Hacker Machines LLC

Hacker Machines LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Grants Pass, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing heavy equipment rentals and certified operator services for wildland fire suppression, emergency response, and land management to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and interagency wildfire response networks. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with all 43 recent awards (100% of prime work) designated as set-aside or targeting women-owned small business eligibility; across delivery orders under IDIQs and incident-based blanket purchase agreements, Hacker Machines maintains its woman-owned small business posture as a competitive advantage in federal wildfire procurement.

Hacker Machines' capability footprint is narrowly specialized: heavy construction equipment rental and operator services (NAICS 532412) focused on dozers, excavators, water trucks, and water handling vehicles, plus certified personnel for 16-hour shift operations supporting Forest Service Regions 2, 3, 5, and 6 across the western United States. Recent representative work includes a $467,543.60 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) on June 25, 2025, for heavy equipment and operator services under IDIQ contract CASRF000004; a $204,684.00 delivery order from Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) on July 6, 2026, for fire suppression and emergency response equipment support; and a $165,780.65 delivery order from Region 5 on August 8, 2026, for heavy equipment rental and operator services under total small business set-aside. Place of performance spans California, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington, with work coordinated through the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and the National Interagency Fire Center's incident management protocols.

Customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its regional fire-suppression operations. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 12 awards ($3.9 million combined potential value) under the VIPR I-BPA multiple-award incident blanket purchase agreements; Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) holds 14 awards ($1.6 million); Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) holds 16 awards ($1.3 million); and Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) holds 1 award ($205 thousand). All four customers fall within the same agency structure and the same fire-suppression mission domain, creating high customer concentration against a single buyer ecosystem.

Hacker Machines holds seven active Federal Contract IDVs, all multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings awarded through the National Interagency Fire Center and USDA Forest Service from February 2022 through February 2026. These IDVs cover West Zone heavy equipment with water for Regions 3, 5, and 6 (two vehicles, $500,000 ceilings each, awarded February 6, 2026); water handling for Region 5 ($500,000 ceiling, awarded February 6, 2026); miscellaneous heavy equipment for Region 6 ($500,000 ceiling, awarded February 6, 2026); and a series of legacy VIPR I-BPA vehicles for Regions 5 and 6 ($250,000 ceilings, awarded June 2022 through May 2025). Delivery orders under these vehicles range from $11,390 to $467,543, with a firm fixed-price structure and performance periods extending through June 2030. The five highest-volume parent vehicles (by task order count) generated $2.27 million combined potential value across 25 delivery orders.

Award activity has remained steady year over year, averaging 8 awards per year across 2022–2026, with 43 total awards and $7 million combined potential value across four distinct Forest Service regional and national buyer components. Obligated dollars total $3.2 million (46% of combined potential value), reflecting the delivery-order-driven, incident-response nature of the work: awards are issued as needed and many have completion dates within weeks to a few months of issuance. All recent awards are firm fixed-price delivery orders or IDIQs with firm fixed-price terms, and all work is performed directly by Hacker Machines with no subcontractor footprint reported. The vendor operates in a narrow market segment (wildland fire suppression equipment and operators under VIPR) with sole-source or limited-competition positioning within the National Interagency Fire Center's incident resource pools, and no recompete cliff data is apparent given the rolling incident-driven award calendar and the maturity of underlying IDIQs extending through 2028–2030.

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