Donald P Krider

Donald P Krider, doing business as Bear Creek Resources, is a veteran-owned sole proprietorship based in Prineville, Oregon, that supplies heavy equipment, water handling assets, transportation, and field personnel for wildland fire management and forestry operations to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. Bear Creek Resources is a DOT Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise registered in SAM.gov since 2003 and competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, particularly for emergency and incident response work through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

The vendor's footprint is concentrated in the Pacific Northwest and Western regions. The top two customer agencies—the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (14 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value) and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region (35 awards, $1.9 million combined potential value)—account for 87% of recent awards and 99% of combined potential value. The remaining customer base includes the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management offices in Idaho and Oregon-Washington. Bear Creek Resources holds five active indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs), three awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling equipment and heavy equipment across West Zone Regions 5 and 6, and two awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The IDCs carry ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 each and run through 2028 or 2030.

The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on wildland fire suppression and forestry support. Representative recent work includes a $62,400 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (August 7, 2026) for equipment and personnel supporting wildland fire management with performance in Sandy, Oregon; a $157,393.50 delivery order from the same region (August 14, 2024) for equipment and support services; and a $500,000 multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling equipment in the Pacific Northwest Region. Across all work, Bear Creek Resources supplies dozers, excavators, trucks, trailers, water tenders (Types 1–6), and specialized personnel to support fire suppression, water handling, and all-hazards incident response on national forests and grasslands.

Award activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years (7 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 4 in 2025, 6 in 2026), with combined potential value of $4.5 million across 67 prime awards and combined obligated dollars of $1.8 million (39% of potential value). The vendor does not subcontract and does not hold positions on government-wide contract vehicles or GSA Schedules; all work flows through small-business-set-aside IDCs and delivery orders issued by Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center procurement offices. NAICS coding is concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (60 awards) and Specialized Freight Trucking Local (4 awards), with PSC concentration on Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (58 awards).

wildland fire fighting