Cutthroat Land Management, LLC

Cutthroat Land Management, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Basin, Montana, is a prime contractor delivering heavy equipment, land management services, and personnel support for forestry, fire suppression, and emergency incident response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a sole operator (100% prime awards, zero subcontract footprint). The firm competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and holds multiple indefinite-delivery contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Cutthroat's customer base is concentrated entirely within USDA Forest Service programs across four regional components. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors 12 awards worth $4.3 million combined potential value and drives the largest share of dollars, while Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) represents the highest volume of awards—16 contracts worth $2.7 million combined potential value. Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) and the broader Forest Service organization account for the remaining awards. All four entities map to the same funding agency (USDA), reflecting singular-customer concentration with regional and functional segmentation.

The vendor holds eight active IDVs on the VIPR system, each issued by the National Interagency Fire Center with ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 and performance periods extending through 2028–2031. These vehicles cover specialized service categories: heavy equipment task force services (Regions 1 and 4, $500,000 ceiling through May 2030), mechanic services with service trucks (East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, $250,000 ceiling through August 2031), water handling systems (Regions 1, 2, 4, 9, multiple ceilings ranging $250,000–$500,000 through May 2030), potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations (Regions 1, 2, 4, $250,000–$500,000 through May 2029–2031), miscellaneous heavy equipment such as feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, and skidders (Regions 1, 2, 4, $250,000–$500,000 through May 2029–2031), and off-highway vehicles (multi-region, $250,000 through August 2031). Concrete recent task-order work under these vehicles includes a $363,707 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 for land management services and heavy equipment support (July 2026), a $482,805 delivery order for heavy equipment task force services in Kamiah, Idaho (September 2025), and a $388,320 purchase order for logging equipment—a log loader and two logging trucks—to Forest Service Region 1 (August 2026).

Activity has accelerated sharply—from two awards in 2023 to seventeen in 2026 year-to-date—generating a combined potential value of $7.2 million across thirty-three prime contracts and IDVs, with $2.9 million obligated to date (41% execution rate). Work is performed at multiple locations across the Northern Rockies and upper Midwest, including Hamilton, Dillon, Kalispell, and Kamiah (Idaho), with place-of-performance locations spanning Forest Service Regions 1, 2, and 4, as well as northern Minnesota (Crane Lake). The vendor operates exclusively under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and secondary NAICS 238990 (Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery Equipment Rental) with PSC coding aligned to forest fire suppression and natural-resources conservation. No recompete cliff is visible in the source data; recent awards carry completion dates in August and September 2026, positioning the vendor for rolling task-order replenishment rather than cliff-driven recompete.

logging, forest fire mitigation, and log road building. Equipment/log transport.