L & L Excavating, Inc.

L & L Excavating, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Mt Vernon, Oregon, supplies heavy equipment rental and logistical support for wildland fire suppression and emergency incident response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) across multiple indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements in the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

L & L Excavating's capability portfolio centers on firm fixed-price equipment rental for federal fire and hazard response, including dozers, excavators, water handling equipment (engines, support water tenders, tactical water tenders), vehicles, and associated personnel and logistical support. Recent representative work includes a $40,000 total small business set-aside delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 in July 2026 for equipment support in Pendleton, Oregon; a $30,000 order from Region 6 in September 2025 for John Day operations; and a $21,250 order in August 2024 for heavy equipment rental across Western regions. All recent awards carry firm fixed-price terms with ultimate completion dates ranging from two weeks to several years.

Customer concentration is extremely narrow and structural to the business model. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center account for 87% of awards by count and 96% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Within that, the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region anchors 40 awards ($1.8 million combined potential value) while the National Interagency Fire Center carries 15 awards ($4.1 million). The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission appears in two awards with no dollar magnitude disclosed. This concentration reflects L & L Excavating's positioning as a specialized incident-response equipment provider locked into the VIPR system's regional dispatch model.

L & L Excavating holds ten active indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements across the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service, all awarded under total small business set-asides with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 and performance periods extending through 2030. The top vehicles by task-order volume are IDC 1204H120T7297 (5 task orders, $206 thousand combined potential value), BPA AG04H1B177117 (4 task orders, $216 thousand), BPA AG04H1B137370 (4 task orders, $194 thousand), and two additional BPAs with four task orders each. These vehicles enable task-order issuance on an as-needed basis for regional fire suppression and prescribed project work across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 in the Western United States. Place of performance spans the Pacific Northwest and Western regions, with dispatch coordination managed regionally to optimize response time.

Recent activity shows modest growth. L & L Excavating received five awards in 2026 year-to-date, compared to three in 2025, two in 2024, one in 2023, and two in 2022. Combined potential value across all 67 awards in the portfolio totals $6.2 million, with $1.2 million obligated to date (20% draw). The company competes exclusively under total small business set-asides in the VIPR system, which restricts competition to small businesses and structures procurements as firm fixed-price equipment rental with regional dispatch preferences favoring vendors closest to resource locations. The business model prioritizes rapid incident response mobilization over multi-agency or cross-program diversification.