Cate Land Industries

Cate Land Industries Inc., doing business as Cate Land Fire, a veteran-owned small business based in Winnemucca, Nevada, supplies wildland fire management equipment and forest stewardship services to the federal government as a prime contractor, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations on most awards, though holding multiple Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center.

Cate Land Fire's federal capability portfolio centers on wildland fire suppression equipment, fuels reduction services, and forest stewardship work across multiple regions. Representative prime work includes a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service's Northern Region for stewardship contracting across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota (awarded May 2023); a $50 million single-award BPA with the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station for land stewardship services in Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming through October 2032 (awarded May 2023); a $50 million single-award BPA with the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region for forest health and stewardship services in Oregon and Washington through October 2032 (awarded April 2023); and associated delivery orders under those agreements, including an $837,875 BPA call for vegetation management and fuels reduction in Oregon (awarded September 2023). Equipment-focused awards include a $182,000 purchase order from the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region for a log processor/delimber (awarded August 2024) and a $49,500 purchase order from the USDA's Idaho Region for a Dozer Type 2 for the Cottonwood Peak project (awarded June 2025).

Cate Land Fire's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, which accounts for the vast majority of both award count and dollar value. The top five customer agencies by potential value cover 93% of combined potential value and include the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region ($60 million), Rocky Mountain Research Station ($55.1 million), Pacific Southwest Region ($50.4 million), Northern Region ($50 million), and Missoula Technology and Development Center ($7 million). The Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads in award count with 28 awards totaling $3.3 million combined potential value, while the research and regional stewardship programs anchor the largest dollar commitments.

Cate Land Fire holds a substantial portfolio of parent vehicles, primarily Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service. The top five vehicles include IDC 1284M819T7058 (21 task orders, $692 thousand combined potential value) for heavy equipment with water across East Zone regions; IDC INL06PC90271 (19 task orders, $822 thousand combined potential value); IDC 1202SB21T7237 (13 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value); IDC INL10PC00282 (7 task orders, $561 thousand combined potential value); and IDC 1284M818T7080 (5 task orders, $342 thousand combined potential value). Recent IDV awards include multiple Total Small Business set-aside contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in February 2026 for heavy equipment with water and miscellaneous heavy equipment across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, each carrying $250,000 ceilings and extending through 2028–2030.

Award activity has declined materially over the past five years — 19 awards in 2022 falling to 7 in 2024 and 2 in 2025 — though three new awards arrived in early 2026. Of the 176 prime awards in the source, only one completion deadline falls within the next twenty-four months: a $838,000 award with ultimate completion by May 30, 2025, representing minimal near-term recompete exposure. Work is performed across multiple western United States regions including California, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, and Washington, spanning Forest Service Regions 1 through 6 and the National Interagency Fire Center.

Cate Land Fire operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract volume in the source. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $135 thousand across FY2023–FY2024 (0.3 FTEs in FY2023, 0.1 FTEs in FY2024), but this represents only a narrow slice of federal service contracts above the reporting threshold and excludes the vendor's substantial goods and equipment procurement activity, which comprises the vast majority of award value. SCI records show median government-paid hourly rates around $203/hr, with rates spanning $147–$260/hr across percentiles. The vendor's award portfolio is classified primarily under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry, 157 awards) and PSC codes for forest-range fire suppression and presuppression (102 awards), reflecting its core competency in wildland fire equipment and forest management services.

Fire Suppression/ Disaster Relief/ Fuels Reduction