Chaparral Construction L.L.C.

Chaparral Construction L.L.C., a HUBZone-certified small business based in La Veta, Colorado, provides heavy equipment services, construction, and emergency repair work to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and allied federal land-management agencies as a prime contractor, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurement with no set-asides deployed across its award footprint despite HUBZone eligibility.

Chaparral Construction's customer base is almost entirely concentrated within USDA Forest Service regional operations. The top five customers by both award count and potential value account for 93% of recent awards, with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) anchoring the portfolio at 39 awards and $6.4 million combined potential value, followed by the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center with 10 awards valued at $2.3 million. The remaining awards span Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain), generic Forest Service activity, and a single award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region. The two customer rankings track identically — regional concentration is absolute.

Chaparral's concrete capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment operation and deployment for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burns, and emergency response. Representative prime work includes a $64,231 delivery order from the Forest Service Region 4 (awarded September 2023) for timber and emergency repairs under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a $61,704 delivery order from Region 2 (June 2023) for construction services in Pueblo, Colorado, and a $30,038 purchase order from the USDA Idaho Region (June 2025) for dozer services. Chaparral holds eight Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) with the National Interagency Fire Center, each capped at $250,000, covering heavy equipment with water capabilities for East Zone regions spanning Forests Service Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, with equipment types including feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders, dozers, excavators, and specialized firefighting apparatus. Task orders against these IDCs typically specify up to 16-hour daily shift operations with personnel, transportation, and lodging costs embedded in rates.

Activity trended upward from 2022 through 2023 (1 award in 2022 to 9 in 2023) before declining sharply in 2024 and 2025 (2 awards per year), with 3 awards recorded in early 2026. The vendor holds no subcontract relationships in the source data. Work-category concentration is strong: Support Activities for Forestry accounts for 39 awards; Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction for 16 awards; and Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction for 4 awards. PSC-level concentration aligns tightly with Forest Service mission — Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression drives 31 awards, with Maintenance of Other Non-Building Facilities and Fire Fighting Equipment filling the secondary categories.