K & R Contracting LLC

K & R Contracting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in White Salmon, Washington, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, water handling services, and multipurpose utility vehicles to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) across a narrow customer base concentrated in Pacific Northwest wildland fire operations.

K & R Contracting's award portfolio centers on two customer concentrations within the Department of Agriculture. The USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors 4 awards worth $8.5 million in combined potential value — a $7.5 million multipurpose utility vehicle I-BPA (IDC 1202SB22T7927, extending through December 2026), a $500 thousand water handling indefinite delivery contract (IDC 1204H126T7317, extending through May 2030), and subordinate delivery orders. The USDA Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region accounts for the remaining 24 awards worth $1.5 million combined potential value, predominantly small delivery orders ranging from $2,800 to $207,200 for field equipment and services supporting land management and fire suppression operations in Oregon and Washington. Concrete recent work includes a $195 thousand delivery order (July 2026) for wildland fire suppression and land management support in the Pacific Northwest region, a $207.2 thousand delivery order (July 2024) for Forest Service operations, and a $52.5 thousand delivery order (September 2022) against the Region 6 multiple award contract vehicle. Place of performance spans Pendleton, Oregon; Roseburg, Oregon; and Springfield, Oregon — all within the USFS Pacific Northwest Region footprint.

The vendor's capability portfolio, grounded in NAICS 541612 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, comprises water handling equipment (Engines Type 3–6, Support Water Tenders Type 1–3, Tactical Water Tenders Type 1–2), multipurpose all-terrain and off-highway utility vehicles, equipment transportation, personnel staffing, and logistics support for wildland fire incident response, prescribed burn operations, and federal land management. All work is performed on a firm fixed-price basis. K & R Contracting holds four primary indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, with task orders placed by dispatch centers regionally. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count include IDC 1202SB22T7927 (10 task orders, $469 thousand), IDC 1204H125T7428 (4 task orders, $344 thousand), and BPA AG04H1B167336 (3 task orders, $90 thousand). Award activity shows volatility — 5 awards in 2022, 2 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 7 in 2026 year-to-date — with a combined potential value of $10 million across 28 prime awards. Obligated dollars total $968 thousand (10% of potential value), indicating substantial unfunded delivery-order optionality across active contracts.