Amos Espinoza

Amos Espinoza, a sole-proprietor minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Cleveland, New Mexico, supplies specialized heavy equipment and vehicles to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. All fourteen recent awards are Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) or delivery orders placed under those IDCs, with 100% prime positioning and zero subcontract activity. The vendor operates under primary NAICS 335110 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, providing dozers, excavators, skidders, dump trucks, mulcher/masticators, road graders, and transport vehicles to support land management and fire suppression operations.

Customer concentration is singular and by design: all 14 awards originate from the Department of Agriculture, split across the National Interagency Fire Center (6 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value), the Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region (5 awards, $246 thousand), and the Forest Service broadly (3 awards, $50 thousand). The vendor holds six Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, each carrying a $250,000 ceiling and set aside for total small business. Five of those six IDCs are multiple-award vehicles valid through 2028 or 2029. Amos Espinoza places task orders against two parent IDCs: 1202SB23T7208 (5 task orders, $123 thousand combined potential value) and 1202SB24T7058 (1 task order, $22 thousand). Representative delivery orders include a $40,500 firm fixed-price order from Forest Service R3 in July 2025 for heavy equipment and vehicles supporting land management in Santa Fe, New Mexico; a $25,880 order in May 2024 for a dump truck and skidder to support land management operations in Region 3; and a $28,350 order in June 2026 from Forest Service R3 for heavy equipment supporting emergency response operations in Taos, New Mexico.

Activity has accelerated in 2026, with six awards year-to-date compared to one in 2024 and two in 2024, reflecting expanded utilization of the VIPR system vehicles. The vendor has obligated $296 thousand against a combined potential value of $1.8 million across all awards (16% drawdown), indicating substantial remaining capacity across its IDC portfolio. The business model is built entirely on rapid-response equipment provisioning to federal fire and land management operations in Forest Service Regions 3 and 8 (Southwestern and Northern regions), with performance locations exclusively in New Mexico.