Darrah Logging, Inc.

Darrah Logging, Inc., a HUBZone-certified small business based in Mt. Shasta and Eureka, California, provides timber harvesting, hazardous fuels reduction, equipment rental, and wildland firefighting support services exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple regions in the western United States. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes entirely under full-and-open designations; however, most of its underlying contract vehicles (IDCs and BPAs) were awarded as total small business set-asides through the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, which anchors the company's competitive posture in federal procurement.

Darrah Logging's customer concentration is extreme. The Forest Service dominates the award portfolio: 205 of 216 awards (95% coverage) flow through various Forest Service offices, with the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounting for 147 awards and $11.8 million in combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center, administering on behalf of the Forest Service, holds nine awards worth $3.3 million combined potential value. Across all Forest Service lines, the vendor has generated $19.2 million in combined potential value and $13.2 million obligated (69% execution rate). The remaining six awards include two to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. No subcontract footprint exists in the source data; Darrah Logging operates entirely as a prime contractor.

Recent activity shows variable annual volume: 30 awards in 2022, 26 in 2023, 37 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 4 awards through early July 2026. The trajectory reflects seasonal demand and task-order issuance patterns typical of incident-driven forest service work rather than linear growth. The company holds six active VIPR-based IDCs and BPAs, each with $250,000 to $750,000 ceilings and performance periods extending through 2025 to 2030. Individual task orders under these vehicles range from $2,257 to $496,921, with the largest recent awards concentrated in July through September 2025 (peak wildfire season).

Capability portfolio spans timber harvesting (tree felling, timber removal, road development), hazardous fuels reduction, vegetation management, water handling for wildland firefighting (Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 water tenders), and equipment rental (feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders). Representative recent work includes a $496,921 delivery order (July 2025, Region 5) for logging and equipment support; a $335,586 delivery order (July 2024, Region 5) for timber harvesting and fuels reduction; and a $230,732 delivery order (June 2024, Region 5) for logging services. The company has also executed sub-work as a water tender operator supporting federal wildland firefighting, providing over $80,000 in water handling support on fire incidents. All work is performed on firm fixed-price delivery order basis across the western United States, with primary operational footprint in Eureka and Redding, California and Yreka, California.

Parent vehicles anchor 161 task orders across five named IDCs and BPAs: IDC 1202SB22T7699 (61 task orders, $3.2 million); BPA AG9J61B167212 (29 task orders, $999 thousand); IDC 12569R23T7563 (25 task orders, $1.8 million); BPA AG9J61B137173 (20 task orders, $2.7 million); and IDC 129J6125T7120 (14 task orders, $781 thousand). All six parent vehicles carry total small business set-aside designations and operate under VIPR, enabling the Forest Service to issue delivery orders rapidly for seasonal and emergency response activities.

The vendor's capability classification is heavily concentrated in NAICS 541711 (Support Activities for Forestry), which encompasses 212 of 216 awards. PSC coding reflects the same posture: 210 awards carry PSC code R299 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). This singular focus—Forest Service wildland and forest management work—creates both depth and concentration risk; the company has no meaningful presence in other federal customers or agency portfolios and lacks diversification into defense, civilian IT, or other sectors typical of larger federal contractors.