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, and heavy equipment services to the U.S. Forest Service across the Pacific Northwest as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation self-certified as both a small disadvantaged business and veteran-owned business, with a federal contracting footprint anchored almost entirely to Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region).

Hanging Rock's customer concentration is extreme: 119 of 133 named awards (90% of the portfolio) and $52.8 million of $55.5 million combined potential value flow through the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region. The National Interagency Fire Center (5 awards, $788 thousand) and the Forest Service's research and administrative offices account for the remainder. The two customer rankings track identically — no tension between volume and dollars — because the regional Forest Service dominates both metrics.

The company holds a $25 million single-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with Forest Service Region 6 running through April 2028, covering road construction, bridge construction, maintenance, excavation, and equipment services across Oregon and Washington. Hanging Rock also maintains four smaller indefinite delivery vehicles: two $250 thousand Multiple Award IDCs with the National Interagency Fire Center for wildland fire suppression equipment (awarded February 2026 and May 2024), a $499,999 Blanket Purchase Agreement for road and bridge work, and one additional IDIQ. The top five parent vehicles collectively carry 44 task orders and $2.7 million in potential value. Recent representative work includes a $128,511 firm fixed-price purchase order (April 2026) for roadway surface maintenance across 435 miles of roads in the Umatilla National Forest's South and North zones through July 2027; a $48,360 BPA call (July 2025) for Road 55 emergency slide repair in Pendleton, Oregon; and a $310,697 delivery order (June 2024) for the GAOA Indian Creek Aquatic Organism Passage project involving excavation and stream habitat work.

Hanging Rock's work is bounded by geography and federal customer. The award portfolio spans 146 prime contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles with zero subcontract exposure. Activity has contracted sharply — four awards in 2022, seven in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and two in early 2026 — though the source does not indicate whether this decline reflects procurement patterns or vendor performance. The recompete cliff is minimal: only one award ($129 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The capability footprint, derived from NAICS and PSC concentration, centers on forestry support activities (72 awards), highway and bridge construction and maintenance (51 awards), and fire suppression equipment services. Concrete work includes road patching and repaving, trail bridge replacement, stream restoration and woody debris placement, snow removal on research forest roads, emergency slide stabilization, and wildland fire equipment rental and mobilization across the Pacific Northwest.