A.l. Brinkoetter

A.L. Brinkoetter, a veteran-owned sole proprietorship based in Winnemucca, Nevada, operates as a prime contractor providing equipment rental and personnel services for wildland fire suppression, forestry management, and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management across multiple western regions. The vendor competes exclusively under small-business set-asides (Total Small Business designations predominate across its Indefinite Delivery Contract and Blanket Purchase Agreement portfolio) and holds no positions on government-wide contract vehicles or agency-wide IDIQs outside the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center ecosystem.

Brinkoetter's concrete capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment rental — feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders, excavators, and dozers — alongside water handling equipment (potable and gray water trucks, handwashing stations), generators, illumination units, and certified personnel deployment to support dispatch timelines during wildfire and incident response operations. Recent representative work includes a $108,069.30 Total Small Business delivery order from the U.S. Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) awarded June 30, 2026, for equipment rental and support services with completion targeted for July 17, 2026 in Monroe, Utah; a $63,241.36 firm fixed-price delivery order from the same region awarded August 6, 2025, for heavy equipment deployment in Venice, Utah; and a $31,705 Total Small Business purchase order from the Forest Service Idaho Region awarded June 1, 2025, for excavator rental supporting the Conner Fire incident response effort in Boise, Idaho.

Customer concentration is acute and regional. The top five funding entities account for 64% of awards and 86% of combined potential value, led overwhelmingly by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (32 awards, $5.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region (11 awards, $1.1 million), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (14 awards, $910 thousand), and Forest Service regional offices in the Southwestern and Intermountain regions. Activity remains steady but modest — five awards in 2022, three in 2023, seven in 2024, three in 2025, and five in 2026 year-to-date — with 122 total awards recorded in the source data spanning from June 2003 to June 2026.

Brinkoetter holds nine Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements with the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service, all awarded between May 2022 and February 2026, with ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 each. Four recently awarded IDCs (February 6, 2026) carry Total Small Business set-asides with $500,000 ceilings covering potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations for Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region), heavy equipment for the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), miscellaneous heavy equipment for East Zone (Regions 1, 2, and 4), and additional water handling equipment for East Zone regions — all extending through 2028 and 2029. Task orders against these vehicles and predecessor BPAs span western states including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, with individual delivery order values ranging from $15,210.60 to $105,783.55. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no recorded subcontract footprint, and its NAICS profile concentrates on Support Activities for Forestry (71 awards) and Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (33 awards), with PSC work predominantly coded under Natural Resources/Conservation – Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (85 awards).