Wesley D Winslow

Wesley D Winslow, doing business as American West Forestry, is a small business forestry contractor that operates as a prime on federal timber sale preparation, forest inventory, and vegetation sampling work for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and organized as a Subchapter S limited liability company, American West Forestry specializes in timber marking, timber cruising, common stand examinations, forest inventory and analysis fieldwork, and timber sale preparation services across multiple national forests and grasslands in support of sustainable forest management and land stewardship.

The vendor's customer footprint is heavily concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which accounts for 90% of recent awards. The Forest Service's Southern Region (Region 8) dominates by award count (31 awards, $35 million combined potential value), followed by Forest Service general (18 awards, $623 thousand), the Eastern Region (Region 9) (17 awards, $7.7 million), and the Rocky Mountain Research Station (11 awards, $1.4 million). By potential value, however, a single $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement through Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions for Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) anchors the portfolio, awarded February 8, 2024, through March 6, 2033. The vendor holds six other major parent indefinite delivery vehicles: a $5 million Kisatchie National Forest Timber Sale Preparation Services IDIQ (Forest Service Region 8, awarded October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2029, Total Small Business set-aside), a $7.5 million Western Oregon Stand Exam IDIQ (Bureau of Land Management, awarded May 15, 2024, through February 28, 2029), a $3 million Region 3 Sale Prep IDIQ (Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern Region, awarded October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2028, Total Small Business set-aside), a $1.11 million 2023 Common Stand Exams IDIQ (Forest Service Region 9 Eastern Region, awarded March 20, 2023, through December 31, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $10 million Timber Sale Preparation Services IDIQ (Forest Service Region 8 Southern Region, awarded January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside). Recent representative delivery orders include a $232 thousand RMRS West Montana FIA Plots purchase order for vegetation sampling and forest inventory work (July 25, 2024), a $153 thousand RMRS New Mexico FIA Plots purchase order for Forest Inventory and Analysis plot location and tree core collection (July 9, 2024), a $127 thousand 2024 RMRS Utah FIA Plots contract for field-based vegetation sampling and inventory work (August 27, 2024), and smaller task orders in January 2027 for timber prep services on the Choctaw Sale ($22,620) and C97 Trifecta Timber Sale ($22,926.52) in Louisiana under Total Small Business set-asides.

Activity has declined since 2024 — the vendor received 17 awards in 2024 but only 7 in 2025 and 6 in 2026, with 2 awards year-to-date in 2027 — reflecting normal task-order issuance patterns under standing IDIQs and BPAs rather than declining performance. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months carries combined potential value of only $130 thousand across five awards, a low risk indicator given the vendor's anchoring $50 million LMIR BPA ceiling and multiple regional IDIQs extending through 2028 and 2029. The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontractor footprint, concentrating exclusively on NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) work. Geographic performance spans the continental United States — Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Texas — with administrative headquarters in Albuquerque. All awards carry firm fixed-price structures; most recent task orders under the Kisatchie IDIQ and other regional vehicles are set-aside for Total Small Business, while work under the LMIR BPA and some regional IDIQ calls carry no set-aside designation, indicating competitive full-and-open bidding on those vehicles.