Thomas Long & Son Trucking

Thomas Long & Son Trucking, a small-business partnership operating from Orr, Minnesota, provides roadway grading, surface blading, and emergency road repairs to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a 100% prime contractor, competing almost exclusively under total small-business set-asides across multiple-award and single-award vehicles. The vendor holds no subcontract footprint and works exclusively with a single federal customer: the Forest Service's Region 9 (Eastern Region).

Thomas Long & Son Trucking operates in the highway and bridge construction space (76 of 88 awards under NAICS 541512, with the remainder in forestry support and civil engineering). Representative work includes a $119,576.91 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded May 5, 2026, for grading crushed-aggregate roadways on the Superior National Forest's East Zone, encompassing approximately 388 miles of single-lane, 489 miles of double-lane, and 9 miles of recreation roadway, with performance due November 30, 2026; a $106,395.60 delivery order issued June 11, 2025, for road grading on the West Zone during the 2025 grading season; and a $131,025.81 BPA call dated June 2, 2025, for repairing flood damage on roads around the Lacroix Ranger District. Most work involves motor-grader services and surface maintenance on the Superior National Forest's approximately 1,579 miles of crushed-aggregate roadway.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Forest Service Region 9 Eastern Region accounts for 100% of combined potential value ($16 million) across 82 awards. The vendor places task orders against five parent vehicles. The largest is an indefinite delivery contract (AG63A9C140029) carrying 27 task orders worth $169 thousand combined; the Northeast Zone Region 9 Roads BPA (12445522A0114), awarded March 28, 2022 with a $250,000 ceiling and running through March 31, 2032, carries 6 task orders worth $472 thousand. The vendor also holds a single-award forestwide-grading IDC awarded May 26, 2025, with a $4 million potential value and ultimate completion through December 31, 2029, from which at least one delivery order has been issued. Recent activity is sparse and flat: one award in 2026, three in 2025, two in 2024, and one in 2023. Only one award ($120 thousand) completes in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure but also signaling a narrow, stable customer relationship with no geographic or customer-base diversification.