Chalmers Ford, Inc.

Chalmers Ford, Inc. MHQ Of New Mexico Division sells emergency vehicle upfitting and automotive repair services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open solicitations with no recurrent set-aside posture. The company is a for-profit organization headquartered in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, specializing in the installation of emergency lighting, sirens, striping packages, and radio consoles on fire command vehicles, utility trucks, and law enforcement patrol vehicles for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.

Chalmers Ford's customer concentration is extreme. The top five funding agencies account for 66% of award volume, but the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern Region (Region 3) dominates decisively — 11 awards worth $4.1 million in combined potential value, representing 77% of the vendor's total recent award dollars. The Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) of the same agency accounts for a second $949 thousand across two awards. The Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior are minor contributors. Recent capability work includes a $506,463.62 firm-fixed-price BPA call with USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region to upfit Ford and Chevrolet pickup trucks, utility bed trucks, and SUVs for fire program operations in Arizona (awarded March 2024); a $225,820.52 BPA call with USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region to upfit fire command vehicles for Carson, Cibola, and Santa Fe National Forests in New Mexico (awarded April 2023); and a $174,182.48 purchase order with USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region to outfit nine fire utility trucks and one fire dozer transport truck for the Angeles National Forest in California (awarded June 2024, designated Total Small Business set-aside). Outside the dominant Forest Service portfolio, Chalmers Ford holds a $59,549.23 small-business-set-aside purchase order with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for upfitting three 2023 Chevrolet Trailboss vehicles with law enforcement equipment for New Mexico wildlife refuges, and recent purchase orders from the Department of Energy Albuquerque Field Office for IC truck builds ($24,691.95, September 2026) and auto repair work ($15,355.86, September 2026).

Chalmers Ford places task orders under Blanket Purchase Agreement 127EAV21A0010 (10 task orders, $3.1 million combined potential value), a USDA Forest Service engineering fleet fire command vehicle uplift vehicle serving the Southwestern and Pacific Southwest Regions. The vendor's award activity declined from five awards in 2021 to one in 2022, recovered to four in 2023 and six in 2024, and shows three awards in 2026 year-to-date. Only two awards (combined potential value $40 thousand) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime (31 of 32 awards), with a single sub-award from CACI, Inc.–Federal in January 2024 for miscellaneous hardware on a non-federal services contract. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, Chalmers Ford invoiced $775 thousand in FY2024 under a single prime record supporting 1.3 FTEs; SCI data for FY2023 shows zero invoiced amount. The government-paid hourly rate on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran at a constant $296.51 per hour across all percentiles. The vendor does not routinely subcontract on its own prime work — across SCI-reportable contracts, zero percent of hours were performed by named subcontractors.