Aaron Downing Logging LLC

Aaron Downing Logging LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Orofino, Idaho, provides logging, timber harvesting, mastication, and forestry equipment services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a small-business prime contractor, competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides on indefinite-delivery contracts and task orders issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and regional Forest Service offices.

The vendor operates in a narrow, specialized capability space: timber harvesting, tree removal, feller buncher and mulcher operations, log truck and equipment transportation, and heavy equipment support for wildfire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed forest management work. Forty-one of the vendor's forty-two awards carry NAICS 541730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC K024 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). Representative work includes a $632,265.95 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain) in August 2023 for timber harvesting and mastication services in Idaho; a $322,320 delivery order from Region 4 in August 2022 for logging services in Salmon, Idaho; and a $358,718.95 purchase order from Region 3 (Southwestern) in June 2022 for log truck services supporting the Calf Canyon project in New Mexico.

Customer concentration is extreme: the National Interagency Fire Center accounts for twelve awards and $3.8 million of the vendor's $7.3 million combined potential value (52% by dollars), with the Forest Service's four regional offices—R4 Intermountain, R1 Northern, R3 Southwestern, and R2 Rocky Mountain—collectively contributing twenty-seven awards and $3.2 million. The top five customer entities cover 93% of awards and 96% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects the vendor's position as a specialized wildfire and forest-management equipment contractor with no civilian, defense, or non-USDA-forestry customer base.

Aaron Downing Logging holds nine active indefinite-delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement system, all set aside for Total Small Business, with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. These IDIQs cover heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders), heavy equipment with water services, chipper services, and miscellaneous equipment for Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9. The vendor's five largest parent vehicles—IDIQs 1202SB21T7076, 12034318T7064, 1202SB24T7569, 1202SB24T7207, and 1202SB21T7040—generated six, five, four, three, and two task orders respectively, with combined potential values ranging from $234 thousand to $955 thousand. Task orders under these vehicles fund short-duration forest management and incident response work across Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming.

Activity has been volatile: ten awards in 2022, a drop to two in 2023, seven in 2024, two in 2025, and nine through August 2026. The vendor has no federal subcontract footprint; all forty-two awards are prime work. Combined potential value across all awards is $7.3 million, with $3.1 million obligated (43% realization rate), reflecting the episodic nature of wildfire suppression and forest-management procurement. All awards are firm fixed-price delivery orders or purchase orders issued against small-business set-aside IDIQs with completion dates typically within sixty to ninety days of award, consistent with emergency incident response and preseason equipment mobilization cycles in the western Forest Service regions.