USDA Forest Service Contract Opportunities
The USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) has 94 open contract opportunities today, 47 posted in the last 7 days and 24 due within a week. Most are for support activities for forestry, highway, street, and bridge construction and logging. In the last 12 months it awarded $4.3 billion in contracts; the biggest winner was Kiewit Infrastructure South Co with $260.6 million.
What Forest Service is buying now
- Support Activities for Forestry 9
- Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction 8
- Logging 6
- Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction 5
- All Other Specialty Trade Contractors 5
- Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors 5
- Roofing Contractors 4
- All Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing 3
- Janitorial Services 3
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 3
Where the Forest Service work is
Idaho (16), Montana (8), California (8), Colorado (7), Arizona (5), New Mexico (5), Wyoming (3), South Dakota (3)
Forest Service small business set-asides
84 of the 94 open notices are reserved for a kind of small business: Small business 78, NONE 3, 8(a) sole source 1, Women-owned 1, ["SBA"] 1. See the set-aside pages for every agency.
Forest Service buying offices with open notices
- USDA Forest Service: 13 open
- Usda-Fs, Stewardship Contracting Branch: 8 open
- Usda-Fs, Csa East 8: 4 open
- Usda-Fs, Csa Southwest 7: 4 open
- Usda-Fs, Csa Northwest 2: 4 open
- Usda-Fs, Csa Intermountain 9: 4 open
- USDA Forest Service-Spoc East: 4 open
- Usda-Fs, Csa East 13: 3 open
12 of the open notices are sources sought or presolicitation notices. Answering them tells the contracting officer you exist before the bid comes out, and can shape whether it is set aside.
Who won Forest Service contracts in the last 12 months
Forest Service obligated $4.3 billion in contracts from Oct 18, 2025 to Oct 18, 2026, across about 23,389 contract awards. The ten companies that received the most:
- Kiewit Infrastructure South Co: $260.6 million
- Perimeter Solutions LP: $160.2 million
- Aero-Flite, Inc.: $129.7 million
- Helicopter Express LLC: $101.2 million
- Helicopter Transport Services, LLC: $101.0 million
- Peachtree Lumber Company, Inc: $99.6 million
- Bridger AIR Tanker LLC: $80.3 million
- Aero AIR, LLC: $79.1 million
- Neptune Aviation Services, Inc.: $75.6 million
- Coulson Aviation (USA), Inc.: $67.1 million
The trades it spent the most on: Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation ($1.1 billion), Support Activities for Forestry ($977.0 million), Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction ($552.5 million), Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation ($177.7 million), Commercial and Institutional Building Construction ($170.0 million), All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing ($160.2 million).
Award figures: contract obligations reported to USAspending.gov, read Oct 18, 2026.
Open Forest Service contract opportunities
The 40 newest of 94. The trade pages above list all of them.
How to bid on Forest Service contracts
Register your business in the federal contractor system at SAM.gov under the NAICS codes you work in; the ones Forest Service posts the most under right now are 115310, 237310, 113310, 237110, 238990. If you qualify for a set-aside, check its certification: 84 of Forest Service's 94 open notices are set aside. Then read each notice in full on its official page before the deadline. Our guide how to get government contracts walks through it step by step.
Forest Service contract questions
How many Forest Service contracts are open right now?
94 on Oct 18, 2026, 47 of them posted in the last 7 days and 24 due within a week.
Who wins the most Forest Service contracts?
In the last 12 months the biggest winners were Kiewit Infrastructure South Co ($260.6 million), Perimeter Solutions LP ($160.2 million) and Aero-Flite, Inc. ($129.7 million), out of $4.3 billion in Forest Service contracts.
What does Forest Service buy?
Right now its open notices are mostly for support activities for forestry, highway, street, and bridge construction and logging. By dollars over the last year: nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation, support activities for forestry and highway, street, and bridge construction.