Lepage Company, Inc.

Lepage Company, Inc., doing business as Lepage Construction, provides heavy equipment rentals, water handling services, and operational support for wildland firefighting, emergency response, and land management activities to the USDA Forest Service and interagency fire management partners as a prime contractor operating under HUBZone and woman-owned small business designations. The company competes primarily under total small business set-asides on its indefinite-delivery vehicles and predominantly in full-and-open competition on task orders issued against those vehicles.

Lepage Construction is a HUBZone-certified, woman-owned small business Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Red Bluff, California, with active locations in California and New Mexico. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on renting and deploying heavy equipment—bulldozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, water tenders, chippers, and road graders—together with trained, certified personnel, transportation, and lodging support. The work is performed across western U.S. regions and is concentrated in NAICS 541611 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Representative prime awards include a $638,661 purchase order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) in May 2024 for backhoe rentals on a Lightning Complex incident; a $231,660 delivery order from the same region in July 2024 for heavy equipment rentals under a Virtual Incident Procurement contract; and a $150,688 purchase order from Region 5 in May 2024 for backhoe services on the Smith River Complex.

Customer concentration is extreme and regional. The Forest Service absorbs 94% of recent awards by count, with the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounting for 69 awards ($4.7 million), followed by the National Interagency Fire Center administering fire-management programs (13 awards, $3.8 million) and the Southwestern Region (Region 3) (8 awards, $586 thousand). By potential value, however, the single $7 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded by the Missoula Technology and Development Center in November 2021 for storm and natural disaster recovery in California and Nevada dominates the portfolio, representing 35% of combined potential value. This vehicle has not been fully obligated; combined obligated dollars across all awards are $8 million against $20 million potential.

Lepage holds a portfolio of IDIQs and BPAs under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system administered by the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the Forest Service. Recent awards include five new IDCs and one new BPA issued on February 6, 2026: a $500,000 ceiling IDC for water handling (Region 5), a $500,000 IDC for chippers (Regions 5 & 6), a $750,000 IDC for heavy equipment (West Zone Regions 5 & 6), and a $500,000 IDC for miscellaneous heavy equipment (Region 5). The top parent vehicle is IDC 1202SB21T7990 (26 task orders, $1.9 million), followed by IDC 129J6124T7195 (14 task orders, $928 thousand) and the Missoula BPA AG9J61B167050 (11 task orders, $686 thousand). All IDVs are total small business set-asides.

Activity has been volatile. Awards per year ranged from 4 (2025) to 25 (2024), with 149 total awards since 2009. Seven awards have been issued year-to-date in 2026, most recently in August. The vendor faces no significant recompete cliff within twenty-four months; the Missoula BPA ceiling was set to expire in November 2023 and is therefore expired in the current observation window, but the new generation of NIFC IDCs (awarded February 2026) and existing Forest Service region-level contracts provide ongoing vehicle continuity. Lepage operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint is present in the source data.

General contruction/contracting, excavation, heavy civil, reclamation, erosion control, restoration, drainage, trench service, road construction.