Frank S Zabel Trucking Company, Inc.

Frank S Zabel Trucking Company, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Eureka, California, provides specialized transportation and logistics services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, operating entirely under total small business set-asides on its indefinite delivery contracts and competing full-and-open on individual delivery orders. The company is DOT-certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and self-certified as a small disadvantaged business; it competes across NAICS 541614 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation codes.

Frank S Zabel Trucking's customer base is entirely concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top three customer entities account for 92 percent of awards by count: the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) with 49 awards totaling $2.2 million combined potential value, the National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) with 14 awards and $3.4 million combined potential value, and the Federal Fire and Aviation Management program with 11 awards and $1.2 million combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the largest dollar share despite placing fewer awards, reflecting the ceiling values on the company's indefinite delivery contracts.

The vendor holds seven active multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts, each ceiling-valued at $250,000 to $500,000, awarded through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and set aside for total small business. The top parent vehicles by task-order volume are IDC 12569R23T7608 (nine task orders, $673 thousand), IDC 1202SB22T7802 (eight task orders, $353 thousand), and IDC 129J6120T7026 (five task orders, $362 thousand). Recent IDVs awarded February 6, 2026, include a $500,000 water-handling contract running through June 4, 2030; a $500,000 potable and gray water truck contract through May 28, 2029; and a $500,000 heavy-equipment contract for West Zone regions 5 and 6 through June 9, 2028. An earlier contract from June 4, 2025, covers a $250,000 water-handling VIPR blanket purchase agreement running through June 4, 2030. Delivery orders executed against these vehicles range from $3,505 to $278,960 on firm fixed-price terms, with ultimate completion dates aligned to fire-suppression and emergency-response incident cycles.

The vendor's concrete capability portfolio centers on water handling equipment delivery, potable and gray water truck services, heavy equipment transportation, and emergency support logistics for wildfire suppression and land management across the western United States. Representative recent work includes a $107,580 delivery order awarded September 13, 2025, for transportation and logistics supporting Forest Service operations; a $27,695.83 order from August 30, 2025, for water handling equipment delivery in Redding, California; and a $111,600 order from August 4, 2025, for water-tender and potable-water truck services from the company's Eureka base. All three reflect firm fixed-price delivery order awards without socioeconomic set-aside designations at the task order level, issued against the company's pre-competed total small business IDVs.

Activity has moderated in the past two years—eight awards in 2022 and 2023 respectively, twelve in 2024, seven in 2025, and four year-to-date in 2026—with combined potential value of $7.1 million across all 83 awards and $2.8 million obligated to date. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no sub-award footprint. Place of performance is concentrated in Eureka, California, with secondary locations in Redding and across Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) in response to dispatch orders. The company's entire federal portfolio derives from pre-positioned contracts enabling rapid resource deployment to fire incidents and emergency management needs under the Forest Service's national coordination structure.