Herc Rentals Inc.

Herc Rentals Inc., doing business as Herc Rentals #9331, is a South Carolina-based equipment rental company that operates as a for-profit corporate entity and provides heavy machinery and lifting equipment leasing services to federal agencies, exclusively as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders.

The vendor's federal footprint spans equipment rental across multiple classes — forklift and stackie services, boom lifts, and materials-handling machinery — primarily in support of Coast Guard operations and vessel maintenance. Representative recent awards include a $2.3 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard for equipment rental services in support of Foreign Military Sales Economic Development Assistance yard work at Curtis Bay in Baltimore, Maryland (awarded January 14, 2026, completing March 8, 2026); a $15 thousand purchase order for WOTC forklift and stackie services at Curtis Bay (awarded September 23, 2025, completing December 31, 2025); a $9.8 thousand purchase order for CGC JAMES BOOMLIFT rental at Charleston, South Carolina (awarded October 28, 2022, completing November 15, 2022, designated Total Small Business); and a $10.1 thousand purchase order for boom lift rental in Honolulu, Hawaii (awarded March 24, 2022).

The vendor serves three distinct federal agencies, with the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard accounting for 100% of recent dollar value across four awards totaling $37 thousand combined potential value. The Department of the Navy and the Department of the Army Materiel Command contribute two and one award respectively, with the Army award valued at $3 thousand. Seven total awards appear in the source data spanning from 1989 to January 2026, with recent activity clustered in 2022, 2025, and 2026. The vendor has no presence on larger contract vehicles or blanket purchase agreements and operates exclusively on discrete purchase orders with short performance windows, typically thirty to ninety days.