M. Peters, Inc.

M. Peters, Inc., doing business as Peters Enterprises, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Montague, California, that operates as a prime contractor providing forest management infrastructure, heavy equipment rentals, wildfire suppression support, and road construction and maintenance services exclusively to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related federal fire management agencies. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, with total small-business designations on multiple core vehicles.

Peters Enterprises operates almost entirely within the USDA Forest Service ecosystem. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region accounts for 97% of the vendor's 151 prime awards and $104.7 million of the combined $108.8 million potential value. The vendor also holds smaller task order relationships with the National Interagency Fire Center (9 awards, $3 million) and Federal Fire and Aviation Management (18 awards, $868 thousand). This concentration reflects a long-standing regional partnership—the vendor has held federal contracts with the Forest Service since 2004 and maintains operational presence in Yreka and Montague, California.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on forest support services coded under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry). Representative prime work includes a $385 thousand Total Small Business purchase order awarded October 30, 2026, for Phase 1 construction of a permanent helipad at Ash Creek Guard Station within Shasta-Trinity National Forest (273 calendar days, requiring California Class A General Contractor license); a $198 thousand Total Small Business definitive contract for 39N30 roadway reconditioning in the Klamath National Forest (awarded July 30, 2024); a $69 thousand Total Small Business definitive contract for Parker Creek Road emergency realignment in Alturas, California (awarded August 7, 2023); and a $311 thousand delivery order for Great American Outdoors Act Sarah Totten and Kangaroo Lake Campground repaving (August 1, 2022 through February 11, 2023). The vendor also delivers road construction, maintenance, and repair; wildland fire equipment and water handling; heavy equipment rentals; vegetation management; and transportation support services across multiple regional IDCs.

Peters Enterprises holds a portfolio of parent vehicles anchoring its work. The largest single vehicle is a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (AG9J61B147364) for California Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance covering 20 national forests and grasslands statewide, awarded April 5, 2023, through March 31, 2033, under a Total Small Business set-aside. The vendor also sits on multiple multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center—including three $500 thousand total small business IDCs awarded February 6, 2026, for water handling equipment, heavy equipment, and miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 5 (running through June 2028–2030); three $250 thousand total small business IDCs for water handling and heavy equipment in Regions 5 and 6 (awarded June 2023–2025, running through June 2028–2029); and an older $250 thousand multiple-award water handling IDC for Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 (awarded June 8, 2022). The top parent vehicle by task order volume is an IDC (AG9AC7C170076) carrying 31 task orders valued at $8.6 million combined potential value.

Award activity peaked in 2022 with 29 awards but has declined sharply—2023 carried 19 awards, 2024 only 3, 2025 only 6, and 2026 only 4 awards through October. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months ($385 thousand in recompete exposure). The vendor obligated only $14.9 million of its $108.8 million combined potential value (14%), indicating a large tail of unexercised task order capacity under its IDC vehicles. Peters Enterprises competes entirely as a prime contractor; zero sub-award activity appears in the federal award footprint. The vendor's federal work is geographically concentrated in California's Pacific Southwest Region national forests, with task orders issued under firm fixed-price delivery order and purchase order vehicles that enable rapid mobilization of resources for fire suppression and land management operations.

General construction, equipment renatal and trucking, land development, site preperation.