Eagle Cap Contracting LLC

Eagle Cap Contracting LLC, a small business based in Baker City and La Grande, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing wildland fire management, forestry support, and prescribed burn services to the USDA Forest Service and related federal fire agencies across western national forests, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on regional delivery orders and blanket purchase agreement call orders.

Eagle Cap's capability portfolio centers on wildland firefighting crew deployment, specialized firefighting equipment (Type 2, Type 4, and Type 6 engines; water tenders), prescribed burn support, mechanical thinning, vegetation management, and equipment rental for fire suppression and forest health operations. Representative work includes a $240,000 FY26 wildland fire and forestry support services purchase order with USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) through December 2027; a $287,126 Baker City watershed thinning and grapple pile BPA call order (also Region 6, October 2025 award, completion November 2026); and a $7.5 million prescribed burn support blanket purchase agreement with Region 6 effective May 2022 through January 2030, which anchors Eagle Cap's largest IDV ceiling and reflects the agency's reliance on the contractor's specialized prescribed-fire capabilities.

Customer concentration is extreme and regionally locked. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 53% of recent awards (90 awards, $25.6 million combined potential value) and dominates both award count and dollar rankings. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC, part of Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) places 28 awards worth $3.8 million, primarily for water handling, chipper services, and Type 2 firefighter crews across multiple regions. Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions holds two awards with $50.2 million combined potential value—the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA awarded June 3, 2026, which carries nationwide scope for environmental consulting, restoration, and natural resources work under NAICS 541620 and PSC R408. The Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington and Forest Service regional offices (R2 Rocky Mountain, R3 Southwestern, R4 Intermountain, R5 Pacific Southwest) round out the customer base at smaller scale.

Eagle Cap holds a deep portfolio of parent vehicles anchored to Forest Service and NIFC fire-operations procurement. The National Type 2 Firefighter Crews IDC (1202SB22T7763, $500,000 ceiling, extended through July 1, 2027) has generated 35 task orders worth $2 million; the R6 Prescribed Burn Support BPA ($7.5 million ceiling, January 1, 2030 completion) represents single-award status and is the largest value vehicle. Multiple VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements—for water handling, chipper services, and equipment across East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, 9) and West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, 10) at $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings each—enable rapid task-order issuance for fire-season mobilization. The R6 Mechanical and Hand Thinning BPA ($5 million potential value through May 30, 2027) supports prescribed fuel-reduction work. These vehicles are characteristic of Eagle Cap's model: long-duration, task-order-based procurement under total small business set-asides, with high award velocity (88 task orders issued in 2022 alone) and low dollars obligated relative to potential value (11% utilization across the portfolio), indicating available contract capacity.

Recent activity shows volatility. Awards per year peaked at 28 in 2022, dropped to 13 in 2023, rose to 20 in 2024, held at 19 in 2025, and declined to 15 through October 2026, suggesting seasonal and budget-driven fluctuation rather than sustained growth or decline. The recompete cliff is light: only three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $757,000, indicating most IDVs and BPAs extend beyond 2028 and face recompete risk in a longer window.

NAICS concentration is tight: 163 of 170 awards (96%) fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 115310). The June 2026 $50 million LMIR BPA represents a strategic expansion into environmental consulting (NAICS 541620) and marks a rare diversification beyond fire suppression. PSC coding reinforces the fire-focused portfolio: 146 of 170 awards (86%) carry PSC H211 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). Eagle Cap is a specialist vendor, not a generalist contractor, with federal footprint almost entirely within USDA Forest Service fire and hazard-fuel-reduction programs across the western United States.