406 Excavating LLC

406 Excavating LLC, Ben Walker Division, is a small business prime contractor providing heavy equipment and water-capable machinery for federal fire suppression and emergency response operations, operating exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides through the National Interagency Fire Center. The vendor holds three indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service across a single customer, with combined potential value of $750 thousand, all awarded as prime IDIQs under firm fixed-price structures.

Based in Columbus, Montana, 406 Excavating LLC operates as a for-profit corporate entity supporting firefighting and all-hazard incident response across the East Zone (regions 1, 2, 4, and 9). The vendor's equipment portfolio includes dozers, excavators, tractor plows, skidgines, softtracks, and pumper cats — heavy machinery deployed on incident blanket purchase agreements under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. All three awards are with the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management program; concentration is absolute.

The vendor's IDV footprint consists of three separate Total Small Business set-aside indefinite delivery contracts, each with a $250 thousand ceiling. The oldest contract, awarded May 26, 2022, through May 23, 2025, procures heavy equipment with water capabilities for fire suppression and all-hazard response nationwide. A second contract, awarded June 1, 2023, through June 1, 2028, covers heavy equipment for the East Zone under VIPR I-BPA structure. A third, awarded February 6, 2026, through June 1, 2028, repeats the heavy-equipment procurement vehicle for the same regions. Activity is sparse — one award per year in 2022 and 2023, and one in 2026 — with no subcontract work recorded. The vendor competes only under Total Small Business set-asides and operates as a 100% prime contractor with no sub-award footprint.