Hanging Rock Excavation & Construction, Inc.

Hanging Rock Excavation & Construction, Inc., a veteran-owned small disadvantaged business based in La Grande, Oregon, delivers roadway maintenance, emergency infrastructure repair, heavy equipment services, and forest restoration work to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor, competing exclusively under total small business set-asides on a regional federal footprint concentrated in the Pacific Northwest.

Hanging Rock operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with a federal contracting footprint anchored almost entirely to USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region), where it holds a portfolio of indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements spanning road construction, bridge work, heavy equipment rental for wildland fire suppression, and facility maintenance. The company has executed 151 prime awards over the past twenty years, with combined potential value of $56.6 million and combined dollars obligated to date of $7.3 million. Activity accelerated in 2023 (seven awards) and returned to elevated levels in 2026 (seven awards), after a slowdown in 2024 and 2025. Primary NAICS categories cluster around Support Activities for Forestry (77 awards) and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (43 awards), with secondary emphasis on building construction and landscaping services.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 122 awards (81% of the portfolio) and $53.1 million (94% of combined potential value), covering the vast majority of Hanging Rock's federal revenue. The National Interagency Fire Center, also under the Department of Agriculture, represents a secondary customer with seven awards ($1.5 million combined potential value) for wildland fire suppression equipment. Remaining Forest Service entities (Research Service, Washington Office, Economic Recovery Operations) and unspecified Forest Service accounts contribute 2–3 awards each with negligible dollar values. No other federal agencies appear in the award history.

Hanging Rock's primary vehicle footprint centers on a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract (AG04M3C140017) awarded May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028, for road construction, bridge construction, maintenance, excavation, and equipment services across Oregon and Washington under total small business set-aside. This IDIQ has generated 17 task orders (combined potential value $694 thousand) and serves as the foundational delivery mechanism for Forest Service Region 6 work. Three blanket purchase agreements (AG04M3B160004, AG04H1B157295, 1204M318A0005) contribute another 21 combined task orders with nearly $2.1 million potential value. Recent representative awards include a $353.7 million delivery order (June 2023) for repair and patching of 51 roads and 73 pavement sections in the La Grande area under the primary IDIQ; a $310.7 thousand delivery order (June 2024) for the GAOA Indian Creek Aquatic Organism Passage project, funded under the Great American Outdoors Act; a $177.2 thousand BPA call (June 2023) for the Bird Track Springs Trail project involving bridge replacement and trail rehabilitation; a $299.4 thousand definitive contract (April 2023) for stream restoration on the LaGrande Ranger District placing large woody debris in ten miles of streams; a $133.7 thousand purchase order (April 2026) for roadway surface maintenance on the Umatilla National Forest across 435 miles in Oregon and Washington under a 90 percent quality standard through July 2027; and recent 2026 delivery orders from Forest Service Region 6 ranging from $8.6 thousand to $218.3 thousand for emergency slide repair, road maintenance, and facility work. Hanging Rock also holds two wildland fire equipment multiple-award IDCs from the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500 thousand vehicle (February 2026) for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 6 through May 2029, and two additional $250 thousand vehicles (May 2024 and July 2026–August 2026) for heavy equipment with water for Regions 3, 5, and 6 through 2030.

The company competes exclusively under total small business set-asides across its prime footprint and maintains no subcontracting relationships in the source data. Recompete exposure is minimal: only one award ($134 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating the majority of current vehicle agreements extend through 2028–2030. Hanging Rock's competitive posture is regional and specialized — the company does not pursue federal work outside Forest Service Region 6 or compete on full-and-open federal contracts, instead relying on its established presence and equipment base in Oregon and Washington to dominate the small-business set-aside road maintenance, bridge construction, and fire suppression equipment markets within that geography.