A.B. Wilson Equipment

A.B. Wilson Equipment, a self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a Subchapter S corporation, supplies specialized equipment and mechanic services for federal wildland fire management and forestry operations exclusively as a prime contractor on USDA Forest Service contracts. The vendor is 100% reliant on total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and regional Forest Service offices, competing without exception under small-business restrictions rather than full-and-open competition.

A.B. Wilson Equipment is headquartered in Sebastopol, California, and operates with roughly 35 prime contract awards spanning NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 811111 (General Automotive Repair), delivering firm fixed-price equipment and mechanic services through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The vendor's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: chipper equipment with operators, mechanic services with dedicated service trucks, and associated logistics support for fire suppression, fuels reduction, and emergency incident response across Forest Service regions. Representative work includes a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for chipper equipment covering Regions 5 and 6 awarded February 6, 2026 (extending through May 5, 2030), which has generated two delivery orders in 2025 valued at $60,320 and $79,476.66 for emergency forest operations in Eureka and Clovis, California; a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for mechanic services with service trucks awarded February 6, 2026 (extending through June 5, 2028) that has delivered nine task orders ranging from $19,500 to $77,500; and a $56,550 delivery order from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) awarded August 7, 2026, for equipment support.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds 13 of 35 prime awards and $3.8 million (77%) of the $4.9 million combined potential value across the footprint. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region accounts for 14 awards with $739 thousand in potential value — a secondary hub but significantly smaller than the National Interagency Fire Center dollars. Together, these two customer entities represent the entirety of the vendor's federal business; no other customer contributes meaningfully to pipeline or historical revenue. Activity accelerated from four awards per year in 2022 and 2023 to nine in 2024, then contracted to five in 2025 and seven in 2026 — a plateau rather than clear trajectory.

The vendor holds nine active indefinite delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center umbrella, each with ceiling values of $250,000 to $750,000 and performance periods extending through 2029 or 2030. Five IDCs are dedicated to chipper equipment across regional zones (Region 3 East Zone, East Zone Regions 1–2–4, and Regions 5–6, with multiple awards under the same geographic scope). Four IDCs cover mechanic services with service trucks for Regions 5 and 6 under varying ceiling and completion dates. All IDC holdings carry total small business set-aside designations and are structured to enable on-call ordering through VIPR for pre-season and incident-responsive deployment. The top three vehicles by task-order volume are IDC 12569R23T7199 (ten task orders, $533 thousand), IDC 129J6120T7183 (eight task orders, $303 thousand), and IDC 12569R24T7139 (three task orders, $75 thousand) — all mechanic-services and chipper-focused forestry support contracts.

A.B. Wilson Equipment operates exclusively within a single federal procurement ecosystem centered on Forest Service fire management. The vendor performs no subcontract work and maintains no teaming relationships. Its entire portfolio sits on small-business-set-aside IDCs with relatively modest ceiling values ($250,000 to $750,000) and delivery-order execution values ranging from $7,540 to $100,750. Combined dollars obligated across all 35 awards total $1.1 million (22% of combined potential value), signaling either slow uptake against available ceilings or modest annual invoicing volume. The recompete exposure is substantial: six IDCs expire or approach ultimate completion between August 2028 and August 2029, representing the bulk of the active vehicle footprint and therefore requiring aggressive pursuit activity within the next two years to maintain pipeline continuity.