Clayton J Graham Inc.

Clayton J Graham Inc., a for-profit small business based in Lincoln, California, supplies heavy equipment rentals and water truck services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides, competing in full-and-open procurements restricted to small businesses via the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) program.

Clayton J Graham Inc. operates across a tight geographic and mission footprint. The vendor holds multiple indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center (the Fire and Aviation Management arm of USDA Forest Service) and performs 98 percent of its work supporting Forest Service wildland fire suppression, land conservation, and emergency incident response operations in the Pacific Southwest region (Region 5) and adjacent west-zone regions. The company provides dozers, excavators, potable and gray water trucks, trailer-mounted hand washing stations, and miscellaneous heavy equipment on a daily rental basis (typically up to 16-hour shifts) to federal and cooperating-agency dispatch centers during fire season and land management operations. Recent delivery orders include a $111,186.99 order awarded August 15, 2024, for heavy equipment rental in Grass Valley, California; a $205,287 delivery order awarded September 19, 2023, for equipment and water trucks supporting wildfire operations in the same location; and a $254,449.30 order from September 6, 2023, also for wildland fire support. The vendor also holds a small number of purchase orders for discrete garbage dumpster and container services (three awards totaling roughly $42,000 in August 2026) and water truck rental (one $22,400 purchase order in May 2026 to the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region).

Customer concentration is extreme. USDA Forest Service accounts for 99 percent of combined potential value, split between the National Interagency Fire Center ($4 million across 11 awards), the R5–Pacific Southwest Region ($2 million across 28 awards), and the Federal Fire and Aviation Management office ($991 thousand across 14 awards). The vendor sits on eight active indefinite-delivery contracts, all total small business set-asides with ceilings of $250,000 to $750,000 each and performance periods extending through 2028–2030: five IDIQs awarded February 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center (water handling, heavy equipment for west zones, potable and gray water trucks, miscellaneous heavy equipment, totaling $2.75 million in combined ceiling), and three earlier IDCs awarded June 2023 through June 2025 for similar services (water handling and heavy equipment, totaling $750,000 in combined ceiling). Task orders are placed against these IDIQs on a demand basis during fire season; the top five parent vehicles generated 28 task orders and $1.7 million in combined potential value.

Activity has declined since 2023. The vendor received nine awards in 2022, six in 2023, and seven in 2024, then dropped to one award in 2025 before recovering to eight awards through August 2026. Combined potential value across all 61 awards stands at $7.4 million, with $2.9 million (39 percent) obligated to date. The vendor holds no subcontract positions and does not serve as a sub to other federal primes. The entire portfolio operates under firm fixed-price structures with no set-aside designations on individual task orders (the small business set-aside applies at the IDIQ vehicle level). Recompete risk is concentrated in the February 2026 vehicle awards, which reach their ultimate completion dates between June 2028 and June 2030, representing the next major cliff for renewal and competition.