Kreps Ranch LLC

Kreps Ranch LLC, a White Salmon, Washington-based for-profit limited liability company, delivers heavy equipment rental and operator services for wildland fire suppression and forest management to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides across multiple regional indefinite-delivery contracts. The company is 100% small-business prime positioned and competes exclusively under set-aside vehicles, with all 29 recent awards carrying total small business designations.

Kreps Ranch specializes in providing Type 2 dozers, excavators, and certified personnel for fire response operations, vegetation clearing, and prescribed burns on national forest lands. Recent representative work includes a $143,000 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 for heavy equipment rental in support of fire suppression in Sandy, Oregon (August 2026), a $126,500 delivery order for equipment services in Wenatchee, Washington (September 2025), and an $86,400 delivery order for fuel reduction and controlled burns near Vancouver, Washington (August 2023). The company also performs all-hazard incident response and forest health initiatives across the Pacific Northwest and, under some IDCs, Regions 3 and 5.

Customer concentration is tightly focused on the USDA Forest Service. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the portfolio by potential value with ten awards totaling $2.8 million, while Forest Service Region 6—Pacific Northwest Region represents the highest award count with 18 orders totaling $1.1 million combined potential. A single Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 award of $20 thousand rounds out the customer set. Both rankings converge on the same top customer; the National Interagency Fire Center's awards carry larger individual ceilings, while Region 6 generates higher-frequency small orders.

Kreps Ranch holds four primary parent IDIQs, all under total small business set-asides from the National Interagency Fire Center. The largest vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7736 (7 task orders, $447 thousand combined potential value) for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 6 through August 2029, followed by IDC 1204H124T7168 (6 task orders, $332 thousand) for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 through May 2029. Two additional IDCs and a blanket purchase agreement round out the active vehicles, with ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 each and performance periods extending through 2028–2029. Award activity accelerated sharply from one award in 2021 to nine in 2024, with recent delivery orders issued in 2025 and 2026.

The company's footprint is concentrated in forest-service support activities under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry), representing 28 of 29 awards. Combined potential value across all awards is $4 million, with $919 thousand obligated to date (23% of potential). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime and carries no subcontract exposure. Kreps Ranch has maintained an active SAM.gov registration since August 2012 and has built a consistent delivery track record with the Forest Service through rapid procurement channels including the Virtual Incident Procurement system.