Axsus Enterprises LLC

Axsus Enterprises LLC, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Newport, Washington, operates as a prime contractor providing heavy equipment rentals, specialized operator services, and incident response personnel to the USDA Forest Service for wildland fire suppression, vegetation management, and hazardous fuels reduction across Western U.S. regions. The company competes full-and-open on the federal market without reliance on set-asides despite its HUBZone designation—nearly all awards carry no set-aside notation—and delivers through firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders against multiple Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements held across Forest Service regions.

Axsus Enterprises' capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment rental and operator deployment. The company furnishes excavators, feller bunchers, chippers (Type 1 and Type 2), log loaders, dump trucks, front-end loaders, road graders, water tenders, and specialized machinery such as log processors, forwarders, harvesters, and mulcher/masticators, typically paired with trained operators and field personnel including fallers and mechanics with service trucks. Representative contract work includes a $1.87 million purchase order from Forest Service Region 5 for feller buncher and logging truck services (awarded July 2024); a $1.24 million purchase order from the Forest Service for self-loading chippers supporting the Lane 1 incident in Oregon (awarded August 2024); and a $855 thousand purchase order from Region 6 for forwarders, log processors, and self-loading chippers in Wenatchee, Washington (awarded June 2025). Recent delivery orders and purchase orders range from $10,000 to over $1.8 million per award, with performance periods typically spanning days to months.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the USDA Forest Service. The top five customers account for 86% of awards by count and 94% of combined potential value. Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) dominates, anchoring 113 awards valued at $21 million (42% of the vendor's total portfolio). The National Interagency Fire Center, which administers Virtual Incident Procurement contracts on behalf of multiple Forest Service regions, accounts for 32 awards worth $8 million. Regions 5 (Pacific Southwest), 4 (Intermountain), and regional Forest Service offices collectively represent the remainder of the prime customer set. Axsus Enterprises has also served the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs through optional-use provisions on Forest Service IDCs.

Axsus Enterprises holds multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts structured as firm fixed-price Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements through the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The portfolio includes 23 named IDC vehicles across geographic zones and equipment categories: Heavy Equipment Task Force services for Regions 1, 4, and 6; heavy equipment with water for East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, 9) and West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6); water handling for Region 6; chipper services for East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4) and West Zone (Regions 5, 6); miscellaneous heavy equipment for Regions 5, 6, and East Zone; faller services for East and West zones; and mechanic with service truck for East Zone. All IDCs carry $250,000 ceilings as total small business set-asides awarded through NIFC or the Forest Service, with performance periods extending through 2028–2030. The top five parent vehicles generated 59 task orders worth approximately $5.5 million. Axsus Enterprises' largest single IDC parent (1204H124T7002) produced 32 task orders worth $3.6 million.

Activity has grown substantially year over year. Award volume increased from 14 in 2022 to 85 in 2024, with 80 awards in 2025 and 17 additional awards in the first half of 2026. The portfolio reflects 264 total awards since 2021, with combined potential value of $50.4 million and obligated amounts of $42.1 million (84% of potential value). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract work in the source data.

Axsus Enterprises' footprint aligns with NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 532410 (Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing). The primary PSC coding is Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with secondary coding for equipment lease or rental. The company's geographic focus spans Forest Service Regions 1 through 6 in Western states, with performance locations concentrated in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, California, and Wyoming. HUBZone certification places the company's headquarters and substantial operations in a designated economically distressed area, qualifying it for preferential consideration on full-and-open procurements despite the rarity of set-aside designations in recent awards.