Calanchini, Inc.

Calanchini, Inc., doing business as VC Construction, is a woman-owned small business based in Tehachapi, California, that provides heavy equipment and certified personnel services to the USDA Forest Service, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on total small business set-aside delivery orders and Indefinite Delivery Contracts focused on wildland fire suppression and forest management in the Pacific Southwest Region.

VC Construction's entire ten-award federal footprint (combined potential value $2.3 million) concentrates with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split between the National Interagency Fire Center (five awards, $1.8 million combined potential value) and Region 5, the Pacific Southwest Region (four awards, $473 thousand combined potential value). All awards fall under NAICS Support Activities for Forestry and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The vendor holds four Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) structured as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system: two $500,000 ceiling contracts awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center (one running through June 9, 2028, the other through June 13, 2029) for heavy equipment serving West Zone Regions 5 and 6 and Region 5 respectively; and two $250,000 ceiling contracts awarded June 13, 2024, and June 9, 2023, also by the National Interagency Fire Center, for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 5. These IDCs support emergency-response dispatch of feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, and excavators, along with certified personnel.

Recent delivery-order activity against the IDC portfolio includes a $136,400 firm fixed-price order issued August 29, 2026 (completion September 19, 2026) for equipment and personnel services in Solvang, California; a $187,250 order from September 1, 2025, for performance in Solvang; a $95,706 order from September 10, 2024; and a $53,170 order from September 28, 2024. Activity has grown from one award in 2021 to four in 2024, with three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $560 thousand, representing 24% of combined potential value. VC Construction does not hold government-wide vehicles, sit as a subcontractor, or maintain award relationships outside the Forest Service ecosystem; the vendor's positioning is singularly dependent on VIPR I-BPA reorders and Forest Service region-specific IDC task orders for wildland fire and all-hazard incident support.