Koch Construction, Inc.

Koch Construction, Inc., a Wyoming-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, provides heavy equipment, water handling capabilities, and specialized personnel to support wildland fire suppression, facility construction, and all-hazard incident response for the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple indefinite delivery vehicles and delivery orders. The company competes primarily under total small business set-asides on the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and related Forest Service regional contracts, with 100% of its federal footprint in prime awards.

Koch Construction serves a single dominant customer — the Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple organizational units. The top five customer components account for 94% of awards by count and 96% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center (part of the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management division) leads by dollar value with 21 awards totaling $5.8 million in combined potential value; the Intermountain Region (R4) ranks first by award count with 28 awards worth $2.1 million combined. The Rocky Mountain Research Station, Southwestern Region (R3), and Rocky Mountain Region (R2) round out the portfolio at $1.2 million, $857 thousand, and $283 thousand respectively. This extreme concentration — nearly all work flows through Forest Service channels — reflects Koch's specialization as a regional emergency-response equipment provider for federal fire and land-management operations.

Koch holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts under the VIPR I-BPA (Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement) system, each valued at $250,000 to $500,000 over 3-5 years. The top five parent vehicles account for 54 task orders and $4.6 million combined potential value. Representative contracts include a $500,000 VIPR I-BPA for Heavy Equipment Task Force (HETF) services in Regions 1 and 4, awarded February 6, 2026, a $500,000 contract for water handling equipment across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, awarded the same date, and a $500,000 contract for heavy equipment with water capabilities across Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, also awarded February 6, 2026. All are multiple-award, total small business set-asides running through 2028–2030. Against these vehicles, Koch receives frequent delivery orders for individual equipment and services; recent examples include a $130,980.55 order for fire suppression support in Price, Utah (July 29, 2026), a $214,575 order for excavators and water handling in Venice, Utah (July 29, 2025), and a $186,100 order also in Venice (August 6, 2025).

Activity has grown substantially — 11 awards in 2022 to 19 in 2024 — with a slight pullback to 9 awards in each of 2025 and 2026. Koch's portfolio concentrates in NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry), which accounts for 79 of 86 awards. The company delivers excavators, dozers, graders, feller bunchers, skidders, masticators, water handling equipment, and trained personnel across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9, with places of performance spanning Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and California. Combined potential value across all 86 awards stands at $10.7 million, with $5.3 million obligated (50% burn rate), reflecting the indefinite-delivery model in which ceilings and task-order drawdowns accumulate over multi-year vehicle periods. Koch has maintained continuous federal contractor status since SAM.gov registration in 2007 and competes exclusively under total small business set-asides, positioning it as a foundational resource for the Forest Service's emergency response capability in the Intermountain West and Southwest.