Gerou Excavating Inc.

Gerou Excavating Inc., a small-business Subchapter S corporation based in Wetmore, Michigan, supplies gravel purchase, hauling, placement, and overlay services to federal land-management agencies as a 100% prime contractor operating exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor's work is concentrated in forest road maintenance, campground and parking-area gravel overlay, and snow removal across Midwest national forests, national parks, and wildlife refuges, with no subcontract footprint and no position on standing IDIQs or GWACs.

Customer concentration is acute. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) anchors the portfolio with 19 awards totaling $714 thousand in combined potential value, followed at material distance by the Department of the Interior National Park Service Midwest Region (3 awards, $592 thousand) and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (2 awards, $25 thousand). These three customer branches account for 86% of the award count and 90% of combined potential value. The portfolio shows no presence with DoD, civilian IT agencies, or federal offices outside the Midwest.

Recent and representative work includes a $233.48 thousand purchase order from the Forest Service (May 2026, performance through August 2026) for delivery and placement of 8,640 tons of MDOT gravel and pit-run aggregate at Forest Road 2109 and Corner Lake Pit on the Hiawatha National Forest; a $403.15 thousand purchase order from the National Park Service (May 2024) for gravel overlay on roads, parking areas, and campground driveways at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore; and a $184.29 thousand purchase order from the National Park Service Midwest Region (June 2023) for gravel overlay at Pictured Rocks. All awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders or definitive contracts under FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures, with ceiling values ranging from $11.7 thousand to $403.1 thousand.

Activity has been episodic rather than steady. The vendor holds 35 lifetime awards spanning 1992 to 2026, but recent years show sparse volume: one award in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, and one in 2026. Two awards carrying combined potential value of $275 thousand are set for completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure. Category concentration across the portfolio points toward construction sand and gravel mining (3 awards), support activities for forestry (4 awards), and housekeeping snow removal (6 awards) under PSC codes aligned with material supply and equipment rental.