Beard Equipment Co

Beard Equipment Co Inc., doing business as Beard Equipment Co, operates as a prime contractor delivering John Deere equipment sales, heavy equipment maintenance and repair services, and specialized attachments to federal civilian agencies across the Southeast and beyond. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, that competes predominantly under small business set-asides — about 60% of recent awards carry Total Small Business or Competitive 8(a) designations — though it also wins open competition work.

Beard Equipment Co's capability footprint centers on John Deere authorized dealer services and equipment maintenance for land management and construction operations. Recent representative work includes a $12 million ten-year Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 for heavy equipment maintenance and repair across twelve states and territories through August 2035, covering backhoes, dozers, excavators, skid steers, and loaders; a $34,393.72 purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service for a mulch head attachment at Panama City (completed August 2024); a $27,428 purchase order from the U.S. Air Force for a John Deere cylinder rebuild at Eglin Air Force Base (completed July 2024); and a $23,094.26 purchase order from the Forest Service for repairs to a John Deere 700J dozer at Apalachicola National Forest (completed October 2024). The company also supplies specialized equipment such as Buffalo Turbine debris blowers and broom attachments to refuge and national seashore facilities.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to a single vehicle and customer. The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 accounts for 98% of combined potential value across Beard Equipment Co's award portfolio — dominated by the $12 million ten-year BPA awarded in August 2025. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 52% of awards but represent only a fraction of the dollars; the Forest Service Southern Region (8 awards, $68 thousand), National Park Service Southeast Region (4 awards, $48 thousand), and Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration (2 awards, $100 thousand) round out active civilian customers. The company serves seventeen distinct federal agencies across the Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of the Air Force, and Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Activity has remained light and episodic — one to six awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with three awards in the first quarter of 2026. Beard Equipment Co operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards), with no recorded sub-award activity. The parent vendor is Beard Equipment Company, Inc., which holds the corporate structure from which Beard Equipment Co operates as a division.