Cate Land Industries

Cate Land Industries Inc., doing business as Cate Land Fire, a veteran-owned small business based in Winnemucca, Nevada, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, forest stewardship services, and heavy equipment operations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company operates across NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes, with a footprint spanning wildfire suppression, prescribed burning, fuels reduction, vegetation management, and post-fire rehabilitation across Forest Service Regions 1 through 6 and the National Interagency Fire Center.

Cate Land Fire's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward USDA Forest Service regional offices and research stations. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 47% of recent awards, led by the National Interagency Fire Center (28 awards, $4.1 million combined potential value), the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (23 awards, $55.1 million), and the Forest Service Southwestern Region (12 awards, $1.2 million). By dollar value, however, the distribution shifts markedly: the Pacific Northwest Region (7 awards, $60 million) and Rocky Mountain Research Station anchor 93% of combined potential value across the portfolio, reflecting the company's multi-year blanket purchase agreements for stewardship contracting. Cate Land Fire holds four single-award stewardship BPAs with $50 million ceilings each — the Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA (Region 1, through October 2032), the Intermountain Stewardship BPA (Region 4, through October 2032), the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (Region 6, through October 2032), and the Pacific Southwest Stewardship BPA (Region 5, through October 2032) — plus a $7 million single-award BPA with the Missoula Technology and Development Center for disaster recovery heavy equipment. Three recent National Interagency Fire Center IDIQs for heavy equipment with water and miscellaneous heavy equipment across East Zone regions carry $500,000 ceilings each and run through 2028–2030. Representative task-order work includes a $837,875 Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA call awarded in September 2023 for forest health and vegetation management in Oregon through December 2025, a $350,460 Redmond Air Center BPA call for the same program in Bend, Oregon, a $212,873.60 delivery order from the Rocky Mountain Region in July 2026 for unspecified stewardship work in Delta, Colorado, and a $182,000 purchase order from the Pacific Northwest Region in August 2024 for a log processor/delimber for the Crazy Creek project.

Activity has declined year over year: 19 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 6 in 2026. Only one award (combined potential value $838 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete pressure. The portfolio spans 179 total awards across 20 customer agencies since 2001, with $239.2 million in combined potential value but only $10.9 million obligated (5%), indicating that the four regional stewardship BPAs and disaster recovery BPA dominate the ceiling value while task-order takedown remains sparse. Cate Land Fire operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract activity reported across the award portfolio. Service Contract Inventory records covering FY2023–FY2024 show minimal reporting: $68 thousand invoiced in FY2023 across 0.3 FTEs and $66 thousand in FY2024 across 0.1 FTEs, with government-paid hourly rates on those prime service contracts median around $203/hr (10th percentile $147/hr, 90th percentile $260/hr). SCI captures only a narrow slice of the company's federal revenue — the four regional stewardship BPAs and dozens of delivery orders do not trigger the $150,000 reporting threshold and are absent from SCI — and does not represent total enterprise revenue. Cate Land Fire competes as a Total Small Business set-aside vendor on National Interagency Fire Center IDIQs and mixed-designation (including full-and-open) Forest Service stewardship BPAs and region-specific vehicle awards, indicating a dual posture: small-business set-aside preference on incident response equipment IDIQs paired with open competition on large stewardship contracts where size-neutral procurement applies.

Fire Suppression/ Disaster Relief/ Fuels Reduction