Dukes Equipment & Parts LLC

Dukes Equipment & Parts LLC, doing business as Dukes Equipment, provides heavy equipment rentals and operator services for wildland firefighting, forestry operations, land management, and emergency response across the western United States, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on Forest Service and Interagency Fire Center delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Union Gap, Washington, structured as a limited liability company, and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Dukes Equipment's customer base is heavily concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The top five customers account for 99% of recent awards, with the Forest Service Regional 6-Pacific Northwest Region dominating activity at 108 awards and $7.6 million in combined potential value, followed by the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center at 16 awards and $3.7 million. The Forest Service general line carries 11 awards for $1.2 million, the Regional 5-Pacific Southwest Region generated one $180 thousand award, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington accounts for 6 awards valued at $53 thousand. The vendor's award history spans 146 total prime contracts issued between May 2014 and September 2026, with combined potential value of $12.8 million and $8.7 million in obligated dollars.

Dukes Equipment's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on heavy equipment provision. The vendor supplies dozers, excavators, skidgines, log loaders, feller bunchers, and related machinery for fire suppression, incident response, and terrain modification. Recent representative awards include a $332,950 definitive contract from Forest Service Region 6 in September 2023 for mechanical piling and mastication services on the Naches Ranger District through July 2026, multiple delivery orders valued between $19,000 and $311,781 under the company's Indefinite Delivery Contracts, and a $266,280 purchase order for a feller buncher in September 2022. The vendor's work is categorized under NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry) across 135 awards and PSC code related to natural resources and forest-range fire suppression across 131 awards.

Activity shows modest volatility over the past five years, with 23 awards in 2022, declining to 12 in 2023, recovering to 17 in 2024, declining again to 11 in 2025, and 12 in 2026. The vendor holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, each valued at $250,000 to $500,000 and set aside for small businesses, covering heavy equipment support across Regions 3, 5, and 6. The top parent vehicle, IDC 1202SB21T7742, has generated 23 task orders worth $1.4 million, while IDC 1204H124T7063 carries 23 task orders valued at $2 million. Dukes Equipment operates through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, which enables rapid deployment of equipment to support wildland fire suppression and prescribed project work. Place of performance spans Wenatchee, Pendleton, Springfield, Roseburg, Baker City, Vancouver, Sandy, and Everett across Washington and Oregon, with work typically completing within one to six weeks of issuance.