Braun Equipment Inc.

Braun Equipment Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone firm based in Cottonwood, California, supplies heavy machinery and equipment for wildland fire prevention, suppression, and land management operations across the western United States as a prime contractor on federal delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and for-profit organization that competes exclusively under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations, with no recorded subcontract footprint.

Braun's customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service divisions. The top four distinct customer agencies account for 100% of awards, dominated by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (seven awards, $2.3 million combined potential value) and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5–Pacific Southwest Region (24 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value). The Pacific Southwest Region customer, despite carrying higher award count, ranks second by dollar value; the National Interagency Fire Center anchors most potential dollars through larger indefinite-delivery contract vehicles. The vendor also serves the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 2–Rocky Mountain Region and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as separate entities within Forest Service operations, collectively rounding out the customer base.

Braun holds five active indefinite-delivery contracts issued through the National Interagency Fire Center or USDA Forest Service, all set aside for total small business and carrying ceilings between $250,000 and $500,000 each. The top parent vehicle by task-order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7504 (15 task orders, $940 thousand combined potential value), followed by four smaller IDCs anchoring another $667 thousand in combined potential value. Representative delivery-order work includes a $70,000 Total Small Business order from the Pacific Southwest Region in August 2026 for fire prevention equipment delivery to Solvang, California; an $83,255 Total Small Business order from the Rocky Mountain Region in July 2026 for equipment procurement in Pueblo, Colorado; and a $215,571.66 delivery order from the Pacific Southwest Region in August 2024 for dozers, excavators, water trucks, and heavy equipment supporting fire suppression operations in northern California.

The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on equipment rental and delivery—specifically dozers, excavators, water trucks, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and miscellaneous heavy machinery—for fire suppression, hazard mitigation, prescribed project work, and all-hazard incident response. Braun maintains California depots in Eureka, Cottonwood, and Alturas positioned close to dispatch centers to enable rapid emergency equipment deployment. Task orders typically span one to four weeks of performance and carry firm fixed-price structures, ranging from $4,600 to $215,571.66 across the recent award portfolio.

Activity grew from six awards in 2022 to a peak of twelve in 2024, then declined to three in 2025 and four in 2026 year to date. The vendor holds $4 million in combined potential value across 36 prime awards (100% of footprint), with $1.8 million obligated to date—44% drawdown against potential ceiling. No awards approach completion within the next twenty-four months that would trigger significant recompete exposure; the oldest active IDC runs through June 2025, but the majority of contract vehicles and delivery orders do not complete until 2028–2029, positioning recompete risk downstream rather than in the immediate pipeline.

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