Robert S Murray

Robert S Murray, doing business as Bob Murray Logging, LLC, a sole proprietorship based in Roseburg, Oregon, supplies heavy equipment rental, forestry services, and trained personnel to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations across individual task orders. The company operates primarily under Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, which structure the underlying vehicles as small-business-only but permit task orders to be competed or awarded without further set-aside restrictions.

Bob Murray Logging's customer base concentrates heavily with the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, which accounts for 100% of the 210 recent awards in the source data. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) anchors the portfolio with 159 awards valued at $7.1 million combined potential value, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center with 37 awards at $4.5 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region holds 3 awards at $770 thousand, with the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) representing a smaller footprint of 2 awards at $87 thousand. This extreme concentration—with Region 6 alone representing 76% of all awards—reflects the company's deep roots in Pacific Northwest wildland fire and forest management operations.

Capability work flows through two concrete service channels. Equipment rental comprises excavators, dozers, skidders, log loaders, and water-equipped apparatus for fire suppression, deployed with trained personnel. Forestry and land management services include vegetation management, timber harvesting, wildfire suppression and prevention, hazardous fuel reduction, firebreak construction, and emergency incident response across Oregon, Washington, California, and New Mexico. Representative examples include a $269,282 delivery order from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for forestry services and equipment support ending September 30, 2024; a $184,250 firm fixed-price order for the same customer ending October 2, 2023; a $207,095 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington for road and bridge repairs in Roseburg through March 30, 2024; and a $240,000 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management for 4,000 tons of chip seal aggregate delivery completed June 1 through July 31, 2026.

Bob Murray Logging holds five primary IDC vehicles, all awarded February 6, 2026 or earlier with $250,000 ceilings and five-year performance periods through 2028–2030: one for West Zone heavy equipment with water across Regions 3, 5, and 6; one for vehicles with drivers in Regions 5 and 6; one for heavy equipment in Regions 5 and 6; and one for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 6 only. An additional vehicle awarded May 30, 2025 carries similar terms for heavy equipment with water across Regions 3, 5, and 6. Task orders against these vehicles have ranged from $4,000 to $269,282, with the top five parent vehicles (the 45-task-order BPA AG04H1B177039 at $1.4 million combined potential value, and four IDCs with 19–36 task orders each) accounting for the bulk of recent activity. Activity has declined year over year—from 33 awards in 2024 to 10 in 2025 and 6 in 2026—with only one award carrying an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months ($240 thousand, the June 2026 BLM chip seal purchase order already complete).

The company competes exclusively as a prime contractor; the source reports zero subcontract awards. Bob Murray Logging's NAICS footprint is concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (203 of 210 awards), with a nominal presence in crushed stone mining (3 awards) and ground passenger transportation (3 awards). Primary Service Code 3820 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression) represents 207 of 210 awards, confirming that wildland fire, fuels management, and related emergency response form the operational core.