Chalmers Ford, Inc.

Chalmers Ford, Inc. MHQ Of New Mexico Division is a for-profit emergency vehicle upfitting contractor based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, that supplies and installs specialized equipment on federal law enforcement and wildfire management vehicles as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) under firm fixed-price purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls, competing without set-aside designations in full-and-open procurements, though with one recent total small business set-aside award.

Chalmers Ford specializes in the installation of emergency lighting packages, sirens, striping, radio consoles, and law enforcement ballistic components on pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, and utility bed trucks. The company's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on vehicle upfitting and equipment installation rather than manufacturing; recent representative work includes a $174 thousand total small business purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (June 2024) to outfit nine fire utility trucks and one fire dozer transport truck for the Angeles National Forest in California, a $506 thousand BPA call from the Forest Service Southwestern Region (March 2024) to upfit Ford and Chevrolet pickup trucks, utility bed trucks, and SUVs with emergency equipment in Mesa, Arizona, and a $59 thousand small business set-aside purchase order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (March 2024) to upfit three 2023 Chevrolet Trailboss law enforcement vehicles for New Mexico wildlife refuges.

Customer concentration is extreme. The top customer by both award count and potential value, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern Region (Region 3), accounts for 11 awards and $4.1 million of the vendor's $5.3 million combined potential value across all recent awards — roughly 77% of the contract footprint. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) represents a secondary customer with 2 awards totaling $949 thousand. Together, these two Forest Service regions cover 98% of combined potential value. The vendor also holds occasional work from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region, the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service, and GSA, but these represent minor volume. The awards per year have fluctuated — five in 2021, one in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024 — with only one award recorded in 2026 to date.

Chalmers Ford holds a multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (127EAV21A0010) with the USDA Forest Service Southwestern and Pacific Southwest Regions valued at $1.75 million with a ceiling completion date of July 29, 2026. Task orders under this BPA total over $3.5 million and have supported the upfitting of more than 125 vehicles across 14 national forests in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada under the CONT 0316 ENG FLEET FIRE COMMAND VEHICLE UPLIFT major program. Ten task orders under this single BPA carry $3.1 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds a position on Indefinite Delivery Contract FA872319D0001, with one task order recorded. Only one award (combined potential value $265 thousand) completes within the next twenty-four months, limiting immediate recompete exposure in that window.

Service Contract Inventory data shows Chalmers Ford reported $775 thousand in invoiced revenue on a single prime contract in fiscal 2024, delivered by roughly 1.3 FTEs, with government-paid rates at $296.51 per hour across the full rate spectrum. SCI coverage is minimal — only three records (two prime, one sub) in the FY2023–FY2024 window — and reflects only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold; the vendor's actual federal footprint is dominated by goods procurement (vehicle parts and equipment) and installation labor on purchase orders and BPA calls, which fall outside SCI's scope. The vendor operates as a prime on virtually all work; it appears once as a named subcontractor to CACI, Inc. Federal on a January 2024 hardware sub-award and does not maintain a characteristic subcontracting or teaming posture. Place of performance spans New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Idaho, with administrative oversight in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.