Hendon, Douglas H

Hendon, Douglas H, doing business as D-G Backhoe Service, is a sole proprietorship based in Wellington, Nevada that provides heavy equipment rental and operator services—backhoes, dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, and skidders—exclusively to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related interagency fire and land management programs as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides. The vendor competes as a small business on total-small-business-set-aside IDIQs and delivery orders, with no SDVOSB, HUBZone, or other secondary designations present in the award record, though some underlying vehicles note eligibility consideration for SDVOSB and HUBZone vendors in scoring.

D-G Backhoe Service operates entirely within wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire, all-hazard incident response, and Forest Service land management—a narrow but durable customer base. The top three funding sources account for 83% of recent awards: the National Interagency Fire Center (10 awards, $3.3 million combined potential value), USDA Forest Service Region 5–Pacific Southwest (6 awards, $625 thousand), and USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (5 awards, $231 thousand). Dollar concentration tracks volume concentration tightly; NIFC anchors the portfolio at roughly 72% of combined potential value. The vendor holds seven IDIQs across NIFC and Forest Service regional procurement: four total-small-business-set-aside IDIQs awarded February 6, 2026 (West Zone Regions 5 and 6, East Zone Regions 1–2 and 4, and Region 5 miscellaneous equipment, each with $500 thousand or $250 thousand ceilings through 2028–2029), and three earlier IDIQs from June 2023–June 2024 (also $250 thousand ceilings, also total small business set-asides). Recent named delivery orders include a $188.6 thousand firm-fixed-price task order under Region 5 (July 2024), a $199.6 thousand task order also under Region 5 (August 2023), a $97.2 thousand task order under Region 5 (July 2024), and a $40 thousand purchase order from Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region for dozer services (June 2025).

Activity has been modest and uneven—two awards in 2022, four in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and three in 2026—with combined potential value across all twenty-nine prime awards totaling $4.6 million. The vendor holds no subcontract positions and serves no other federal agencies or mission areas outside forestry and fire operations. Place of performance spans multiple Forest Service regions (Regions 1–6 and 9) and subordinate incident commands, with administrative oversight routed through the National Interagency Fire Center and regional Forest Service offices. Equipment is provided on firm-fixed-price, daily-shift-basis deployment up to sixteen hours as needed for rapid incident response, with vendor positioning weighted toward proximity to dispatch centers for emergency access.