Kootenai Sand & Gravel Inc.

Kootenai Sand & Gravel Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Eureka, Montana, supplies sand, gravel, heavy equipment rentals, water handling resources, and incident-support services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center as a small-business prime contractor under total small business set-asides on its indefinite delivery contracts and competitive full-and-open delivery orders.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint. Kootenai Sand & Gravel holds primary NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) across 37 of its 41 recent awards, with secondary exposure in Construction Sand and Gravel Mining. The company's capability portfolio centers on wildland fire suppression and land management support: sand and gravel materials (including aggregate stockpiling), heavy equipment rentals (dozers, excavators, graders, water tenders, feller bunchers), water handling services, and road maintenance. Representative work includes a $76,430 purchase order from Forest Service Region 1 in September 2023 for delivery and stockpiling of approximately two thousand tons of Grade G aggregate to the Weasel Gravel Pit in Eureka, Montana; a $74,690 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 in August 2025 for equipment, materials, and incident-related services supporting wildland fire suppression; and a $51,000 delivery order from the same agency in July 2026 for sand, gravel, and wildfire support services in Libby, Montana.

Customer concentration is narrow and agency-specific. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 14 awards and $2.6 million in combined potential value (71% of dollars), while Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) holds 23 awards but only $1.1 million in combined potential value (30% of dollars). The disparity reflects Kootenai's role as a recurring small-dollar incident-response vendor under the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements, supplemented by larger IDC work through the National Interagency Fire Center. Combined, Forest Service variants (all budget lines) span 40 of 41 awards across five regional and program offices; GSA Public Buildings Service Region 8 accounts for the single non-USDA award, a $7 thousand delivery order.

Kootenai Sand & Gravel holds six active indefinite delivery contracts, all under total small business set-asides with ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 and expiration dates ranging from May 2025 through June 2030. The largest vehicles by combined task-order value are the VIPR I-BPA for Heavy Equipment for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (three task orders, $177 thousand combined potential value, completion June 2028), the VIPR I-BPA for Water Handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (four task orders, $210 thousand combined potential value, completion May 2030), and the VIPR I-BPA for Water Handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9 (seven task orders, $116 thousand combined potential value, completion May 2025). These vehicles establish on-call incident-response mechanisms allowing the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center to issue competitive or direct delivery orders as needed for emergency and prescribed-project work.

Activity has fluctuated: four awards in 2021 and 2025, eight in 2022, ten in 2023, and six in 2026 (current partial year through August). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $962 thousand against a $3.7 million potential value ceiling, indicating 26% utilization of available contract capacity. One IDC (the VIPR I-BPA for Water Handling across five regions) completes in May 2025, representing the vendor's only near-term recompete exposure in the source's data window. The vendor competes under total small business set-asides on IDC awards and under competitive full-and-open delivery orders against those IDCs, with no preference set-asides (8(a), SDVOSB, HUBZone, WOSB) present in the source material.

Retail sales of sand and gravel, precast concrete, and septic parts, excavation, construction, dump truck delivery.