Special NoticePosted Sep 18, 2026·Responses due Sep 23, 2026

SHF Timber Prep

Forest Service · USDA-FS, CSA SOUTHWEST 3

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
Not stated
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
127EAT26Q0097
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Shasta, CA, USA
Contact
Megan Acord (megan.acord@usda.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 127EAT26Q0097 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Sep 18, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Nov 10, 2026 to Feb 5, 2027, middle of the range Dec 12, 2026.
Measured from 92 past early notices at Forest Service that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Sep 18, 2026).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

BPA Call Order Exceeding $25,000 Synopsis Requisition 1171339. The USDA Forest Service (FS), Procurement & Property Services (PPS) is issuing this synopsis/solicitation notice as a means of complying with the USDA�s policy in the Contracting Desk Book, SUBPART 413.3�SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION METHODS, 413.303 Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs). The USDA FS intends on awarding a competitive BPA Call Order against the LMIR BPA for 127EAT26Q0097 � site preparation for forestry activities within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA t… (show all)

hat consist of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering, Project Management, NEPA, Communications, and more. The BPA can be utilized on all Forests and Grasslands and is available for all federal agencies to utilize. This is not a solicitation. This synopsis notification of intent to award a BPA Call order does not constitute a request for proposals or submission of any information in response to this notification. This procurement is restricted to those approved companies eligible for call orders under the Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) for USFS. There are currently 39 businesses that will receive this solicitation. The Call Order shall be issued via email to those companies listed on the BPA. Any changes to the Call Order RFQ shall also be emailed to those companies listed on the BPA. Point of Contact is sm.fs.lmirbpa@usda.gov. This requirement will be competitively awarded as a BPA Call Order against the aforementioned multiple award schedule BPAs continuously solicited on the Government Point of Entry (GPE) at: SAM.gov. The government will not provide feedback or evaluations to companies regarding their submissions in response to this notice, however, the LMIR BPA is an open continuous BPA that allows us to accept responses for the life of the BPA. Search �Contracts� on sam.gov using solicitation number �12363N23Q4023�. The LMIR BPA has a continuous pre-solicitation sharing so that contractors may submit a proposal to join the BPA at any point in time by reaching out to the POC on Solicitation 12363N23Q4023.

Who won similar work

1513 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Match: Same agency (Forest Service), any industry: a loose match.

Loose match: same agency, any industry. Read the titles before treating these as competitors.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
RELIANCE CONTRACTORS INC21$1.8MAug 28, 2026
THREE STRIPES CONTRACTING LLC10$954KSep 15, 2026
FORTAZO CORP.8$781KSep 17, 2026
GERMRIP LLC8$707KSep 17, 2026
JUDD BUICK CONSTRUCTION, INC.7$7.6MMay 19, 2026
Xplicit Technologies LLC7$463KApr 30, 2026
GRANITE COMMERCIAL SERVICE LLC6$1.9MJul 15, 2026
THE COBUILDERS LLC6$396KAug 3, 2026
KING MATTHEW R De Pere WI 54115 USA6$168KMay 14, 2026
ABSOLUTE FORESTRY LLC5$9.8MSep 14, 2026

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 0 of these past winners lobbied U.S. Forest Service since 2024 (0 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past U.S. Forest Service job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 15 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.