Equipment Technologies, LLC

Equipment Technologies, LLC, a Lolo, Montana–based small business, supplies heavy equipment rentals and operational support for wildland fire suppression, forestry management, and land maintenance to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple regional and national vehicle relationships. All 74 recent awards are prime contracts — no subcontract work appears in the portfolio — and all awards fall under NAICS 333923 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code supporting forest-range fire suppression and presuppression operations.

Equipment Technologies operates predominantly under total small business set-aside IDIQs through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The vendor holds multiple $250,000 and $500,000 ceiling indefinite delivery contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center between May 2022 and February 2026, covering heavy equipment task force (HETF) services, miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, excavators, tractor plows, chippers, skidgines, and specialized machinery) and equipment-with-water services across USDA Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9. Each IDIQ operates on a firm fixed-price basis with performance periods extending through 2028 or 2030, enabling the Forest Service to issue delivery orders on an as-needed basis for incident response and land management operations.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 97% of recent awards by count and 99% by combined potential value, split between the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (14 awards, $4.2 million combined potential value) and regional offices: Region 1 Northern Region (44 awards, $3.8 million), Region 4 Intermountain Region (7 awards, $873 thousand), Region 2 Rocky Mountain Region (4 awards, $98 thousand), and the parent USDA Forest Service office (3 awards, $262 thousand). Recent task order work includes a $478,824 delivery order to Region 4 for heavy equipment rental supporting wildland fire suppression (August 2026), a $32,520 order to Region 1 for equipment rental and services (September 2026), and a $26,685 order under the Region 1 IDIQ for equipment rentals in Dalton Gardens, Idaho (September 2025).

The top five parent vehicles by task-order volume are Indefinite Delivery Contracts 1202SB21T7055 (9 task orders, $1.1 million), 1202SB22T7122 (8 task orders, $228 thousand), 1202SB23T7376 (5 task orders, $77 thousand), 12034320T7092 (4 task orders, $236 thousand), and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG0343B137212 (4 task orders, $108 thousand). These vehicles are all VIPR Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements for heavy equipment and HETF services operated by the National Interagency Fire Center under total small business set-asides.

Activity has remained steady at 8–11 awards per year across the past five years (2022–2026), with combined potential value of $9.4 million and $3.3 million obligated to date (36% execution). Equipment Technologies demonstrates strong recurring demand from the Forest Service's incident procurement system; work is performed across multiple western regions including Dalton Gardens, Idaho; Price, Utah; Pueblo, Colorado; Durango, Colorado; and Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The vendor competes full-and-open under total small business set-aside vehicles and holds no work outside the USDA Forest Service ecosystem, representing significant customer-concentration and recompete risk if any VIPR IDIQ falls to competitive challenge.

Heavy equipment specialist performing all types of forestry and wildland fire support. Logging, site preparation, water handling, and construction services. Heavy equipment repair and transportation. Thirty plus years experience in heavy equipment solutions.