awards in the source dataset are entirely prime work with zero subcontract activity recorded. The SCI dataset, which covers federal service contracts above $150,000, captured two prime records spanning FY2023–FY2024, showing $260 thousand in invoiced revenue in FY2023 across 0.2 FTEs with no FY2024 SCI activity. SCI-reported hourly rates on those records ran $530.82 per hour; this is a partial view and excludes goods, products, and purchase orders under the threshold. The vendor's award portfolio is dominated by landscape services (89 awards under NAICS 541320) and support activities for forestry (74 awards under NAICS 115310), reflecting the concrete work: mechanical thinning, mastication, brush removal, and mulching across national forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and Army Corps of Engineers recreation facilities. Representative work includes a $265,893 definitive contract awarded September 23, 2026, for precommercial thinning of 430 acres at Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana (Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, completion December 31, 2027); a $927,401 definitive contract for juniper mastication of 3,209 acres on Dakota Prairie Grasslands, North Dakota (Forest Service Region 1, awarded August 7, 2023, completion April 15, 2024); and a $143,000 purchase order awarded September 13, 2024, for cedar removal at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma (Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2, completion September 30, 2026).

I do Mulching/shredding, Mastication, tree trimming, chipping,and debris removal, mowing, and landscaping, fencing, sodding, janitorial, clean-up services, dirt-work, hauling, construction,and maintenance