Alcon Excavating LLC

Alcon Excavating LLC, a HUBZone-certified small disadvantaged business based in Mora, New Mexico, provides heavy equipment rental and excavation services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor, with 100 percent of recent awards issued under small-business set-asides or full-and-open competition restricted to small business participation.

The company operates almost entirely within a single customer and mission domain. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 97 percent of all awards (91 of 94 total), with the USDA Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) anchoring 67 awards carrying $3.4 million in combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for seven awards valued at $1.8 million, while the broader Forest Service organization places 15 awards worth $451 thousand. Region 4 (Intermountain) and Region 8 (Southern) round out the active customer set with two small orders totaling $97 thousand and $100 thousand respectively. Activity is concentrated in fire suppression, prescribed burn work, and land stewardship: the top NAICS code is Support Activities for Forestry (90 awards), and the dominant PSC is Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (86 awards).

Alcon's capability footprint reflects this specialization. The company rents and operates dozers, excavators, tractor plows, feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, and skidders to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, prescribed project work, trail maintenance, habitat restoration, and surface cleanup across southwestern and southern U.S. national forests and grasslands. Representative delivery orders include a $53,550 order from Forest Service Region 3 issued June 29, 2026, for excavation and heavy equipment support; a $89,250 order from Region 3 in May 2026 for wildland fire suppression work in Alamogordo, New Mexico; and a $99,504.50 order from Region 4 (Intermountain) in August 2025 for heavy equipment services in Boise, Idaho.

Alcon holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all set aside for total small business participation and each carrying a $250,000 ceiling. Five were awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center between February 2026 and earlier dates, covering heavy equipment with water support for Regions 3, 5, and 6 (awarded February 6, 2026, through May 30, 2030); miscellaneous heavy equipment for Regions 3 and 8 (February 6, 2026, through April 22, 2029); FEMA Regions 3 and 8 equipment (February 6, 2026, through May 1, 2028); and earlier contracts established May 30, 2025, April 22, 2024, and May 1, 2023. These IDCs are structured as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Delivery orders against these vehicles range from roughly $5,400 to $242,193 and are issued on an as-needed basis for emergency response and land management work. The top parent IDC by task-order volume is 1202SB23T7131 (26 orders, $617 thousand potential value), followed by 12837121T7005 (9 orders, $634 thousand) and AG8371B177011 (9 orders, $253 thousand).

Activity has been volatile but concentrated. Alcon received 17 awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, six in 2024, four in 2025, and ten in 2026 year to date. Combined potential value across the entire 94-award portfolio stands at $5.8 million, with $3 million obligated (51 percent of potential). The company operates as a 100 percent prime contractor with no subcontracting footprint in the source data, meaning work is performed in-house rather than distributed to subs. Performance takes place across Regions 3, 5, 6, 8, and at locations including Taos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque in New Mexico; Bend, Oregon; Asheville, North Carolina; and Las Vegas, New Mexico. Alcon competes exclusively under total small business set-asides or in full-and-open procurements reserved for small business, reflecting a posture that relies on SBA certification rather than pursuit of unrestricted opportunities.