Warden Hawkins

Warden Hawkins Western Rangeland Services LLC, a small agricultural cooperative based in Buhl, Idaho, provides mechanical vegetation management, fuel break maintenance, and rangeland restoration services to the federal government as a prime contractor exclusively, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on purchase orders issued by Interior and Air Force installations across the Western United States.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Of 58 total prime awards, 52 awards (91% of the portfolio by count, 96% by combined potential value) flow through three BLM regions: the Idaho Region leads with 30 awards worth $1.8 million combined potential value, followed by the Nevada Region with 13 awards worth $857 thousand, and the Oregon-Washington Region with 4 awards worth $18 thousand. The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command represents a secondary customer stream with 5 awards totaling $567 thousand, anchored by a $141,870 small-business-set-aside Blanket Purchase Agreement for potable water delivery to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho (September 2024–September 2029, with four optional one-year renewals). The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R4-Intermountain Region holds one contract, a $61,931 purchase order for winter pasture and stock care at Sawtooth National Forest (awarded February 2023, completion November 2027, unrestricted competition).

Warden Hawkins' capability portfolio centers on mechanical mowing, disking, seeding, and vegetation control across thousands of acres of federal rangeland. Representative work includes a $153,244 total small-business-set-aside purchase order for FY23 Tri-State Fuel Break Mowing in the Bruneau, Idaho area (BLM Idaho Region, September 2023); a $141,686 small-business-set-aside for mechanical mowing along 66 miles of fuel breaks in the Big Desert area covering 2,266 acres (BLM Idaho Region, April 2024); a $80,846 tri-state fuel break mowing contract (BLM Idaho Region, September 2025); and a $16,422 total small-business-set-aside purchase order for disking 188 acres near Mountain Home, Idaho, with Service Contract Act wage rates for General Forestry Labor (BLM Idaho Region, June 2026). Work is characteristically performed under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC F006 (Natural Resources/Conservation Land Treatment Practices); 26 awards fall under forestry support and 20 under range seeding, with smaller volumes in soil preparation and local trucking. All work is performed at or near customer sites in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming; five awards specify transportation of bulk water and other supplies using four-wheel-drive equipment.

Activity has declined over the past three years — from three awards in 2022 to six in 2024 to two in 2025 to one in 2026. Combined potential value across all 58 awards is $3.4 million, with $2.9 million obligated (85% of ceiling). Only two awards (combined potential value $78 thousand) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The vendor has no subcontract footprint and does not hold seats on government-wide vehicles; the single parent vehicle in the portfolio is the Air Force Blanket Purchase Agreement for water delivery.