Rick D Elliott

Rick D Elliott, doing business as Mill Creek Enterprises, operates as a sole proprietor delivering heavy equipment and qualified personnel for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center across the Pacific Northwest, competing exclusively under total small business set-asides on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts.

Mill Creek Enterprises is based in Lakeview, Oregon, and classifies under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code for natural resources and conservation forest-range fire suppression. The vendor is a small business sole proprietorship with no subcontract activity; all 36 awards in the source reflect prime work. The firm specializes in deploying skidgines, dozers, excavators, pumper cats, and water-supply equipment with trained operators to support Forest Service emergency management operations in Regions 3, 5, and 6, encompassing Oregon and Washington. Representative recent work includes three delivery orders totaling $183,450 awarded by the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region in July and August 2026 for wildland fire suppression support — a $75,200 order on August 7, 2026, a $65,400 order on August 8, 2026, and a $42,300 order on July 23, 2026 — all under total small business set-asides. Earlier, Mill Creek Enterprises held two no-set-aside delivery orders from the same region in July 2024 ($78,750 and $31,500) against indefinite delivery IDIQs.

Customer concentration is narrow and stable. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 100% of recent awards across three distinct funding lines: the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region (28 awards, $1.7 million combined potential value), the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (7 awards, $2.1 million combined potential value), and the broader Forest Service organization (1 award, $54 thousand). The two dollars-based rankings align — the National Interagency Fire Center slightly edges Region 6 in potential value, but volume concentration skews toward Region 6.

Mill Creek Enterprises holds five multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, issued February 2026 and May 2025 with ceilings of $500,000 and $250,000 respectively, running through 2028 and 2030. The vendor also participates under five Blanket Purchase Agreement vehicles, with the primary BPA (AG04H1B147242) carrying eight task orders totaling $493 thousand. Task orders are firm fixed-price and place of performance spans Lakeview, Prineville, and other Pacific Northwest locations.

Activity has accelerated recently — one award in 2022, two in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and five in 2026 — with combined potential value of $3.8 million and obligated dollars of $1.1 million across the portfolio. The vendor's award footprint is operationally narrow but tactically deep within a single customer ecosystem: the Forest Service and Interagency Fire Center have established recurring blanket purchase agreements and IDIQs as standing procurement vehicles, and Mill Creek Enterprises appears to be one of multiple preseason contractors available for dispatch-based incident response.