The Forest Service Region 1 – Region 4 Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance Blanket Purchase Agreement is a ten-year indefinite delivery vehicle established in October 2023 with a shared ceiling of $50,000,000, designed to provide comprehensive forest engineering and road maintenance services across National Forests and Grasslands in ten western states including Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado. The agreement encompasses both road maintenance and road construction work, including activities such as road reconditioning, drainage feature installation and repair, culvert replacement, brush clearing, riprap placement, hazard tree mitigation, and emergency repairs necessitated by weather events and wildfires. The vehicle serves as a multi-agency resource available to all federal agencies and remains open and continuous for vendor additions through August 2033, enabling rapid response to infrastructure maintenance needs and emergency response requirements across the covered national forests and grasslands.
Task orders issued under this agreement typically range from approximately $20,000 to $1,337,000, with completion dates extending from several months to over a year, reflecting both routine maintenance activities and substantial construction projects. Frequently awarded contractors include Price Contracting Inc., Tri State Excavating LLC, Otter Creek Dirt Work LLC, J & J Excavating and Trucking Inc., L.C. Hess Construction Inc., and other small businesses certified in various SBA categories including HUBZone and veteran-owned designations. The majority of task orders are designated as Total Small Business set-asides, with work performed across Forest Service Regions 1 and 4 in locations such as Montana, Idaho, and Utah, funded through agencies including the USDA Forest Service and supported by programs such as the Great American Outdoors Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Recent task orders increasingly address post-fire recovery needs, including Burned Area Emergency Response work and road treatments to protect surfaces from wildfire damage, reflecting evolving infrastructure priorities across the Forest Service's northern and intermountain regions.