Gibson & Son Road Building, Inc.

Gibson & Son Road Building, Inc., doing business as Gibson & Son Excavation, supplies heavy equipment—primarily dump trucks, log loaders, excavators, vibratory rollers, and skid-steer loaders—to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor operating entirely on full-and-open, firm fixed-price purchase orders with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit corporate entity based in Ellensburg, Washington, that operates without subcontractors and holds Total Small Business status on four recent IDIQ vehicles awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center.

Gibson & Son's customer base is heavily concentrated within the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 92% of recent awards by both count and potential value: Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) dominates the portfolio with 17 awards worth $3.9 million in combined potential value, while the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds four IDIQ awards valued at $1 million. A single award to Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) rounds out the active customer set. The vendor has served only three distinct federal agencies in its recent award history.

Gibson & Son's core work consists of supplying specialized heavy equipment to support forest service operations and emergency incident response across the Pacific Northwest. Representative orders include a $944.86 thousand dump truck purchase order (August 2025), a $303.33 thousand vibratory roller procurement (September 2025), a $344 thousand order for log loaders and a Type 1 chipper (August 2025), a $228.75 thousand order for log loaders and logging trucks (September 2026), and a $1.04 million dump truck and logging truck purchase order (July 2026). All work is performed in Wenatchee, Washington, with typical performance periods compressed to weeks or months to meet operational and emergency response timelines.

The four IDIQ vehicles awarded in August 2026 each carry a $250 thousand ceiling and run through 2028 to 2030: the West Zone Heavy Equipment with Water for Regions 3, 5, and 6 contract; the Heavy Equipment Task Force (HETF) for Region 6 contract; the Miscellaneous Heavy Equipment for Region 6 contract; and the Heavy Equipment for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 contract. All are Total Small Business set-asides structured on a firm fixed-price basis for dump trucks, excavators, log loaders, skidders, vibratory rollers, skid-steer loaders, and chippers.

Activity has grown substantially in recent years—two awards in 2021 to nine in 2025 and eight in 2026—reflecting expanded reliance on Gibson & Son for equipment supply across Forest Service operations. The vendor's combined potential value across all 24 awards stands at $5.3 million, with $3.9 million obligated to date. Gibson & Son competes exclusively as a prime contractor with no documented sub-award activity and operates with established relationships in the Pacific Northwest that emphasize rapid-fulfillment equipment supply for high-tempo forest management and incident response programs.