SBA size standard
$9.5 million
Measured by average annual receipts over the last 5 fiscal years
SBA table effective March 2023
Official definition
This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing landscape care and maintenance services and/or installing trees, shrubs, plants, lawns, or gardens and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing these services along with the design of landscape plans and/or the construction (i.e., installation) of walkways, retaining walls, decks, fences, ponds, and similar structures.
FY2025 federal spending
The Department of Defense bought 56% of the $669.2M obligated under 561730 in FY2025.
- Contract awards
- 4,597
- Contract vehicles (IDVs)
- 747
Top buying agencies
- Department of Defense$375.8M
- Department of State$114.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$98.1M
- Department of the Interior$22.3M
- General Services Administration$11.0M
FY2025 federal contract obligations, USAspending.gov
NAICS 561730 obligated $669 million in FY2025 across 4,597 contract awards. DoD is $376 million, and then the list gets specific: State at $115 million is grounds maintenance at overseas posts and diplomatic facilities, VA at $98 million is national cemetery grounds, Interior at $22 million is park and refuge landscape work, GSA at $11 million is federal building sites. Those are four distinct requirement types that share almost no evaluation criteria.
What belongs here
Landscape care and maintenance, installing trees, shrubs, plants, lawns, and gardens, and firms that combine those services with landscape design or with installing walkways, retaining walls, decks, fences, and ponds.
- Interior cleaning is 561720.
- Grounds work bundled into a base operations scope is 561210.
- Landscape architecture sold as design without installation is a professional services code, not this one.
Competing in this code
The $9.5 million size standard is among the lowest in the federal system, which means the small business universe here is genuinely small businesses, not firms with hundreds of millions in revenue. Combined with 747 IDVs and 4,597 awards averaging under $150,000, this is one of the most winnable codes for a local contractor. VA's national cemetery work deserves specific attention: the standards are unusually exacting, the recompete cycle is regular, and past performance in that program is portable across the entire cemetery system.
NAICS 561730 FAQ
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 561730?
SBA sets it at $9.5 million in average annual receipts, averaged over your last five completed fiscal years. Come in at or under that and you are small on every NAICS 561730 solicitation, including the set-asides.
Which agencies buy grounds maintenance under NAICS 561730?
FY2025 obligations: DoD ($376 million), State ($115 million), VA ($98 million), Interior ($22 million), GSA ($11 million). State's overseas post grounds work and VA's national cemetery program are the two distinctive buyers, and neither evaluates like a commercial landscaping bid.
Why does the low size standard in NAICS 561730 matter?
Because at $9.5 million in average annual receipts, the small business pool is actually small. In codes with a $30 million or higher standard, set-asides are routinely won by firms far larger than a local contractor. Here the standard keeps the competitive field close to the size of the businesses actually doing the work.
What makes VA national cemetery grounds work different?
The performance standards are more exacting than commercial landscape maintenance, covering turf condition, headstone alignment, and interment-area readiness, and they are inspected against. VA obligated $98 million in the code in FY2025. Past performance in one cemetery is portable across the system, which makes the first award unusually valuable.