Viridescent Contracting, LLC

Viridescent Contracting, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and American Indian-owned limited liability company based in Bellevue, Nebraska, operates as a prime contractor in native plant propagation, seed collection, vegetation management, and hazardous fuels reduction for federal land management agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and holds a $73 million combined potential-value prime portfolio across 25 recent federal awards, with no sub-award exposure.

The company's capability footprint centers on concrete ecological restoration and forestry services. Viridescent specializes in cone and seed collection for native plant propagation and wildfire reforestation (including western white pine, lodgepole pine, and mixed conifer seedling collection); mechanical and manual vegetation clearing, mastication, and hazardous fuels reduction; tree planting and reforestation across burned areas and restoration zones (236,000 conifer seedlings planted on the Lincoln National Forest, 115,000 seedlings on Apache-Sitgreaves); and ancillary forestry field work including tree felling, sanitation, fire suppression infrastructure maintenance, and greenhouse seedling thinning. Representative work includes a $4.5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded January 12, 2024, by the U.S. Forest Service Northern Region to collect and deliver native plants and seeds for wildfire reforestation under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (with task orders including $19,552.50 for western white pine cone collection and $6,980 for lodgepole pine collection); a $49.5 million multiple-award National Hazardous Fuels Reduction Blanket Purchase Agreement established March 29, 2024, by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for mechanical clearing, chemical application, and hazardous fuels reduction across the contiguous United States and Guam (recent calls include a $264,800 fuel break and fire suppression order for Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma and a $139,144.50 mowing and vegetation-clearing call for James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii); and a $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded September 1, 2025, by the U.S. Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) for vegetation management across Texas National Forests.

Customer concentration is highly skewed toward Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture regional offices. The top five customer entities by potential value account for 99% of combined potential-value dollars and are anchored by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (2 awards, $49.6 million potential value, driven by the $49.5 million National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (2 awards, $17.5 million), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (3 awards, $4.6 million). By award count across the top five customer nodes, coverage is only 44% — indicating a long tail of smaller awards to regional offices across both agencies. The vendor works with 16 distinct federal customer agencies total, spanning Forest Service regional offices (R1, R3, R4, R8), Fish and Wildlife Service regions (1, 2, 3), the Bureau of Land Management, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Army, the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and related land-management arms of the Department of the Interior.

Viridescent holds four named parent vehicles: the $4.5 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with Forest Service Region 1 (4 task orders, $121 thousand combined potential value under visible awards), the $49.5 million National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA with Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (4 visible task orders, $531 thousand combined potential value), the $7.5 million Vegetation Management BPA with Forest Service Region 8, and a $10 million Vegetation Management BPA with Forest Service Region 8 established August 1, 2023, through July 31, 2028. Task-order activity against these vehicles is modest by dollar magnitude in the visible award set but reflects a typical subcontracting model for regional forestry work.

Activity has grown from 2 awards in 2022 to a peak of 8 awards in 2024, declining slightly to 7 in 2025 and 1 award year-to-date in 2026. Only 2% of the $73 million combined potential value has been obligated across all awards to date, indicating the portfolio is heavily skewed toward ceiling values on long-term IDCs and BPAs rather than currently invoiced work. Five awards carrying a combined potential value of $594 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete across small-dollar individual task orders rather than large vehicle rollovers. The vendor competes exclusively under small business set-asides (12 awards under NAICS 115310 for Support Activities for Forestry, 6 under Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products, 3 under Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) and has zero sub-award activity in the source data, indicating a pure prime posture focused on direct Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service relationships in western and southern regions.