High Country Contracting LLC

High Country Contracting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) based in Rigby, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor delivering fuel tender services, vegetation management support, and wildland fire suppression equipment and personnel to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management across western Forest Service regions. The vendor competes entirely on full-and-open contracts with no set-aside designations on individual task orders, though the underlying IDCs and BPAs it holds are frequently set aside for small businesses at the vehicle level.

The company's footprint is almost entirely concentrated within the Forest Service's regional operations, with 88 percent of recent awards (73 contracts by count) distributed across five Forest Service regions — the Pacific Northwest Region (R6) leads in potential value at $2.5 million across 19 awards, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center at $1.8 million across 7 awards (fuel tender IDCs), the Intermountain Region (R4) at $1.5 million across 23 awards, the Southwestern Region (R3) at $745 thousand across 15 awards, and the Northern Region (R1) at $432 thousand across 9 awards. The dollar ranking and award-count ranking diverge slightly; R6 and NIFC anchor the value while R4 leads on volume. Combined potential value across all 83 awards totals $8.1 million, of which $6.1 million (76 percent) has been obligated. Recent representative work includes a $450,214.10 Type 2 fuel tender purchase order from R6 (August 2024), a $319,849.12 forest management delivery order from R6 (August 2024), a $278,099.42 delivery order from Region 5 (August 2025), and a $259,629.96 vegetation control delivery order from R5 (August 2025).

High Country Contracting holds four active Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on February 6, 2026: fuel tender services for Regions 1, 2, and 4 ($250,000 ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside); fuel tender for Region 3 only ($250,000 ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside); fuel tender for the West Zone covering Regions 5 and 6 ($250,000 ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside); and a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service's Northern Region for fuel and fuel delivery to support helitorch operations in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest ($125,000 ceiling through May 2029, no set-aside). The vendor also maintains four older IDCs originally awarded through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system in 2022–2023, all valued at $250,000 each and covering Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9 (water handling); Region 3 (fuel tender); the West Zone (fuel tender); and a BPA with the Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region for fuel services and helitorch prescribed burns ($100,000 ceiling through January 2028). The top three parent vehicles account for 61 of 83 total awards: IDC 1202SB23T7038 with 25 task orders ($2.1 million), IDC 1202SB23T7084 with 20 task orders ($1.3 million), and IDC 12569R23T7013 with 16 task orders ($1.7 million).

Activity scaled sharply — five awards in 2022 to 37 in 2024 — before moderating to 18 in 2025 and 6 in the partial year 2026 (through late June). The awards-per-year trajectory signals growth and recompete urgency; the source does not provide a structured recompete cliff, but the February 2026 IDC awards with 2028 completion dates and the May 2029 BPA represent material recompete exposure in 2027–2028. High Country Contracting operates as a prime contractor on 100 percent of awards; the source identifies no subcontractor footprint.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on fuel tender operations, fuel delivery logistics, water handling equipment, and personnel support for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burn operations, and hazardous fuel reduction across Forest Service and BLM properties. Individual delivery orders under the IDCs and BPAs typically range from $3,898 to $319,849 and are structured as firm fixed-price, short-duration task orders with completion windows of one week to several months. High Country Contracting's federal customer base is narrowly specialized — the Forest Service at all regional levels accounts for the overwhelming majority of the portfolio, with only incidental work from BLM Arizona and the National Interagency Fire Center. The vendor's NAICS coding reflects this focus: 68 of 83 awards are classified under 324110 (Petroleum Refineries), with 14 under Support Activities for Forestry; the PSC is dominated by Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (82 awards).