Colorado West Contracting, Inc.

Colorado West Contracting, Inc., a small-business prime contractor based in Fruita, Colorado, provides road maintenance, construction, and heavy equipment services to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management across Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides.

The vendor's federal footprint is regionally concentrated and cyclical. Across 97 prime awards spanning the past five years, Colorado West has generated $28.3 million in combined potential value, with $5.3 million obligated to date (19% realization). The top two customer agencies account for 87% of recent awards by count and 99% of combined potential value: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) leads with 20 awards worth $24.2 million combined potential value, while the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region holds 42 awards worth $3.6 million combined potential value. The split reflects a single large Forest Service IDC vehicle dominating dollar exposure while BLM issues numerous smaller task orders. Eight distinct federal agencies appear across the footprint, with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission holding three awards of minor significance.

Colorado West's capability set centers on infrastructure support for public lands: road construction, maintenance, and grading; parking lot and recreation site improvements; heavy equipment rental and operation; drainage and vegetation management; cattleguard installation; and restroom facility construction. Recent representative work includes a $199,881.20 delivery order from the Forest Service Region 2 for high-clearance road maintenance across the Payette-Salmon-Challis Interagency Command Complex (awarded September 29, 2026, running through November 30, 2027); a $76,671.00 purchase order from the Forest Service for road blading and ditch cleaning on Forest Road 250 in the Rio Grande National Forest (April 2024); a $249,894.62 delivery order from BLM Colorado Region for heavy equipment services in Monte Vista (August 2023); and a $27,870.08 purchase order from BLM Colorado Region for cattleguard replacement at Kerr Gulch Road (September 2025). Awards split evenly between total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions, with no other socioeconomic designations in the source data.

Colorado West holds two active BLM Colorado Region single-award indefinite delivery contracts (each $480,000, expiring April 2025 with multiple task orders issued FY22–FY24) and recently secured a five-year, $20 million single-award IDC with the Forest Service Region 2 for road maintenance and forest support services across Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming (awarded July 1, 2025, running through June 2030). The vendor places task orders under five BLM IDCs identified in the top parent vehicles block, with eight to five orders per vehicle and combined potential values in the $244,000–$459,000 range. Work is performed at multiple locations across Colorado and the Mountain West, with administrative oversight at the Fruita headquarters.

Activity has declined from eight awards in 2022 to two in 2026, though the new Forest Service $20 million IDC (awarded in July 2025) signals significant recompete success and future revenue potential. Only three awards carry completion dates within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $289 thousand), presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime — no subcontract work appears in the source data.

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