Ford Excavating & Trucking Inc.

Ford Excavating & Trucking Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Cle Elum, Washington, provides heavy equipment rentals, equipment operator services, and prescribed burn support to the federal government as a prime contractor on multiple-award IDCs and single-award BPAs with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) on full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders, though it holds positions on two Total Small Business set-aside IDCs and a small business BPA that enable rapid task-order issuance for wildfire suppression, prescribed burn operations, and land management across the Pacific Northwest and West Zone Regions 5 and 6.

Ford's customer footprint is deeply concentrated in a single agency. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 41 of 44 awards and $9.2 million of $10.7 million combined potential value — 93% by count and 95% by dollars — with the Pacific Northwest Regional office (R6) alone responsible for 30 awards worth $9.2 million. The National Interagency Fire Center represents nine awards totaling $959 thousand, while the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington and a separate Forest Service office account for the remaining 2% of activity.

Ford holds three parent vehicles anchoring its federal posture. A $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service Region 6, running through December 2025, covers prescribed burn planning, implementation, fire line construction, and vegetation modification across Oregon and Washington (completion cliff upcoming within six months). Two $250 thousand multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts — one awarded February 2026 with completion through June 2028, the other awarded June 2023 also extending to June 2028 — provide dozer and excavator rentals plus operator services for West Zone Regions 5 and 6. Recent delivery orders under these vehicles include a $221,984 dump truck services order (May 2026), a $138,088 prescribed burn support order (September 2025), a $124,200 prescribed burn delivery order (September 2025), and a $102,080 excavation and trucking order (August 2022). Five additional smaller BPAs appear in the parent vehicle list, carrying $447 thousand in combined potential value across ten task orders.

The company's capability portfolio centers on forest and wildfire operations. Primary NAICS concentration sits in Support Activities for Forestry (39 of 44 awards) and Lease or Rental of Construction, Mining, and Forestry Machinery (2 awards). PSC coding aligns: 38 awards fall under Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with 4 awards scattered across equipment rental and site preparation. Work is performed in Wenatchee and Everett, Washington, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, supporting seasonal and emergency mobilization across public lands. Ford has maintained continuous federal presence since 2004 SAM registration, with recent activity showing stable engagement at three to four awards annually. The $7.5 million BPA recompete cliff in December 2025 represents material renewal risk and opportunity for competitors; the two $250 thousand IDCs extending through mid-2028 provide longer runway.