Frost Brothers, Incorporated

Frost Brothers, Incorporated, a small business based in Silver City, New Mexico, provides heavy equipment rental and operator services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's regional operations.

Frost Brothers operates exclusively in the forestry equipment and support services market, delivering dozers, excavators, tractor plows, transport vehicles, and skilled operators to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and general forest operations. The vendor's concrete capability is portable within two primary NAICS categories: Support Activities for Forestry (38 of 39 awards) and Site Preparation Contractors (1 award), with corresponding PSC coding in Natural Resources/Conservation and Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Representative work includes a $102,500 delivery order under a Regional IDIQ for heavy equipment and operator services in Silver City, New Mexico (July–August 2023); an $88,150 delivery order under the same IDIQ for operations support in the Southwestern Region (June 2025); and a $83,160.50 Total Small Business delivery order for wildland fire suppression in Alamogordo, New Mexico (May–June 2026).

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency-dominant. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 100% of recent awards across four organizational tiers: the Southwestern Region (Region 3) alone holds 34 awards worth $1.8 million combined potential value (87% of portfolio dollars), the National Interagency Fire Center holds 2 awards worth $750 thousand, the Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) holds 1 award worth $38 thousand, and the broad Forest Service entity holds 2 awards worth $30 thousand. The vendor sits on two primary IDIQ vehicles issued by the National Interagency Fire Center: a $250,000 Total Small Business IDIQ awarded May 1, 2023 with completion date May 1, 2028 (10 task orders, $553 thousand combined potential value), and a $500,000 Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026 with completion date May 1, 2028 (10 task orders, $282 thousand combined potential value). The vendor also places work under two regional BPAs: AG8371B117060 (3 task orders, $157 thousand) and AG8371B147057 (3 task orders, $73 thousand).

Recent activity is volatile but trending upward year-to-date. The vendor received two awards in 2021, four in 2022, two in 2023, a gap in 2024, five in 2025, and five in 2026 as of the source date (July 2026). Combined potential value across all thirty-nine awards stands at $2.6 million, with $1.6 million obligated (60% realization rate). The vendor holds no subcontractor relationships reflected in the source and operates as a 100% prime footprint. All recent awards carry firm fixed-price structures under Total Small Business set-asides or full-and-open competition within Forest Service regional procurement workflows, with place of performance concentrated in New Mexico (Silver City, Alamogordo, Socorro, Black) and Colorado (Delta).