D & S Underground, Inc.

D & S Underground, Inc., doing business as D & S, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Hotchkisch, Colorado, that provides heavy equipment rentals and underground utility services to federal wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor operates under a total small business set-aside posture across its federal footprint, with all 22 awards in the source data classified as prime contracts or IDIQs under total small business set-asides or no set-aside designation (the latter used when the vendor's HUBZone status alone qualifies the award). D & S is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and self-certifies as a small disadvantaged business.

D & S's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on equipment rental and underground utility work for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. The company operates a fleet including dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and tractor plows, with equipment available for deployment up to 16 hours per day to support incident response and prescribed project work across the western United States. Representative prime awards include a $70,500 delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Region (July 2026) for heavy equipment rentals supporting wildland fire suppression, a $71,336 purchase order from the Department of Agriculture Idaho Region (June 2025) for Type 3 dozer rental, and a $54,398 delivery order from the Rocky Mountain Region (August 2025) for equipment rental and underground utility services.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 10 awards with $2.4 million combined potential value (83% of dollars), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region carries 9 awards with $356 thousand combined potential value. Together these two customer entities account for 100% of awards. D & S holds five IDIQs with the National Interagency Fire Center: four multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts awarded February 6, 2026 (one $250,000 vehicle, two $500,000 vehicles, and one covering East Zone regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), and one $250,000 multiple-award contract awarded May 14, 2024. These IDIQs are structured as Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements running through 2028 and 2029, enabling rapid procurement of heavy equipment and services for the Forest Service and partner agencies. Two additional IDIQs sit with the Rocky Mountain Region under contract numbers COGMF and COSJF, both supporting underground utility and equipment services through 2028.

Activity has remained modest and cyclical. The vendor received four awards in 2021, four in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and five in 2026 (through August). Combined potential value across all 22 awards stands at $2.9 million, with $631 thousand obligated to date (22% of potential). The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor; no subcontract work appears in the source data. Across all awards, the top NAICS category is Support Activities for Forestry, and the top PSC codes are Natural Resources/Conservation and Fire Fighting Equipment, reflecting the vendor's specialization in wildland fire and emergency response support operations.

Created in 1994 acting as a general contractor, subcontractor and independent contractor in any and all capacities to facilitate site preparation for residential and commercial building structures, mining sites and forest land to include construction of foundations, all installation of service utilities, driveways, parking lots, demolition, airport runways, roads, construction of drill pads, reclamation to a natural state and snow removal. Building and cleaning ponds and general earth moving.