C4 Equipment & Fabrication, LLC

C4 Equipment & Fabrication, LLC Macie Division, a Women-Owned Small Business based in Cuero, Texas, supplies heavy equipment rental and deployment services for wildfire suppression and land management operations to the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior exclusively as a prime contractor operating under small-business set-asides. The company holds SBA certification as a women-owned small business and self-certifies as a small disadvantaged business; it competes 100% under set-asides, with all 32 recent prime awards designated as total small business set-asides or no-set-aside delivery orders against underlying set-aside IDIQs.

C4 Equipment & Fabrication's capability footprint centers on specialized heavy equipment rental and rapid deployment—feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders, and water-equipped machinery—to support emergency wildfire response, all-hazard incident management, and prescribed forestry work. Representative recent work includes a $791,403 firm fixed-price delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) awarded May 13, 2025, for heavy equipment deployment to Roanoke, Virginia; a $104,000 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) awarded August 14, 2026, for equipment and fabrication support in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and a $87,861 purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Idaho Region awarded June 1, 2025, for excavator delivery to Boise, Idaho. The company operates exclusively through the USDA Forest Service Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, which pre-positions equipment providers for rapid dispatch to incident response needs across multiple regions.

Customer concentration is extreme and agency-specific. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates the award footprint, accounting for 31 of 32 awards (97% coverage). Within USDA-FS, the National Interagency Fire Center anchors the largest dollar share with six awards carrying $2.3 million combined potential value—these are the underlying IDIQs themselves rather than task orders. USDA Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) places the highest task-order volume at 17 awards ($763 thousand combined potential value), followed by Region 8 (Southern Region) with three awards ($925 thousand combined potential value). A single Department of the Interior award appears in the source data, representing minimal diversification outside USDA-FS.

C4 Equipment & Fabrication holds five active VIPR Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center between May 2023 and February 2026. Two IDIQs carry $500,000 ceilings each (awarded February 6, 2026, running through 2028–2030 and covering Regions 3, 5, 6, and 8 for heavy equipment with water and miscellaneous heavy equipment respectively); three earlier IDIQs carry $250,000 ceilings each (awarded between May 2, 2023, and April 22, 2024, covering various region combinations). Task-order activity clusters under the two highest-ceiling vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB24T7086 has generated seven task orders ($1.2 million combined potential value), and Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB23T7196 has generated thirteen task orders ($597 thousand combined potential value). These IDIQs are firm fixed-price, multiple-award, total small business set-asides designed as pre-season agreements enabling rapid equipment dispatch across Forest Service regions and subordinate dispatch centers.

Activity has accelerated sharply. The company received four awards in 2023, four in 2024, seven in 2025, and fourteen in 2026—roughly a threefold increase year-over-year into the current year. However, most delivery orders are short-duration emergency-response contracts with completion dates measured in days to weeks, and obligated dollars ($2 million) represent 47% of combined potential value ($4.2 million), suggesting a substantial pipeline of awarded but not-yet-obligated work. C4 Equipment & Fabrication operates with no subcontract footprint and serves as prime contractor on 100% of its awards; the company competes under NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code R499 (miscellaneous heavy construction equipment rental), with 31 of 32 awards categorized under the Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC line item.

Performance locations span multiple USDA Forest Service regions—including Taos, Ute Park, and Alamogordo, New Mexico; Roanoke, Virginia; Cleveland, Tennessee; Delta and Pueblo, Colorado; and Boise, Idaho—reflecting the geographic distribution of VIPR dispatch requirements across federal land-management zones. The vendor's reliance on the VIPR system as the sole contracting mechanism creates exposure to policy changes or VIPR recompete, but the recent award acceleration and multi-region IDIQ footprint suggest sustained demand for rapid equipment deployment during active wildfire seasons and emergency response cycles.