Hughes, Patrick

Hughes, Patrick — operating as Patrick Hughes Construction Division and doing business as Patrick Hughes Trucking & Excavating — is a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Powell Butte, Oregon, that provides heavy equipment, water handling systems, transportation, and excavation support for wildland fire suppression and emergency response as a prime contractor exclusively under small business set-asides on federal land-management agency vehicles.

The vendor competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides across Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements. Recent activity includes a $26,320 delivery order from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded July 19, 2026, for water handling systems and excavation in support of wildland fire response at Prineville, Oregon; a $219,085 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 awarded September 12, 2024, for water tenders, excavators, trucks, and water-handling services for fire suppression completing November 20, 2024; and a $65,550 delivery order from the same region awarded August 19, 2023, for equipment and support services related to wildland fire response.

Customer concentration is geographic and agency-narrow. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 49 of 63 named awards (77% of portfolio) with $2 million combined potential value, while the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds 9 awards with $2.1 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington represents a smaller footprint of 4 awards ($68 thousand). All customer agencies are clustered around federal land management and wildfire response in the Pacific Northwest and Western regions. The vendor holds five named parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (1202SB22T7896) with 11 task orders ($377 thousand combined potential value), Blanket Purchase Agreements AG04H1B167249 and AG04H1B177094 (8 and 4 task orders respectively, $158 thousand and $203 thousand combined), and two additional Indefinite Delivery Contracts (1204H119T7226 and 1204H120T7222) with 5 task orders each ($84 thousand and $135 thousand combined).

Activity has remained modest and episodic. The vendor received 8 awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 5 through mid-2026. Combined potential value across all 65 prime awards is $4.2 million, with $1.5 million obligated (36% utilization). NAICS categorization is dominated by Support Activities for Forestry (61 awards), with PSC coding concentrated on Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (61 awards). The vendor has no subcontractor role in the source data; 100% of awards are prime contracts and IDVs. Geographic scope of performance spans the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) and West Zone Regions 3, 5, and 6, with equipment including Engines Type 3–6, Support and Tactical Water Tenders, excavators, dozers, and field personnel for rapid deployment during wildfire and emergency response incidents.