Cookson Samuel

Cookson Samuel, doing business as Cookson Construction, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and sole proprietorship based in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, supplies heavy equipment and certified personnel for wildfire suppression and prescribed burn operations to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime across all eight federal awards in the source data, with no subcontract activity.

Cookson Construction's award portfolio concentrates entirely within the USDA Forest Service fire-management mission. The National Interagency Fire Center (a USDA Forest Service component) accounts for four awards and $1 million in combined potential value, representing 50% of the vendor's total potential value across the portfolio. The Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (R5) holds two awards valued at $150 thousand combined, and the Forest Service's Federal Fire and Aviation Management office holds one award at $150 thousand. Together, these three customer sub-offices represent 88% of the vendor's award count and 98% of potential value. All work falls under NAICS 332323 (Support Activities for Forestry) or PSC code Q260 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression).

Cookson Construction holds four multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all structured as firm fixed price procurement vehicles reserved for total small business. Three IDCs are preseason incident blanket purchase agreements administered through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system: two covering miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers/masticators, road graders, skidders) for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 with ceilings of $250 thousand each and completion dates in 2029; and one covering heavy equipment for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 with a $250 thousand ceiling expiring June 4, 2028. A fourth IDC, also for heavy equipment in East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, carries a $250 thousand ceiling expiring June 4, 2028. All equipment and personnel are available up to 16 hours per day and include transportation and lodging costs.

Award activity is sparse and episodic—one award in 2013, one in 2016, one in 2023, one in 2024, and two in early 2026—with $25 thousand obligated against $1.3 million in combined potential value (2% obligation rate). This low draw-down suggests these are framework agreements with minimal task-order activity to date.