Big Sky LR, LLC

Big Sky LR, LLC, doing business as Big Sky Land Resources, is a Montana-based small business providing mechanical hazardous fuels reduction, forestry stewardship, and wildfire mitigation services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles. Headquartered in Cardwell, Montana, the company operates across Western states with specialized heavy equipment and personnel for prescribed burns, forest thinning, vegetation management, and fire risk reduction on federal lands.

Big Sky LR competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and holds five active federal vehicles anchoring its customer relationships. Two single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements dominate the vendor's potential value: the Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Northern Region (Region 1) carrying a $50 million ceiling through October 2032, covering Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota; and the Intermountain Stewardship BPA with the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station carrying a $50 million ceiling through October 2032, covering Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Big Sky LR also holds four multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, totaling $1.75 million combined ceiling, for miscellaneous heavy equipment services (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders) across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and Pacific Northwest Region 6. A fifth vehicle, a $250,000 IDC with the National Interagency Fire Center for Region 6, was competitively awarded under the Virtual Incident Procurement system for miscellaneous heavy equipment and all-hazard incident response. Three named delivery orders constitute recent transactional activity: a $93,000 firm fixed price order from Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) issued September 7, 2026, under total small business set-aside for land management services in Dillon, Montana; a $114,783 order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) issued September 25, 2025, for mechanical hazardous fuels reduction at the contractor's Wenatchee, Washington location; and a $59,765 order from Forest Service Region 6 issued September 3, 2025, for forestry and stewardship work under the $50 million Intermountain BPA.

Customer concentration sits almost entirely within Forest Service stewardship and fire management programs. The top two funding sources by potential value—Forest Service Region 1 and the Rocky Mountain Research Station—account for $100.1 million combined ceiling across two single-award BPAs. The National Interagency Fire Center (four awards, $1.8 million combined potential value) and Bureau of Land Management (two awards, $5 million combined potential value) round out the active agency set. All work aligns with Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 115310) and Natural Resources/Conservation forestry and fire suppression (PSC). The vendor's footprint shows steady but modest award activity—two to three awards annually since 2020—with $107 million in total potential value concentrated in the two large stewardship BPAs and limited task order velocity against them. Only $273 thousand has been obligated across the entire portfolio, indicating the vehicles are recently awarded or task order utilization has not yet ramped. No subcontracting activity appears in the source.