Ford Excavating & Trucking Inc.

Ford Excavating & Trucking Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Cle Elum, Washington, delivers heavy equipment rentals, equipment operator services, and prescribed burn support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively, operating under a small business set-aside posture across multiple indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements in the Pacific Northwest and West Zone regions.

Ford operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's customer concentration is severe: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 94% of all awards (34 prime awards from Region 6—Pacific Northwest Region alone, plus 9 from the National Interagency Fire Center), generating $9.6 million and $1.2 million in combined potential value respectively. The vendor maintains minimal federal exposure outside USDA—one award each from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (Idaho Region and Oregon-Washington) totaling $18 thousand. This concentration reflects Ford's geographic and operational focus on wildfire suppression, prescribed burn operations, and land management in the Pacific Northwest and West Zone Regions 5 and 6, with place of performance principally Wenatchee, Washington and subordinate locations in Everett, Washington and Boise, Idaho.

Ford holds three primary parent vehicles: a $500 thousand multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in February 2026 for heavy equipment in West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (11 task orders, $740 thousand combined potential value); a $250 thousand multiple-award IDC from the National Interagency Fire Center issued June 2023 for heavy equipment rentals in Regions 5 and 6 (10 task orders, $396 thousand combined potential value); and a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement from Forest Service Region 6 awarded May 2022 for prescribed burn support services in Oregon and Washington through December 2025 (7 task orders, $263 thousand combined potential value). Recent representative orders include a $210.5 thousand Total Small Business delivery order for heavy equipment rentals (July 2026), a $144.7 thousand delivery order for heavy equipment rentals and operator services (August 2026), and a $138.1 thousand prescribed burn support delivery order (September 2025). The vendor's award footprint clusters under NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry, 43 awards) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (41 awards). Activity has trended upward in 2026 (8 awards year to date) after relatively flat volume in 2022–2025 (3–4 awards annually). Ford has maintained federal contracting engagement since registering in SAM.gov in 2004, with combined potential value across 49 prime awards totaling $11.4 million and obligated dollars of $2.1 million.