Special NoticePosted Aug 4, 2026·Responses due Aug 11, 2026

FY26 Finger Lakes National Forest Pasture Mowing

Forest Service · USDA-FS, CSA EAST 9

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
561730
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
12444826Q0024
Set-aside
Small Business Set Aside - Total
PSC
F099
Place
Hector, NY, USA
Contact
Gayle Geiger (gayle.geiger@usda.gov)
CSV Email

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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation 12444826Q0024 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Aug 4, 2026 · this notice
    Special Notice
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Typical award: Sep 26, 2026 to Dec 22, 2026, middle of the range Oct 28, 2026.
Measured from 92 past early notices at Forest Service that later posted an award (middle half of cases, counted from Aug 4, 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

The USDA Forest Service (FS), Procurement & Property Services (PPS) is issuing this notice as a means of complying with USDA Acquisition Regulation (AGAR), SUBPART 412.201-1, requiring that all calls above $20,000 be posted to the Government Point of Entry (GPE). The USDA FS intends on awarding a competitive BPA Call Order against the LMIR BPA for FY26 Finger Lakes National Forest Pasture Mowing. 12363N23Q4023 The Land Management Integrated Resources BPA (LMIR) is a National BPA that consists of a large variety of work including Professional Services, Natural Resources Restoration, Engineering… (show all)

, 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 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 63 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 BPA continuously solicited on the GPE at: SAM.gov. The government will not provide feedback or evaluations to companies regarding their submissions in response to this notice, however, this is an open continuous BPA that allows us to accept responses for the life of the BPA. Search �Contract Opportunities� on sam.gov using solicitation number �12444826Q0024�. The LMIR BPA has a continuous solicitation sharing that that contractors may join the BPA at any point in time by reaching out to POC on Solicitation 12444826Q0024.

Who won similar work

3 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (USDA-FS, CSA EAST 9), same product/service code (PSC) F099.

Single-winner award sizes (3): middle half $68K to $152K, median $90K; range $46K to $214K.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
CRW RESOURCES LLC1$214KJun 10, 2026
SHABA CONTRACTING Robbinsville NC 28771 USA1$90KApr 24, 2026
LYNN C. PETERSON Grand Rapids MN 55744 USA1$46KSep 29, 2025

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. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 3 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. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 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.