Franke Mulching & Excavation, LLC

Franke Mulching & Excavation, LLC, a small-business partnership based in Troy, Montana, provides heavy equipment and certified personnel for fire suppression and prescribed burn operations to the National Interagency Fire Center under four total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contracts awarded since April 2025. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor on federal fire-management work and competes entirely under total small business set-asides.

Franke Mulching & Excavation holds four firm fixed price indefinite delivery contracts, all held with the National Interagency Fire Center under the U.S. Forest Service (USDA), spanning the East Zone regions (1, 2, 4, and 9). Each contract carries a $250,000 ceiling and runs through April 2030, for a combined potential value of $1 million across the portfolio. The contracts procure heavy equipment — including dozers, excavators, tractor plows, feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, and skidders — along with managed, supervised, trained, and certified personnel to operate the equipment in support of fire suppression, prescribed burn, and all-hazard incident response. Equipment and personnel are available up to 16 hours per day. The contracts are issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system as incident blanket purchase agreements, with firm fixed pricing that encompasses all equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, lodging, and personnel management costs. The underlying solicitations were posted between January and February 2023, with awards issued in April and February 2026.

Customer concentration is absolute: the National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 100% of the vendor's recent award portfolio, both by count (four awards) and by combined potential value ($1 million). The vendor's NAICS footprint is entirely Support Activities for Forestry (PSC Natural Resources/Conservation – Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). With only four awards recorded in the source data spanning 2025 and 2026, Franke Mulching & Excavation represents an emerging small-business supplier in the federal fire-management equipment and personnel market with no recorded subcontract work or activity outside USDA Forest Service fire operations.