Kanduch Logging Inc.

Kanduch Logging Inc., doing business as KLM Contracting, operates as a prime contractor delivering forest management, mechanical fuels reduction, ecosystem restoration, and heavy equipment services exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with a total small business set-aside posture across the majority of its federal footprint. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Philipsburg, Montana, competing under total small business set-asides on most awards and full-and-open competitions on a subset of heavy equipment purchase orders.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) accounts for 27 awards and $71.5 million of the $74.5 million combined potential value across the vendor's entire federal footprint—97% of awards and 96% of dollars. The National Interagency Fire Center, also within the Department of Agriculture, holds eight awards valued at $3 million. Work is performed across the Northern Rockies, spanning Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, with Dillon, Montana and Bozeman, Montana as primary performance locations.

Kanduch Logging Inc. holds two anchor IDIQs with Forest Service Region 1. A $50 million single-award Northern Rockies Stewardship Blanket Purchase Agreement runs through October 2032 and supports task orders for stewardship services including logging, replanting, invasive species removal, and fuels reduction across four-state coverage. A $12.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for mechanical thinning and stand improvement in Regions 1 and 4 runs through September 2027; task-order activity under this vehicle accelerated sharply, with eleven orders issued in 2025 and five through May 2026. Recent representative work includes a $359.9 thousand purchase order for log loaders and logging trucks (August 2026), a $142.8 thousand purchase order for logging truck services (September 2026), and a $97.3 thousand delivery order for forest management work (August 2025). The vendor also holds eight multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center under total small business set-asides for heavy equipment task forces across East Zone regions (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), each carrying ceiling values between $250 thousand and $500 thousand, running through 2030, for fire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed burn operations with equipment including dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, and skidders.

Activity has surged in recent years. Awards per year grew from one in 2022 and 2023 to eleven in 2025 and seventeen through September 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Kanduch Logging Inc. received a $258.8 thousand Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program (CFDA 10.725) in August 2025 for establishment and improvement of wood processing infrastructure and equipment at the Philipsburg facility, with completion through August 2027. The vendor also received a $459.9 thousand Project Grant under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) in June 2024 for an Inflation Reduction Act firewood processing facility project with completion through October 2026. Both grants support processing of forest management byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects on federal and tribal lands in the Northern Rockies wildfire-prone region, stimulating rural economic development and job creation.