Fillmore & Western Railway Inc.

Fillmore & Western Railway Inc. is a small business prime contractor providing heavy equipment and operator support for wildland fire suppression and incident response to the National Interagency Fire Center (USDA Forest Service) under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime under firm fixed price indefinite delivery contracts with a $1 million combined ceiling across all recent federal awards.

All four awards in the source data derive from the National Interagency Fire Center, which accounts for 100% of both award count and potential value. The vendor holds four separate indefinite delivery vehicles, each valued at a $250,000 ceiling: two contracts for heavy equipment serving USDA Forest Service West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (awarded June 2023 and February 2026, completing June 2028 and June 2029 respectively); one contract for miscellaneous heavy equipment supporting USFS Region 5 Pacific Southwest operations (awarded June 2024, completing June 2029); and one contract for the same Pacific Southwest region awarded February 2026 with a June 2029 completion date. The source material describes the equipment scope as including feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and heavy dozers and excavators (Type 1 through Type 4 variants). Performance requires equipment and trained, certified personnel capable of supporting daily shift operations up to 16 hours as needed for fire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed burn projects. Contracts are structured as multiple-award vehicles, meaning other vendors hold parallel agreements for the same requirements. The vendor's category concentration is entirely within Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC). Activity across the three-year window shows one award in 2023, one in 2024, and two in early 2026. Three of the four awards face ultimate completion between June 2028 and June 2029, establishing a recompete exposure window in that timeframe.