Colorado Region

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region, a civilian sub-agency within Interior that administers land management and resource stewardship on federal lands across Colorado and New Mexico, awarded 4,096 federal contracts totaling $235.8 million in combined potential value since 2005, with $229.6 million obligated. Recent contract volume has declined: 163 awards in 2023, 144 in 2024, 131 in 2025, 100 in 2026, and 1 recorded award in 2027. The most recent recorded award date is September 22, 2027.

The competitive landscape is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, North Wind General Contractors LLC leads by award count with 65 awards ($3.9 million potential value), followed by X Field Services LLC with 35 awards ($2.7 million) and North Wind Construction Services, LLC with 23 awards ($5.3 million). By potential value, North Wind Construction Services dominates at $5.3 million across 23 awards, but the top five primes by award count hold only 23 percent of recent awards and the top five by value hold only 7 percent of combined potential value, reflecting a highly fragmented field across 1,339 distinct prime contractors.

Contract set-asides favor small business: 53 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, while 43 percent are total small-business set-asides. The remaining 4 percent splits across 8(a) sole-source (1 percent), competitive 8(a) (1 percent), service-disabled veteran-owned small business (1 percent), woman-owned small business (1 percent), and smaller allocations to economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business, HUBZone, partial small business, Indian small business economic enterprise, and buy-Indian categories.

Grant activity is substantially smaller. The Bureau awarded 456 grants totaling $93.9 million in federal dollars obligated since August 2009, declining sharply from 106 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2026. The most recent grant award closed February 1, 2026. All grants are structured as cooperative agreements. Colorado Youth Corps Association dominates grant activity: 132 awards ($5.3 million federal share) over the last five years alone account for 68 percent of recent award count and 18 percent of federal dollars. Five recipients—Colorado Youth Corps, Ducks Unlimited Inc., Colorado State University, Trout Unlimited Inc., and Colorado Department of Natural Resources—hold 18 percent of recent federal dollars, indicating grant recipient concentration as highly concentrated.

Recent contract opportunities emphasize construction, maintenance, environmental consulting, and services across Colorado and New Mexico field offices. Open solicitations include BLM-CO GAOA UFO MPLC Warehouse Improvement (solicitation 140L1726R0001, due October 30, 2026)—asbestos abatement, bathroom remodel, flooring replacement, RTU replacement, and photovoltaic inverter replacement at Montrose Public Lands Center, total small business set-aside; BLM-CO TRFO Basin Well and Water System Improvements (solicitation 140L1726R0005, due September 17, 2026)—turnkey solar-powered well water system for wildlife drinking tank near Naturita, Colorado, total small business set-aside; and Contract Archaeological Investigations Crawford (solicitation 140L1726Q0051, due August 31, 2026)—Class III archaeological inventory as a BPA call against the USFS Land Management Integrated Resources BPA, total small business set-aside. Environmental services, laboratory testing, janitorial services, septic tank maintenance, and herbicide treatment comprise other active RFQs due between late August and mid-September 2026.