Montana Northwest Company

Montana Northwest Company is a Missoula, Montana–based for-profit Subchapter S corporation that provides professional land surveying and cadastral survey services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates across 27 awards spanning nearly two decades, all with a single federal customer: the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Northern Region (Region 1), which accounts for 100% of Montana Northwest's federal work and $10.8 million of its $11.2 million combined potential value. The vendor competes solely under set-aside vehicles and has no subcontract footprint.

Montana Northwest's capability portfolio centers on property boundary surveying, monumentation, rights-of-way surveys, and Public Land Survey System retracement and resurvey work supporting timber harvest, vegetation management, and land management activities across the four-state Northern Region jurisdiction (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota). Representative work includes a $134,244 cadastral survey delivery order (May 2026) for the WLZ Siwash Powell project in Dalton Gardens, Idaho; a $70,460 delivery order (June 2026) surveying national forest boundaries for the Bull Creek Vegetation Management Project on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest; and a $30,744 task order (2021) for boundary surveying and posting on three and a half miles of national forest property.

Montana Northwest holds a single-award IDIQ with the Forest Service Northern Region valued at $5 million, awarded September 30, 2024, and running through September 29, 2029, with a $1,000 guaranteed annual minimum. Work is performed across the Northern Region under NAICS 541370 (Surveying and Mapping Services). Activity has been episodic — two awards in 2026, one in 2024, one in 2021, four in 2017 — reflecting task-order issuance timing under multiple prior and current IDIQ vehicles. Only two awards (combined potential value $205 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Obligations to date total $1.7 million (15% of potential value), indicating early-stage drawdown of the current IDIQ ceiling.

Land Surveying, Mapping, Planning and Consulting