Brush, David W

David W Brush Excavating, a sole proprietorship operating from Long Creek, Oregon, provides heavy equipment rental and operator services for wildfire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and forestry operations to federal land management agencies, competing exclusively on total small business set-asides as a prime contractor across Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center platforms.

The vendor operates at tactical scale: 27 total awards with a combined potential value of $3.2 million, of which $674 thousand has been obligated across a customer base of five federal agencies. All awards are prime contracts; the vendor holds no subcontractor relationships. Customer concentration is highly concentrated. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for eight awards worth $1.8 million in combined potential value, while the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (R6) leads by award count with sixteen orders totaling $1.3 million. The two rankings align on the same top customer, with a combined $3.1 million (97% of total potential value) flowing to Forest Service entities. Secondary customers include the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region ($26 thousand) and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 ($13 thousand), both under the Department of the Interior.

Brush, David W Excavating holds five Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all structured as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPA) administered through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The National Interagency Fire Center awarded two IDCs in February 2026 — one for $500 thousand (West Zone Heavy Equipment with Water for Regions 3, 5, and 6, completion May 30, 2030) and one for $500 thousand (Heavy Equipment for West Zone Regions 5 and 6, completion June 9, 2028). The Forest Service awarded a $250 thousand IDC on May 30, 2025 (VIPR I-BPA for West Zone Heavy Equipment with Water, completion May 30, 2030). Two earlier Forest Service IDCs remain active: a $250 thousand contract awarded June 9, 2023 (completion June 9, 2028) and a $250 thousand contract awarded June 2, 2022 (completion June 2, 2025). Task orders against these vehicles (BPA AG04H1B177060, IDCs 1204H120T7276, 12569R23T7513, 1204H119T7052, and 12569R26T7543) account for fifteen delivery orders across 2022–2026, with representative work including a $46.5 thousand delivery order issued September 9, 2026 for heavy equipment rental and operator services in Pendleton, Oregon (completion September 18, 2026), and a $51.15 thousand delivery order issued July 20, 2026 for equipment and operator services in Prineville, Oregon (completion July 30, 2026). Equipment supplied includes dozers, excavators, skidders, and payloaders with trained operators, deployed across Regions 3, 5, and 6 of the western United States. Activity was sporadic through 2023–2024 (one award per year) but accelerated in 2025–2026 (two and five awards, respectively), tracking with VIPR I-BPA awards. All work is classified under NAICS 113110 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The vendor competes exclusively on total small business set-asides with no full-and-open awards in the source record.