9Mile Contracting LLC

9Mile Contracting LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Huson, Montana, provides heavy equipment rentals and transportation services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor operating entirely under total small business set-asides through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

9Mile Contracting is a sole proprietorship self-certified as a small disadvantaged business. The vendor competes exclusively under set-aside vehicles and operates in a single NAICS category — Support Activities for Forestry — with all work classified under PSC codes for natural resources, conservation, and forest-range fire suppression. The company's service portfolio includes heavy equipment such as feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, and skidders, along with general transportation support and personnel for up to 16-hour daily shifts during incident response scenarios. Work is performed across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9, with administrative oversight at the National Interagency Fire Center and operational performance at dispatch centers and incident locations within those regions.

9Mile Contracting's customer concentration is absolute: 100% of awards fund Department of Agriculture Forest Service programs. The top two customers by count are R1-Northern Region (12 awards, $444 thousand combined potential value) and Fire and Aviation Management's National Interagency Fire Center (9 awards, $3 million combined potential value). The dollar concentration skews heavily toward the Interagency Fire Center IDIQs, which anchor the majority of the vendor's potential value despite fewer award counts.

The vendor holds six indefinite delivery contracts, all issued by the National Interagency Fire Center under total small business set-asides and running through 2028–2030. Four contracts carry ceilings of $500,000 each (awarded February 6, 2026, running through 2028–2030 for heavy equipment with water and miscellaneous heavy equipment across East Zone regions), and two carry $250,000 ceilings (awarded May 14, 2024, and June 1, 2023). Recent delivery orders against these IDCs include a $51,625 order from R1-Northern Region issued July 25, 2026, for heavy equipment rental and transportation supporting wildland fire suppression, a $41,650 order from the same region issued August 11, 2026, and a $45,500 order issued August 21, 2025. Activity has increased year over year — one award in 2023 to five in 2026 — reflecting a climb from four awards in 2024 to the current pipeline. Combined potential value across all awards is $3.4 million, though only $444 thousand (13% of potential value) has been obligated to date, indicating the vendor's work is largely order-driven under standing IDCs rather than exercised at volume against ceiling values.