Caldbeck Logging Incorporated

Caldbeck Logging Incorporated, doing business as Caldbeck Logging Inc., a woman-owned small business subchapter S corporation based in Polson, Montana, provides timber harvesting, logging services, and specialized heavy equipment rental to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple regions as a prime contractor, operating 100% under prime awards and competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on National Interagency Fire Center indefinite delivery contracts while executing full-and-open delivery orders and purchase orders against Forest Service regional timber-sale operations.

Caldbeck Logging's capability portfolio centers on timber harvesting and forest management support for planned timber sales across multiple Forest Service regions, complemented by equipment leasing of heavy machinery including feller bunchers, graders, skidders, mulcher masticators, log loaders, log trucks, and water-capable vehicles (skidgines and pumper cats) for wildland fire suppression, disaster relief, and contingency response operations. Recent named work includes a $77,968.89 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) awarded August 31, 2026, for forestry services in Hamilton, Montana; a $294,257 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) for timber harvesting and logging support on the Pyramid and Willamette Complex sales near Bend, Oregon, awarded August 12, 2024; and a $187,336 purchase order from Region 1 for log loader services supporting the East Fork timber sale near Libby, Montana, awarded August 18, 2023.

Customer concentration is heavily Forest Service–dominated. The top five customer entities (by award count) account for 82% of recent awards, led by Forest Service Region 1–Northern Region (23 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value) and the National Interagency Fire Center (9 awards, $3 million combined potential value). By potential value, the NIFC's nine indefinite delivery contracts drive $3 million (56% of total combined value), while Region 1 trails at $1.5 million. Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) contributes one award valued at $294 thousand; Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) four awards at $163 thousand; Region 3 (Southwestern) two awards at $152 thousand. Across the portfolio, 48 of 50 awards carry PSC code Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with the remaining two classified under equipment rental.

Caldbeck Logging holds nine multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center running through 2030, all total small business set-asides with individual ceilings of $250,000 or $500,000, covering heavy equipment deployment across Forest Service East Zone regions (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 in various combinations). These contracts operate under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system for rapid mobilization of private-sector fire-suppression and disaster-relief equipment. Delivery orders and purchase orders against Forest Service regional multiple-award contract vehicles account for the remainder of the prime footprint, with the largest single parent vehicle being Blanket Purchase Agreement 12034318T7077 (8 task orders, $296 thousand combined value).

Awards per year show activity volatility—four awards in 2022, six in 2023, two in 2024, six in 2025, and four in 2026 year-to-date—with combined potential value across all 50 awards at $5.4 million and combined obligated dollars at $1.9 million (36% drawn). Caldbeck Logging executes no subcontract work in the source data (zero of 50 awards are sub-awards), maintaining a wholly prime posture. The vendor's first award in the source data is dated September 15, 2001, indicating an established operational history, though recent activity suggests a vendor primarily focused on western forest management and emergency equipment supply with no geographic diversification or federal customer concentration beyond the Forest Service system.

A mechanized logging company, all phases of logging. We support wildland fire suppression. 44 years of experience in the timber industry.