Richard Deroche

Richard Deroche, doing business as R Construction, is a Native American-owned, minority-owned sole proprietorship based in North Browning, Montana, that provides emergency construction, water handling, and wildland fire support services to the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The vendor competes exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and holds two active IDIQs totaling $750,000 ceiling value that anchor the majority of its federal work.

R Construction's capability portfolio centers on water handling equipment procurement, trained personnel deployment, and emergency infrastructure repair for wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response across Forest Service regions in the western United States. Representative work includes a $84,525 delivery order from the Forest Service Intermountain Region (Region 4) for general construction and water handling services (August 2024), a $49,612.50 delivery order from the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) for emergency sewer repair and wildland fire equipment delivery in Eureka, California (August 2024), and a $52,000 delivery order from the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) for unspecified construction services in Durango, Colorado (July 2026, most recent award). The vendor also performs construction and repair work through smaller purchase orders, including a $3,180 emergency water line repair order from the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (January 2025) and a $5,160 construction services award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region (September 2023).

Customer concentration tracks heavily to the Forest Service. The top five customers by award count and combined potential value account for 77% and 90% of recent awards respectively. The Forest Service Northern Region (Region 1) leads by volume with 19 awards totaling $754,000 combined potential value, while the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollar concentration with 10 awards carrying $1.2 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region, the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, and the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region round out the active set with smaller order volumes.

R Construction holds three named IDIQs, all held with the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the Forest Service and supporting interagency cooperation by the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. The largest is a $500,000 multiple-award IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026, running through May 30, 2030, for water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel to support fire suppression and all-hazard incidents across Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; 11 task orders have been placed against this vehicle totaling $240,000 combined potential value. A second $250,000 IDIQ awarded May 30, 2025, also running through May 30, 2030, for the same scope and regions, carries 6 task orders valued at $219,000. A third $250,000 IDIQ awarded May 31, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of May 30, 2025, has generated 7 task orders totaling $255,000 combined potential value. The vendor also places work through Blanket Purchase Agreements, including AG0343B137091 (5 task orders, $132,000) and AG0343B167121 (4 task orders, $116,000), both tied to Forest Service operations.

Activity has remained modest and episodic across the source period. The vendor received five awards in 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, seven in 2025, and four through mid-2026. Combined potential value sits at $2.5 million across 52 awards, with $1 million (40%) obligated to date. No recompete cliff is evident; the two largest IDIQ vehicles extend through May 2030, and the third expires in May 2025, creating a concentrated recompete opportunity for that vehicle in the next twelve months. R Construction does not subcontract; all 52 awards are primes. The vendor's work across the source period has been categorized as Support Activities for Forestry (45 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (45 awards by PSC code), with secondary work in water and sewer infrastructure repair.

Support Activities for Forestry/ New Home Construction