Iron Triangle LLC

Iron Triangle LLC, doing business as Iron Triangle Logging, is a Nebraska-based small-business forestry and timber harvesting contractor that operates exclusively as a prime contractor on federal land management agency work, with no subcontracting footprint and no SBA set-aside certifications beyond small business status. The company competes full-and-open on all prime awards and has secured $403.9 million in combined potential value across 223 recent federal awards, the vast majority anchored to Forest Service work in the Pacific Northwest Region.

Iron Triangle's capability portfolio centers on hazardous fuels reduction, wildland fire suppression support, timber harvesting, stewardship contracting, and emergency equipment rental. Representative contract work includes a $1.2 million definitive contract with USDA Forest Service Region 6 for hazardous tree removal in the Falls Fire perimeter (Malheur National Forest, awarded August 2025, running through December 2027); a $2.54 million BPA call under the Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA for falling, decking, slash piling, and biomass removal in the Falls Fire (awarded December 2025, completion through December 2028); a $140 million multiple-award IDIQ from the Bureau of Land Management for East Oregon mechanical hazardous fuel reduction (awarded September 2023, through August 2028); and a $50 million single-award Intermountain Stewardship BPA with Forest Service Region 4 for vegetation management and stewardship across Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming (awarded May 2023, through October 2032). Recent equipment procurement work includes purchase orders for forwarders, log loaders, dump trucks, skidgines, and excavators to support forest management operations in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain regions. Iron Triangle also holds eight separate NIFC-awarded small-business set-aside IDIQs ranging from $250,000 to $750,000 each for heavy equipment task forces, water handling equipment, and miscellaneous heavy equipment across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, and 6 — these vehicles were awarded or extended between May 2025 and February 2026 and carry completion dates through 2030.

Customer concentration is extreme and intentional: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6–Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 155 of 223 awards (87% of total award count) and $202.8 million of $403.9 million combined potential value (50% of dollars). When the BLM's $140 million East Oregon IDIQ and the Forest Service Region 4's $50 million Intermountain Stewardship BPA are included, federal land management agencies in the western United States represent approximately 99% of Iron Triangle's dollar footprint. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors 18 awards worth $5.2 million in emergency equipment support; smaller customer agencies (Forest Service headquarters, OSHARC, and others) carry the remaining 1%. There is no tension between award-count and potential-value rankings — the Pacific Northwest Region dominates both metrics decisively.

Iron Triangle's vehicle position is dominated by large Forest Service stewardship and hazardous fuels reduction BPAs and IDIQs. The Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (single award, $50 million, Region 6) and Intermountain Stewardship BPA (single award, $50 million, Region 4) represent the core long-term contracting vehicles, running through October 2032. Task orders under these vehicles and subordinate regional IDIQs represent the majority of recent award activity. The Malheur National Forest Fuels Reduction BPA ($1 million, single award, Region 6, through August 2032) and the BLM East Oregon Mechanical Hazardous Fuel Reduction IDIQ ($140 million, multiple award, through August 2028) provide additional standing authority for delivery orders. Eight NIFC VIPR I-BPA awards for fire suppression equipment (ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, awarded 2022–2026, expiring through 2030) establish rapid-response incident blanket purchase agreements for the western fire season.

Activity has trended upward: six awards in 2022, six in 2023, eleven in 2024, eleven in 2025, and twenty-four through September 2026 — the 2026 surge reflects delivery order issuance activity under the two large $50 million stewardship BPAs. Over the next twenty-four months, eight awards with combined potential value of $2.3 million face ultimate completion, representing minimal recompete exposure in the immediate horizon; the real recompete cliff emerges in 2027–2028 when the Intermountain Stewardship BPA and other large vehicles cycle toward renewal or expiration. NAICS coding concentrates in Support Activities for Forestry (125 awards) and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (51 awards), with Logging (23 awards) rounding out the top three; PSC codes align with forest-range fire suppression, presuppression, and rehabilitation work.

Iron Triangle has also received significant federal grant funding independent of its contract footprint. Recent grants include $6.997 million under the Inflation Reduction Act Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance program (CFDA 10.728, awarded November 2025) for hauling economically constrained biomass from sixty-five active forest management projects to processing facilities; $4.758 million under the same program (awarded January 2025); $1.372 million under the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act Financial Assistance for Byproducts Processing program (CFDA 10.725, awarded April 2026) for retrofitting and reopening the former Malheur Lumber Company facility in John Day, Oregon; and $572 thousand under the Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program (CFDA 10.708, awarded September 2022). These grants support Iron Triangle's downstream vertical integration into wood processing and biomass utilization, extending the value chain beyond harvest and fuels reduction into manufacturing and energy production — a strategy aligned with the company's stewardship contractor positioning and federal policy priorities around post-fire restoration and sustainable biomass markets.

Iron Triangle has been in business for 18 years the LLC Company was developed in 1998. We construct and reconstruct roads, build bridges, logging, mechanized thinning, and excavation. We do both commercial and residential work.