Creel Cutting, Inc.

Creel Cutting, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Rio Rico, Arizona, delivers specialized forestry services and wildland firefighting equipment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor operating entirely under small business set-asides on Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vehicles. The company holds SBA certifications as both an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), positioning it to compete within the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) I-BPA program for rapid response to wildfire suppression and land management needs.

Creel Cutting's concrete capability footprint centers on timber harvesting, vegetation management, fuels reduction, and provision of specialized personnel and equipment—fallers, dozers, chippers, and transport vehicles—to support active wildfire suppression, prescribed burn work, and forest health operations across multiple Forest Service regions. Representative awards include a $136,000 delivery order (July 2024) for forestry services in Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) under the firm fixed-price VIPR I-BPA for chippers, a $62,999.79 delivery order (September 2024) for timber harvesting and equipment support in Region 4 (Intermountain) based in Boise, Idaho, and a $96,850 purchase order (August 2024) for a specialized Type 1 chipper to support the Homestead Complex in Roseburg, Oregon. Most recent work includes a $56,999.81 delivery order (July 2026) under a Total Small Business set-aside for Region 9 (Eastern Region), with place of performance in Duluth, Minnesota.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Forest Service across regional structures. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 50 awards and $1.9 million in combined potential value, while the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (the contracting authority for VIPR I-BPA vehicles) holds 17 awards valued at $3.2 million in combined potential value. This dual structure reflects Creel Cutting's role as both a delivery-order recipient under regional operations and a holder of preseason incident blanket purchase agreements issued centrally through NIFC. The remaining three regional offices (R3, R4, R9) account for $125 thousand across three awards, representing occasional or emerging penetration outside the Pacific Northwest.

Creel Cutting holds multiple VIPR I-BPA Indefinite Delivery Contracts under NIFC, all structured as firm fixed price, multiple award, total small business set-asides with $250,000 ceilings over 5-year ordering periods. Active vehicles include those for fallers in West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (awarded June 2, 2023, ultimate completion June 2, 2028), chippers in Regions 5 and 6 (awarded February 6, 2026, completion May 28, 2029), heavy equipment for Regions 3 and 8 (awarded February 6, 2026, completion May 1, 2028), and fallers for Region 3 (awarded February 6, 2026, completion April 25, 2028). The largest ordering vehicle by task-order count is IDC 12569R23T7059 (32 task orders, $1.1 million), followed by 1204H120T7058 (15 task orders, $496 thousand). All task orders under these vehicles are issued without set-aside designation at the order level but flow from parent vehicles reserved for small businesses.

Activity grew from nine awards in 2022 to a peak of nineteen in 2024, then declined to eleven in 2025 and six in 2026 year to date, reflecting the seasonal nature of wildland firefighting procurement. Creel Cutting has accumulated $5.3 million in combined potential value across 70 awards, with $2.3 million (43%) obligated as of the most recent data snapshot. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no sub-award footprint in the source data, indicating a direct-delivery model. Nearly all work is classified under NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry), with marginal exposure to equipment rental categories. Creel Cutting competes entirely within set-asides, exclusively through EDWOSB and WOSB designations on the Forest Service's VIPR I-BPA platform, which restricts competition to certified small businesses and reduces exposure to full-and-open procurements.