Gerald Abernathy Backhoe & Dozer Service, Inc.

Gerald Abernathy Backhoe & Dozer Service, Inc., doing business as Backhoe Dozer, is a small-business prime contractor providing road construction, bridge replacement, maintenance, and infrastructure repair services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Mt Ida, Arkansas, and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its two primary indefinite delivery vehicles while also executing full-and-open delivery orders against those same IDIQs.

Backhoe Dozer's capability portfolio centers on heavy civil construction and forestry infrastructure: highway and road construction dominates 60 of 84 recent awards (primary NAICS 237310, Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction), with secondary work in forestry support activities, site preparation, and commercial building construction. Recent representative work includes a $668,293 delivery order from USDA Forest Service for bridge replacement on National Forest Development Road near Hot Springs, Arkansas (awarded September 2023); a $200,951 definitive contract for National Forest Development Road 30 repair on the Mena Ranger District (awarded August 2025, completion July 2026); and a $47,630 delivery order for roads C004 and C006 reconstruction under the Ouachita Road Construction MATOC (awarded September 2026, completion February 2027).

Customer concentration is severely skewed. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8–Southern Region accounts for 77 awards (96% of award count) with $67.4 million combined potential value, while a single Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 award anchors $250 million of the vendor's $317.6 million total potential value. Backhoe Dozer holds two primary IDVs: an $18 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract reserved for total small business with USDA Forest Service Region 8, running through March 2028, against which the vendor has issued three task orders totaling $939 thousand; and a $250 million multiple-award MATOC for alteration and repair construction services across the continental United States and Hawaii through the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9, running through June 2027. The older Ouachita and Ozark–St. Francis National Forest Construction IDV (2013–2018) generated 28 task orders totaling $2.5 million. Activity has declined sharply — five awards in 2022 declining to one in each of 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months ($48 thousand combined potential value). The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Obligated dollars across all awards stand at $5.4 million, representing 2 percent of combined potential value, indicating that most awards remain unexecuted or are in early-stage performance.