Evan Chapman

Evan Chapman, doing business as E R Chapman Construction, a sole proprietorship based in Mt Baldy, California, provides wildland fire suppression, emergency response, and hazard tree removal services to the USDA Forest Service exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates 100% on government contract awards with no subcontract relationships, competing predominantly under small business set-asides across forest-management and fire-suppression work.

E R Chapman Construction's capability portfolio centers on wildland fire suppression, water handling, heavy equipment operations, emergency incident response, and hazard tree removal on federal lands in western forest regions. Representative delivery-order work includes a $124,700 firm fixed-price order from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region in August 2025 for fire suppression and emergency response at Clovis, California; a $105,750 order from the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region in July 2026 for wildland fire suppression in Pueblo, Colorado; and a $94,600 order from the Forest Service Southwestern Region in June 2026 for fire suppression work in Flagstaff, Arizona. The company also holds multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center valued at $250,000 to $500,000 each, designated as total small business set-asides, for water handling and heavy equipment services across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, 6, 8, and 10.

Customer concentration is nearly total within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service ecosystem. The top-five forest-management customer organizations account for 94% of recent awards: the Pacific Southwest Region places 18 awards valued at $921 thousand; the National Interagency Fire Center anchors 7 awards at $2.5 million combined potential value; the Pacific Southwest Research Station places 5 awards at $49 thousand; and three additional regional offices account for $250 thousand. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center dominates by potential value despite a lower award count, reflecting the larger ceiling values of the standing IDIQs the vendor holds with that office.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to nine in 2026. The vendor places task orders against five named parent vehicles, all Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) structure: IDC 12569R23T8014 has generated eight task orders at $368 thousand combined value; IDC 1202SB22T7774 carries seven task orders at $356 thousand; and three additional IDCs support $521 thousand in remaining combined task-order value. Combined potential value across all 36 prime awards reaches $3.8 million, with $1.3 million obligated (35% rate), and the most recent award dated August 26, 2026. No recompete timeline is specified in the source data.

The vendor's work-category concentration aligns entirely with its forest-fire mission: 29 awards fall under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code Y084 (Natural Resources and Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), with three construction-related awards and two landscaping awards representing ancillary work. All delivery orders are firm fixed-price, and task-order magnitudes range from $2,683 to $124,700, clustering around $40,000 to $95,000 per order. The company operates with no foreign ownership, no teaming or subcontracting, and no multi-agency portfolio — it is a single-mission vendor focused entirely on wildland fire and emergency response for the western USDA Forest Service.