Viridescent Contracting, LLC

Viridescent Contracting, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and American Indian-owned LLC based in Bellevue, Nebraska, provides wildfire hazard mitigation, vegetation management, and ecological restoration services to the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor exclusively, with no subcontract footprint. All 32 federal awards in the recent portfolio are primes, competing entirely under total small business set-asides or full-and-open designations against small business opponents.

Viridescent's capability portfolio centers on mechanical fuels reduction (mastication, mowing, and grubbing), hazardous fuels mitigation, native plant and seed collection for reforestation, tree planting and removal, and habitat restoration across western and national forest lands. Representative work includes a $455,328 BPA call from DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 (August 2026) for mechanical fuels reduction at Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in Texas; a $264,800 task order from FWS Region 2 (June 2024) for fuel break and fire suppression work at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma under the National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA; a $4.5 million indefinite delivery contract from USDA Forest Service Northern Region (January 2024) for native plant and seed collection across Regions R1, R2, and R4 under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; and a $7.5 million BPA from Forest Service Southern Region (September 2025) for vegetation management and biological services across six National Forests and Grasslands in Texas.

Customer concentration is anchored by two primary vehicle holders. DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 holds the National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024–2029 $49.5 million multiple-award BPA (ultimate completion March 31, 2029), which dominates the dollars and accounts for 2 awards with $49.6 million combined potential value; seven task orders under this vehicle carry $1.2 million in combined potential value. USDA Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) anchors $17.5 million in combined potential value across two awards—the $7.5 million vegetation management BPA (September 2025 to August 2030) and a $10 million single-award NFMS vegetation management BPA for Mississippi (August 2023 to July 2028). The top five funding offices by combined potential value account for 98% of dollars. Beyond the two regional powerhouses, DOI Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service Northern Region, and Forest Service Southwestern Region place smaller dollar volumes across specialized seed collection and reforestation task orders.

Viridescent holds a multi-year vehicle portfolio spanning four parent IDVs or BPAs with significant remaining optionality through 2029–2030. The National Hazardous Fuels Reduction 2024–2029 BPA ($49.5 million, multiple-award) and the Forest Service Northern Region native plant and seed collection indefinite delivery contract ($4.5 million, multiple-award, IIJA-funded) are the primary ordering vehicles. The Forest Service Southern Region vegetation management BPA for Texas ($7.5 million, single-award, September 2025 launch) and the Mississippi vegetation management BPA ($10 million, single-award, running through July 2028) represent recent vehicle wins or exercises. Across these vehicles, recent task-order activity clusters on mechanical fuels reduction calls from FWS across Regions 1, 2, and 3 and cone/seed collection orders from Forest Service regions under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law authority.

Activity is balanced and consistent across the past five years—2 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 8 in 2026—with no cliff risk. Twelve awards (combined potential value $1.6 million) complete in the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The source portfolio is skewed toward vehicle ceilings rather than obligated spend; combined obligated dollars stand at $2.3 million against $74 million in combined potential value (3% burn rate), indicating substantial unexercised capacity across the BPA and IDC vehicles. NAICS concentration is tight—Support Activities for Forestry (code 115310) represents 19 of 32 awards, with Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products accounting for 6 additional awards. PSC concentration clusters on natural resources and conservation work: seed collection/production (7 awards), forest and range improvements (3 awards), and fire suppression/presuppression (2 awards).

Viridescent operates across 18 distinct federal customer agencies, but the portfolio is highly concentrated in Interior and Agriculture field organizations. All work is performed at or near work sites across the western United States, Guam, Hawaii, and select Midwest and Northeast locations (Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia, New Mexico, Maine). The vendor competes exclusively under small business set-asides characteristic of Forest Service and FWS vegetation management and hazardous fuels reduction work.