Robert James Mayer

Robert James Mayer, a sole proprietorship based in Show Low, Arizona, supplies heavy equipment rental and field crews for wildland fire management and emergency response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates exclusively in the fire suppression and presuppression space — all nineteen awards cluster under NAICS 332311 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation-Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression — and competes predominantly on Forest Service indefinite delivery contracts serving Regions 3 (Southwestern) and 8 (Southern).

Mayer's capability portfolio consists of specialized heavy equipment procurement and crewing for rapid wildfire incident response. Representative work includes a $50,826.75 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 8-Southern Region (July 2026) for fire management services with place of performance in Tallahassee, Florida; a $48,130.50 delivery order from Region 3-Southwestern Region (June 2025) for Type 2 dozers, excavators, tractor plows, and transport vehicles with trained field crews; and a $31,102 delivery order from Region 3 (July 2025) supplying similar equipment for Arizona and New Mexico wildfire operations. Equipment-specific services include dozers (Type 2 and standard), excavators, tractor plows, and transport vehicles, all paired with operational field personnel.

Customer concentration sits entirely within USDA Forest Service components. The four named funding components account for 100% of awards: USDA Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region leads by award count (11 awards, $746 thousand combined potential value), while USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by dollar value (3 awards, $799 thousand combined potential value). USDA Forest Service regional and national components absorb all activity.

Mayer holds positions on four active parent vehicles. The largest by task-order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB23T7173 (7 task orders, $221 thousand combined potential value), a total small business set-aside IDC awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on February 6, 2026, with a $500,000 ceiling running through May 1, 2028. A second major IDC is 12837121T7004 (4 task orders, $84 thousand combined potential value), issued by the Forest Service on May 1, 2023, under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system with a $250,000 ceiling for Regions 3 and 8, also running through May 1, 2028. Two additional contracts contribute smaller volumes: IDC AG8371B177042 (2 task orders, $66 thousand) and BPA AG8371B147075 (1 task order, $6 thousand).

Activity averages one to three awards annually over the past five years (2022: 3 awards; 2023: 1 award; 2024: 2 awards; 2025: 3 awards; 2026: 3 awards), representing stable but limited volume. The vendor has collected $1.7 million in combined potential value across nineteen awards since at least 2014, with $378 thousand obligated to date (23% drawdown rate). All work is prime; no subcontract footprint appears in the source.