Carbon Works LLC

Carbon Works LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Roseburg, Oregon, delivers carbon management analysis, heavy equipment rental and leasing, and water handling services for fire suppression and emergency response to the USDA Forest Service as a 100% prime contractor under total small business set-asides.

Carbon Works competes exclusively within set-aside vehicles. All thirty tracked awards carry total small business set-aside designations, with recent work split between small business delivery orders (ranging from $3,500 to $101,600 for carbon analysis and fire suppression support) and indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) anchoring the portfolio. The firm's service portfolio concentrates on two operational pillars: carbon management and emissions analysis for forest operations (NAICS 541512 equivalent support activities for forestry), and heavy equipment and water handling logistics for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard response (NAICS 488411 equivalent ground passenger transportation and equipment services). Representative delivery orders include a $68,720 firm fixed price order from USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) in August 2026 for water handling and fire suppression support in Sandy, Oregon; a $101,600 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 in August 2024 for carbon management and analysis services; and a $53,975 delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) in August 2023 for carbon-related forest management services.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) accounts for ten awards carrying $3.3 million in combined potential value (80% of the portfolio), while Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) generates seventeen awards worth $637 thousand (15% of the portfolio). Together these two USDA Forest Service components represent all tracked awards. By contrast, obligated dollars lag sharply behind ceiling values: $833 thousand obligated against $4.1 million in combined potential value across all awards (20% utilization), reflecting the short-duration, as-needed nature of delivery-order work against IDCs.

Carbon Works holds a robust position across fire-suppression IDCs awarded by NIFC. The firm maintains multiple vehicle-with-driver and heavy-equipment IDCs: a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for vehicle-with-driver services (Regions 5 & 6 West Zone) awarded February 6, 2026 through May 16, 2030; a $500,000 VIPR I-BPA for water handling (Region 6 Pacific Northwest) awarded February 6, 2026 through May 29, 2030; a $500,000 VIPR I-BPA for miscellaneous heavy equipment (Region 6 Pacific Northwest) awarded February 6, 2026 through May 12, 2030; and a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for heavy equipment (West Zone Regions 5 & 6) awarded June 9, 2023 through June 9, 2028. These four vehicles alone anchor 11 delivery orders under the firm's active portfolio. The top parent vehicle by obligated dollars is IDC 1202SB22T7824 (a water-handling contract), which has generated 11 task orders worth $481 thousand combined. Activity has remained consistent year to year (2022–2024: seven, six, and seven awards respectively), with a dip to three awards in 2025 and recovery to seven in 2026; no material recompete exposure is visible in the near term.

Carbon Works operates as a solo prime with no subcontract relationships in the source record. The firm's NAICS concentration (26 of 30 awards in Support Activities for Forestry, four in ground transportation) and PSC coding (all 30 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression) reflect a hyper-specialized positioning within USDA Forest Service emergency response and carbon-management procurement. The combined obligated-to-potential ratio ($833K / $4.1M) is consistent with the structure of NIFC blanket purchase agreements, where multiple task orders against pre-positioned capacity vehicles are issued at discretion as fire season and incident demand materializes.