Cole Surveying And Design, Pa

Cole Surveying And Design, PA, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Woodfin, North Carolina, delivers boundary surveys, easement delineation, topographic surveys, and site assessment work to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor exclusively under small business set-asides. The firm operates 100% as a prime contractor across 22 recent awards with a combined potential value of $51 million, competing predominantly under Total Small Business and small disadvantaged business designations across USDA Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service programs in the southeastern United States.

The vendor's customer base is narrowly concentrated within USDA. The Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) dominates the award count with 18 awards carrying $520 thousand in combined potential value, while the NRCS Southeast Region accounts for 2 awards worth $472 thousand combined. However, the potential-value ranking is anchored by a single $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) National Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded by the USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions on January 21, 2026, with performance extending through March 6, 2033. This ten-year multiple-award BPA positions Cole as a holder of a master contract vehicle for project management, inspection, natural resources consulting, data management, restoration, road work, and plant material production services across the Forest Service's national footprint.

Concrete capability work is grounded in post-disaster recovery and conservation easement surveys. Recent representative awards include a $285 thousand definitive contract from Forest Service Region 8 for Helene recovery site surveys across Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests (awarded June 2026, completion February 2027), a $312.9 thousand USDA easement boundary survey contract for ACEP-WRE parcels in South Carolina and North Carolina (awarded September 2023, completion extended to May 2025), and a $158.7 thousand NRCS Southeast Region legal boundary survey for Wetland Reserve Easement work in Hyde County, North Carolina (awarded September 2023, completion January 2025). Smaller task orders support trail recovery, recreation site topographic surveys, and right-of-way easement work under the Great American Outdoors Act and disaster supplemental funding. The LMIR BPA is expected to generate task orders supporting conservation easement work, recreation area development, and disaster recovery operations across regional Forest Service operations.

Activity has been episodic — two awards in 2022, five in 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — with only two awards (combined potential value $306 thousand) carrying ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor has established a track record executing USDA programs ranging from $6,250 to $314,643 in prior contract values before the $50 million LMIR vehicle award, demonstrating operational capacity to manage project complexity across the southeastern region's forest management and conservation priorities. The LMIR BPA's ten-year term positions Cole as a primary regional resource for Forest Service land management integrated services through 2033.