Chapman Mike

Chapman Mike, doing business as Chapman Construction, operates as a small business sole proprietorship providing heavy equipment rentals, water handling services, transportation, excavation, and field support for wildland firefighting and forestry management as a prime contractor exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center. Chapman Construction competes across multiple total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and receives delivery orders on a full-and-open basis against legacy Forest Service regional IDVs.

Headquartered in Libby, Montana, Chapman Construction delivers concrete equipment-rental and emergency-response capabilities centered on fire suppression and land management operations. The vendor's service portfolio spans heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, graders, feller bunchers, mulchers), water handling equipment (water tenders and integrated systems), transportation, and trained field personnel available for up to 16-hour daily shifts. Capability grounding comes from delivery orders such as a $79,952 order from Forest Service Region 1 on August 5, 2026, for heavy equipment and field support for wildland firefighting; a $87,000 order from Region 1 on August 22, 2025, for equipment rentals and support; and a $73,732 order from Forest Service Region 3 on May 7, 2022, for construction services in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chapman Construction's work supports fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed project work across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9, with place of performance across multiple Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, and western locations.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 89 of 91 awards (98% coverage). Within USDA Forest Service, the National Interagency Fire Center carries 21 awards with $4.9 million combined potential value, while Forest Service Region 1-Northern Region carries 64 awards with $3 million combined potential value. Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 6 represents the sole non-USDA customer, with one $566 thousand award. This concentration creates meaningful recompete risk; the vendor's total combined potential value is $8.7 million across 91 awards, with $3.1 million obligated to date (36% execution rate).

Chapman Construction holds a portfolio of nine primary small business set-aside IDVs awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service. The NIFC awarded six multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts on February 6, 2026 (with ultimate completion dates ranging to 2030), each valued at $250,000 to $500,000: heavy equipment with water capabilities for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (two vehicles), water handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (two vehicles), and miscellaneous heavy equipment for Regions 1, 2, and 4. Forest Service Region 1-Northern Region and the National Interagency Fire Center also awarded earlier-generation IDVs (ultimate completion dates to May 2025) valued at $250,000 each for heavy equipment, water handling, and miscellaneous equipment across Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9. Against these vehicles, Chapman Construction has received delivery orders through the VIPR system; the top five parent vehicles account for 44 task orders and $1.62 million in combined potential value. Most recent delivery orders from August 2026 against Region 1 carry total small business set-aside designations; earlier awards from 2022–2024 predominantly show no set-aside used, suggesting a shift toward reserved contracting posture on the newer NIFC contracts.

Award volume shows instability. Chapman Construction received nine awards in 2022, eight in 2023, three in 2024, four in 2025, and seven year-to-date in 2026 through August. The 2024 dip reflects contract maturation and transition to the newer NIFC VIPR vehicles; recent activity (2025–2026) stabilizes around four to seven orders annually. Chapman Construction competes 100 percent as a prime contractor with no subcontract relationships in the source data; the entire portfolio consists of direct Forest Service and Fire Center delivery orders. NAICS coding shows 90 of 91 awards under Support Activities for Forestry (code 115310), with one award under All Other Specialty Trade Contractors. PSC alignment is similarly concentrated: 86 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation – Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with scattered awards in land treatment, recreation maintenance, and defense R&D.

Chapman Construction's federal footprint is operationally narrow but materially significant within the USDA wildland fire and emergency response mission. The vendor serves as a repeatable capacity provider for equipment and personnel mobilization through pre-positioned VIPR contracts, enabling the Forest Service and NIFC to rapidly acquire specialized resources during seasonal fire activity and all-hazard response without procurement delay. Recompete opportunity for competitors arises primarily from the February 2026 NIFC contract cohort (nine vehicles, $4.25 million combined ceiling), which will conclude sequentially from 2028 to 2030.

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