Tunk Creek LLC

Tunk Creek LLC, doing business as Tunk Creek, a small business limited liability company based in Riverside, Washington, provides heavy equipment rental and operator services for wildland fire suppression, forest management, and emergency response operations to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor across 58 federal awards with no subcontract footprint, competing entirely within small business reserve channels rather than full-and-open competition.

Tunk Creek's capability portfolio centers on equipment mobilization and crew deployment for federal land management emergencies. The vendor supplies dozers, excavators, Type 2 chippers, water tenders, masticators, and skidgens with qualified operators, structured on firm fixed-price, 16-hour daily shift rate cards. Representative work includes a $134,160 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 6 issued July 24, 2026, for equipment and operators supporting fire suppression and forest management across the western United States; a $92,000 Region 6 delivery order from July 28, 2026, under total small business set-aside; and a $87,400 June 2025 delivery order for heavy equipment and operator services. The vendor maintains a presence across Wenatchee, Colville, and Riverside, Washington, with work deployable throughout Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 and subordinate operations spanning California, Oregon, and Washington.

Customer concentration is extreme and aligned: 100% of awards (41 by count, $2.2 million potential value) flow to USDA Forest Service Region 6–Pacific Northwest Region, and 16 awards worth $4.8 million potential value go to the National Interagency Fire Center (part of USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management). The National Interagency Fire Center ranks first by potential dollars ($4.8 million across 16 awards); Region 6 ranks first by order count (41 awards) but carries lower per-award magnitude ($2.2 million total). This concentration reflects Tunk Creek's positioning as a regional incident-response vendor locked into the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) framework administered by the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the Forest Service.

Tunk Creek holds a portfolio of multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs) under VIPR, the mechanism that enables preseason rate establishment and rapid equipment dispatch during fire season and emergencies without repetitive competition. Active vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H124T7053 (5 task orders, $426 thousand combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7564 (5 task orders, $93 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H120T7303 (4 task orders, $27 thousand), and Blanket Purchase Agreement 1204H118T7070 (5 task orders, $186 thousand). Named IDCs in the source carry $500,000 and $250,000 ceilings each across equipment categories (Heavy Equipment Task Force, West Zone Heavy Equipment with Water, Chippers for Regions 5 and 6, Miscellaneous Heavy Equipment for Region 6) with performance periods extending through 2028–2030. These vehicles represent preseason-rate agreements rather than traditional full-and-open GWACs and are accessible only to small businesses qualifying under total small business set-asides.

Activity has remained episodic but consistent: seven awards in 2022, four in 2023, five in 2024, five in 2025, and eight year-to-date in 2026 (as of July 28, 2026). Combined potential value across all 58 awards stands at $7 million, with $1.3 million obligated (18% drawdown), typical for IDC vehicles where task orders consume ceiling incrementally across multi-year periods. No recompete cliff is present in the source data; VIPR contracts are annually reviewable for vendor additions and operate on rolling fire-season demand rather than fixed obligation schedules. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides and does not pursue unrestricted federal work or teaming arrangements with large primes. Tunk Creek's federal footprint is geographically and programmatically narrow — wildfire and forest management incident response in the western U.S. — with all customer relationships originating from a single agency (USDA Forest Service) across two administrative channels (Region 6 and the National Interagency Fire Center).