Glenn Dobson

Glenn Dobson, operating as Dobson Contracting, a Native American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged sole proprietorship based in Burns, Oregon, provides wildland fire suppression and forestry services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competition, with all fifteen recent prime awards concentrated in the Pacific Northwest region.

Dobson Contracting's work centers on certified fallers, faller modules, vehicles, equipment, and incident-response supervision for wildfire and all-hazard operations. Representative recent awards include a $82,325 delivery order from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) issued July 13, 2024, for forestry management services in Oregon; a $42,275 delivery order from Region 6 issued August 5, 2024; and a $28,085 delivery order from Region 6 issued October 1, 2024. Two recent smaller awards from Region 6 carry total-small-business set-asides: a $22,250 delivery order issued July 25, 2026, for wildland fire suppression at Hines, Oregon, with completion by August 3, 2026, and a $17,800 delivery order issued July 17, 2026, for incident response at John Day, Oregon, also completing August 3, 2026.

Customer concentration is absolute — all fifteen awards fund Forest Service programs across two customer nodes: the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) at ten awards worth $262 thousand, and the National Interagency Fire Center at four awards worth $1 million in combined potential value. Dobson Contracting holds two indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring the NIFC relationship: a $500,000 multiple-award IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026, by NIFC under total small business set-aside, running through June 2, 2028, and authorizing fallers, modules, and supervision services across Forest Service Regions 5 and 6; and a $250,000 IDIQ awarded June 2, 2023, by Region 6 under small business set-aside, also running through June 2, 2028. Seven task orders placing $215 thousand against the first IDC and five task orders placing $104 thousand against the second represent the bulk of Dobson Contracting's recent revenue footprint.

Activity has been sporadic — four awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined potential value of $1.3 million across all fifteen awards. The vendor competes under both total small business set-asides and unrestricted competition; roughly half of recent awards carry set-aside designation. All work is classified under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code for natural resources/conservation forest-range fire suppression/presuppression. Place of performance encompasses field operations sites throughout Oregon and Washington's 20 million acres of managed forestland, with task orders typically firm fixed-price and completion windows measured in weeks to months.

25 years timber falling experience in logging operations, fire suppression, and land owner maintenance/clean up