Bull Creek Forestry Inc.

Bull Creek Forestry Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Seeley Lake, Montana, delivers heavy equipment deployment and forestry services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, operating predominantly on full-and-open federal contracts with selective participation in small business set-asides across specialized procurement vehicles. The company competes across both set-aside and unrestricted deliveries: roughly 40% of its contract portfolio sits on total small business set-aside Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, while the remainder flows through full-and-open delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements with the Forest Service across multiple regions.

Bull Creek Forestry's capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment operation and deployment for wildland firefighting, forest management, and infrastructure maintenance. The company supplies specialized machinery including skidders, dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, log trucks, and pumper cats, along with trained and certified personnel for 16-hour daily operational shifts during incident response and prescribed project work. Representative work spans a $317,480 delivery order (September 2025, no set-aside) through the Forest Service for equipment deployment in Kamiah, Idaho; a $155,000 delivery order (July 2024, no set-aside) for wildfire management in the Northern Region; and a $120,800 delivery order (August 2025, no set-aside) for forestry services and heavy equipment in Dillon, Montana. The company also holds task orders averaging $40,000–$70,000 across its smaller incident response contracts, reflecting the rapid-deployment, short-duration nature of fire suppression and emergency management work.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which accounts for 100% of named awards. The Forest Service's Region 1 (Northern Region) dominates the footprint, driving 60 awards and $104.5 million in combined potential value—roughly 95% of all portfolio value. The National Interagency Fire Center, administratively linked to Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management, issued 21 awards valued at $3.4 million for heavy equipment provisioning. Forest Service regions 2, 3, and 4 collectively represent less than 1% of the portfolio. This concentration is asymmetric: while the Northern Region dwarfs dollar value, the company's work is distributed across nine Forest Service administrative offices and interagency partners.

Bull Creek Forestry holds six primary contract vehicles anchoring its business development. The Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (FERM) Blanket Purchase Agreement, a $50 million, ten-year single-award vehicle running through August 2033, provides the largest ceiling and covers road construction, maintenance, and related services across Regions 1 and 4. The Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA, also valued at $50 million and running through October 2032, supports forest management and restoration across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Four Virtual Incident Procurement I-BPAs, each with $250,000 ceilings and total small business set-asides, furnish rapid-deployment heavy equipment for specific geographic zones and equipment classes (heavy equipment task forces, heavy equipment with water, miscellaneous heavy equipment, and heavy equipment with water variants). These I-BPAs extend through 2028–2030. The top five vehicles by task-order volume generated 35 awards and $2.2 million in combined potential value, with the remaining portfolio distributed across smaller incident-specific purchase orders and delivery orders.

Activity has grown modestly over the past five years, trending from nine awards in 2022 to a peak of thirteen in 2025, with six awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. Obligated spending stands at $5.3 million against a combined potential value of $109.6 million, indicating that most awards carry unexercised ceilings typical of indefinite-delivery vehicles and incident-based contracts. The company competes exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint appears in the source. By NAICS and PSC coding, 97 of 100 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 561730), and 93 awards map to the Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC category, reflecting a highly specialized capability set aligned to Forest Service mission needs.