Geisler Skidding Contractors

Geisler Skidding Contractors, a for-profit partnership headquartered in Springerville, Arizona, provides forest road maintenance, heavy equipment rental, road surfacing and stabilization, and skidding services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates 100% as a prime (144 awards to date with zero sub-awards), competes entirely under federal contracts rather than grants, and demonstrates deep specialization in wildfire preparedness, forest management infrastructure, and incident response across the southwestern United States.

The customer concentration is stark and decision-defining: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) accounts for 97 of 144 awards (67% of the footprint) and $61.4 million of the $64 million combined potential value, with the National Interagency Fire Center adding 8 awards ($1.8 million) and the Forest Service Washington Office adding 3 awards ($185 thousand). The remaining two awards are to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. This 76% coverage of awards translates to 99% of combined potential value, indicating minimal diversification outside the Forest Service ecosystem.

Geisler's vehicle position centers on seven active indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements anchored by a $50 million single-award FERM (Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance) BPA with the Forest Service Region 3 running through February 2033. Representative work includes a $925 thousand purchase order awarded October 1, 2026, for road surfacing and stabilization on National Forest System Road 249E in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (total small business set-aside, completion May 3, 2027); a $1.586 million definitive contract for surface stabilization on NFSR 24 in Springerville (total small business, awarded July 2022, completed September 2024); and multiple delivery orders for skidding and equipment rental under VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) indefinite delivery contracts managed by the National Interagency Fire Center with $250 thousand to $500 thousand ceilings through 2028–2029. Task orders under these vehicles cluster around miscellaneous heavy equipment rental ($80 thousand to $99 thousand range per call), road maintenance operations ($30 thousand to $64 thousand), and emergency services ($3 thousand to $50 thousand). The top five parent vehicles collectively carry 55 task orders and $2.6 million in combined potential value.

Activity has been volatile: three awards in 2022, seven in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and three in 2026 (including the October 2026 award). One award ($925 thousand) reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and represents the recompete exposure window. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $2.1 million in FY2023 (the sole reporting year in the dataset), with 2.4 FTEs on prime service contracts; SCI data carries no FY2022 invoicing and no sub-engagement across the four records captured. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ranged from a 10th percentile of $334.20/hr to a median of $397.90/hr to a 90th percentile of $461.60/hr, reflecting labor-intensive field operations (equipment operators, road crew supervisors) rather than professional services or engineering labor. The SCI dataset represents a narrow slice of the vendor's total federal revenue given the commodity and equipment-rental nature of most Geisler work, which falls outside SCI reporting thresholds.

The vendor's capability footprint clusters under NAICS 237310 (Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction) with 102 awards, 237213 (Support Activities for Forestry) with 29 awards, and specialty trade construction for water/sewer and fire protection (4 awards combined). PSC codes reinforce this: 49 awards under "Repair Or Alteration Of Highways/Roads/Streets/Bridges/Railways," 28 under "Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression," and 6 under highway construction. Work is performed in Springerville and across Regions 3 and 8 of the Forest Service, with occasional multi-district operations. The company has maintained federal contractor status since at least 2000 and holds a consistent presence with the Forest Service. Geisler competes entirely under total small business set-asides on the BPA and single-award IDV vehicles and full-and-open on individual delivery orders and purchase orders, reflecting the Forest Service's vehicle-level set-aside strategy. No subcontracting occurs across the award footprint, and no named subs appear in any source material.