Bo Rowley

Bo Rowley, doing business as Rowley Engineering, a sole proprietorship based in Arroyo Grande, California, provides heavy equipment rental and rapid-deployment services for wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the Department of Agriculture as a small-business prime contractor under total small business set-asides. All nine awards in the recent portfolio are prime contracts or indefinite delivery contracts, with no subcontract work, and the vendor competes exclusively under the total small business set-aside category across its entire footprint.

Rowley Engineering's capability portfolio centers on the rapid mobilization of heavy machinery—dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, and skidders—along with associated transport and personnel deployment to support U.S. Forest Service wildfire response and landscape rehabilitation operations. Representative work includes a $237,186 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) on August 8, 2025, for heavy equipment and services with ultimate completion in September 2025; a $66,950 total small business set-aside delivery order from the same region on August 28, 2026, for equipment rental in wildfire emergency response with completion by September 9, 2026; and a $51,300 delivery order from July 2025 providing a D6 dozer, transport, and personnel to the Sierra Nevada region for wildfire suppression.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. One hundred percent of recent awards—all nine—fund two Department of Agriculture entities: the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (5 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest Region (4 awards, $378 thousand combined potential value). Rowley Engineering holds four indefinite delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system: two contracts valued at $500,000 each (awarded February 6, 2026, running through 2028 and 2030, respectively) and two contracts at $250,000 each (awarded June 9, 2023, and May 22, 2025, both running through their respective ultimate completion dates). These IDCs cover heavy equipment procurement for Regions 5 and 6 (West Zone, including California, Oregon, and Washington) and operate on an on-call, multiple-award basis. Delivery orders drawn from these IDCs have ranged from $22,192 to $237,186.

Activity has been episodic—one award in 2020, one in 2021, one in 2023, three in 2025, and three in 2026—with a combined potential value across all nine awards of $2.1 million. Of that amount, $378 thousand has been obligated (18% of total potential). Two of the four IDCs (valued at $500,000 each) do not expire until 2028 and 2030, positioning the vendor for continued Forest Service incident work in the western region, though the delivery orders awarded to date represent modest cash flow relative to IDC ceilings.

all heavy equipment/earth moving equipment