High Desert Excavation & Construction, LLC

High Desert Excavation & Construction, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Ontario, Oregon, operates as a sole proprietor delivering construction and mobile emergency-support services to federal land and resource agencies, primarily through small-business set-aside purchases and indefinite delivery contracts as a prime contractor. All five recent federal awards are prime contracts or IDVs; the vendor does not subcontract to larger primes.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on two distinct service lines. The primary work is potable and gray water truck and handwashing station services (trailer-mounted) for wildfire and all-hazard incident response — a critical support function for USDA Forest Service and interagency cooperators across Regions 1, 2, and 4 of the Intermountain West. High Desert Excavation holds two active indefinite delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center with combined ceiling value of $750 thousand and performance running through May 1, 2030; one contract carries a $500 thousand ceiling awarded February 6, 2026, and a second carries a $250 thousand ceiling awarded May 1, 2025. Both are multiple-award IDVs reserved for small business and require on-call availability for up to 16-hour daily shifts. The vendor also performs light construction and site services — a $50 thousand roof repair contract from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (September 17, 2026, firm fixed price, completion by March 27, 2027) and a $4.9 thousand dumpster and equipment-shed service order from the Forest Service R4 Intermountain Region (no set-aside, completed August 2023).

Customer concentration is tight. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center, anchors the portfolio with two awards representing $750 thousand (93% of combined potential value). The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and the Forest Service R4 Intermountain Region account for the remainder. Activity is light but recent — one award in 2023, one in 2025, and three in 2026 — with a single recompete risk of $50 thousand due in the next twenty-four months. All awards are set-aside to small business (Total Small Business), and the vendor has not competed in full-and-open or other socioeconomic categories.