Zeb's Tree Service, LLC

Zeb's Tree Service, LLC, doing business as Zebs Tree Service, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Rogue River, Oregon, that provides tree removal, vegetation management, and heavy equipment rental services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple regions and indefinite delivery vehicles. The company competes under total small business set-asides on its core IDC vehicles and full-and-open on delivery orders issued under those vehicles.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on wildfire suppression, fuels reduction, habitat restoration, and emergency incident response through field forestry work and equipment provisioning. Representative work includes a $271,200 delivery order (August 2024, USDA Forest Service Region 6) for tree removal and vegetation management in Wenatchee, Washington; a $290,700 delivery order (August 2023, Region 5) for similar services across the Pacific Southwest; and a $500,000 multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (February 2026, National Interagency Fire Center) for miscellaneous heavy equipment supporting Region 5 operations. The company performs all work as the prime contractor without subcontractors.

Customer concentration is extreme and regional. The USDA Forest Service R6 Pacific Northwest Region dominates with 126 awards carrying $9.1 million in combined potential value, representing approximately 56% of all awards and 46% of total potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center (36 awards, $6.3 million) and R5 Pacific Southwest Region (39 awards, $3.1 million) together account for most remaining volume and dollars. Top five customers cover 99% of awards and 98% of combined potential value. The vendor works almost exclusively in three NAICS categories: Support Activities for Forestry (225 of 226 awards); the bulk of work falls under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (221 awards).

Zeb's Tree Service holds eleven active indefinite delivery vehicles, all issued by the National Interagency Fire Center or USDA Forest Service and all set aside for total small business. The core portfolio includes five VIPR I-BPA vehicles awarded February 6, 2026, each with $500,000 ceilings running through 2028–2030 covering heavy equipment taskforce (HETF) resources for Region 6, heavy equipment with water for Regions 3/5/6, miscellaneous heavy equipment for Regions 5 and 6, and heavy equipment for West Zone Regions 5 and 6. Earlier-vintage vehicles carry $250,000 ceilings and performance periods extending through 2024–2025. The top five IDVs by task-order count account for 88 delivery orders with $7.7 million in combined potential value; IDC 1202SB21T7945 alone generated 30 task orders worth $2.7 million.

Activity has tracked flat to slightly declining year over year—32 awards in 2024 down to 13 in 2026 (partial-year through September)—though the vendor's 2022–2024 cadence (23 to 32 awards annually) shows stable engagement. Across 226 prime awards, combined potential value stands at $20 million with $12 million obligated (60% burn rate). Place of performance spans multiple USDA Forest Service regions across the western United States: Region 3 (Southwestern), Region 5 (Pacific Southwest), Region 6 (Pacific Northwest), and implied multi-region dispatch for NIFC-backed equipment contracts. The vendor's business model relies on rapid delivery-order issuance under pre-positioned IDCs to support incident response and prescribed burn work, with short performance windows (often one to four weeks) and firm fixed-price structures.