Badlanders LLC

Badlanders LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Driscoll, North Dakota, operates as a prime contractor delivering forestry operations, wildfire suppression, land stewardship, and tree removal services to federal agencies under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The vendor competes predominantly in small-business set-aside categories, with 31 of 39 recent awards designated as Total Small Business; the remainder compete without set-aside designation. Badlanders LLC is a for-profit limited liability company structured as "Other" under federal business-type classification.

Badlanders' customer base concentrates heavily in Forest Service regional operations and emergency-response programs. The top five customers by potential-value share account for 99 percent of combined potential value across all awards, driven almost entirely by two single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements: a $50.1 million Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (running through October 2032) and a $50 million Intermountain Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (also through October 2032). Below those two anchor vehicles, the National Interagency Fire Center (7 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value) leads by task-order volume, followed by Forest Service Region 9–Eastern Region (7 awards, $681 thousand), the Army Corps of Engineers (7 awards, $434 thousand), and Forest Service Region 5–Pacific Southwest Region (5 awards, $358 thousand). Award-count concentration is more dispersed: the top five customers account for 77 percent of awards, with Fire and Aviation Management and Region 9–Eastern Region tied at seven awards each.

Badlanders holds three active indefinite delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center (Virtual Incident Procurement system) that generate task-order activity: a $250 thousand miscellaneous heavy equipment IDC for Regions 3 and 8 (awarded August 2026, expires June 1, 2030), a $500 thousand water-handling services IDC for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (awarded February 2026, expires May 30, 2030), and a $500 thousand heavy equipment IDC for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 (awarded February 2026, expires April 28, 2030). Badlanders also holds a $288,275 single-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for tree cutting and removal supporting the Fargo-Moorhead Metro Flood Diversion Project (awarded January 2024, expires April 2028, with seasonal restrictions limiting work to October 1–April 15 annually due to endangered-species protections). Additional smaller IDCs include a $250 thousand water-handling vehicle with the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded May 2025) and a $250 thousand heavy equipment vehicle (awarded April 2025). The top parent vehicle by task-order volume is an indefinite delivery contract (1202SB22T7189) supporting 17 task orders valued at $937 thousand.

Activity has grown from five awards in 2022 to a peak of twelve in 2024, then declined to eight in 2025 and six in 2026; the most recent award dates to August 12, 2026. Combined potential value across all 39 awards stands at $104.2 million, but only $1.7 million has been obligated to date, reflecting the typical profile of indefinite delivery vehicles with high ceiling values and unexercised task-order authority. Badlanders operates exclusively as a prime contractor—zero percent of its recent awards are sub-awards—and serves ten distinct federal customer agencies.

Concrete capability examples include a $146,250 Forest Service delivery order for unspecified land-management services in Kalispell, Montana (awarded August 3, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside, due August 27, 2026); a $115,020 Department of Interior Region 1 Northern Region delivery order in Hamilton, Montana (August 2, 2026, Total Small Business); a $255,694 Department of Interior Region 9 delivery order in Duluth, Minnesota for land stewardship and forest management (July 11, 2026); and multiple Army Corps of Engineers delivery orders for tree cutting and removal supporting the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project, including orders valued at $55,895, $33,000, $28,920, and $12,915 between February and October 2024. The vendor also supplies Type 6 engines under two purchase orders to the Idaho Region (June 1, 2025, $14,625 and $43,875 respectively, no set-aside).

Badlanders' award portfolio concentrates on two NAICS categories: Support Activities for Forestry (31 awards) and Landscaping Services (7 awards). By PSC code, the portfolio splits between Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (29 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation–Land Treatment Practices (7 awards). Work is performed across multiple Forest Service regions and geographic zones spanning the Northern Rockies, Pacific Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, and Eastern regions, with performance locations including Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Michigan, California, Wyoming, Tennessee, and North Dakota.