Lake Mountain Contracting, LLC

Lake Mountain Contracting, LLC, a small business based in Ovando, Montana, supplies heavy equipment and personnel support for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor operating entirely under Total Small Business set-asides. The company provides dozers, excavators, tractor plows, feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, skidders, and associated field personnel for up to 16-hour daily shifts across Forest Service regions in the interior West.

Lake Mountain Contracting holds ten prime awards totaling $2.5 million in combined potential value, with combined dollars obligated at $266 thousand (11% of potential value), reflecting the company's position on active Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements under the USDA Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Customer concentration is heavy toward the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center, which anchors 6 awards worth $2.3 million combined potential value — 92% of the vendor's prime footprint — while the USDA Forest Service Region 1–Northern Region holds 3 awards worth $220 thousand, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region holds one $46 thousand purchase order. Both customer rankings track identically across volume and dollars.

The vendor's portfolio consists of multiple-award IDIQs under the VIPR system. Lake Mountain Contracting holds six indefinite-delivery contracts awarded February through June 2025–2026, each carrying a ceiling of $250 thousand to $500 thousand and running through 2028–2030, covering miscellaneous and heavy equipment with water services for Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (East Zone). These IDIQs are designated Total Small Business set-asides and permit interagency cooperation with the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Representative task orders include a $135,590 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded August 9, 2026, for fire suppression equipment and personnel in Dillon, Montana; a $66,937.50 delivery order from August 23, 2025, for heavy equipment support in Regions 1, 2, and 4; and a $17,500 delivery order from July 30, 2026, for fire suppression services in Missoula. Activity has grown from one award in 2023 to five in 2026, with all awards placed against the Forest Service VIPR framework. The vendor performs work at multiple locations across the interior West (Montana, Idaho, and subordinate Forest Service regions 1, 2, 4, and 9) with place of performance varying by individual delivery order or incident deployment.