Earl Mortimore

Earl Mortimore, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Mitchell, Oregon, supplies heavy equipment and operator services for wildland fire suppression and emergency response to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related federal fire-management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor operates under the Support Activities for Forestry NAICS category and competes across both total small business set-asides and full-and-open procurements, with the majority of recent work flowing through set-aside indefinite delivery contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center and regional Forest Service dispatch centers under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Earl Mortimore's customer footprint is concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's fire-management apparatus. The top two customers account for 100% of recent awards: the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (12 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region (28 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value). The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and the Forest Service's R3-Southwestern Region round out a minimal set of secondary customers. The two rankings diverge meaningfully — the NIFC carries the higher potential-value share despite fewer awards — reflecting larger IDIQ ceilings on the NIFC vehicles versus task orders issued under regional BPAs.

Earl Mortimore holds five active indefinite delivery contracts, all with the National Interagency Fire Center or regional Forest Service entities. These include two NIFC multiple-award IDCs awarded in February 2026 with $500,000 ceilings each (one for Region 6-Pacific Northwest only, one for West Zone Regions 5 and 6), a May 2024 $250,000 Forest Service IDC for Region 6 miscellaneous heavy equipment, a June 2023 $250,000 NIFC IDC for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 running through June 9, 2028, and a June 2022 $250,000 NIFC IDC for Regions 5 and 6 with water-handling capability (expiring June 2, 2025). Task orders issued against these vehicles drive the primary revenue stream. Representative recent work includes a $13,772 August 2026 total-small-business delivery order under VIPR for Type 3 dozers and excavators supporting wildfire suppression across Pacific Northwest, Southwestern, and Western regions; a $21,600 May 2026 purchase order from the Forest Service Idaho Region for a Type 2 skidder at the Rowe Creek Complex; a $93,328 August 2024 delivery order under a Forest Service Region 6 IDC for heavy equipment and machinery; and a $175,310 August 2023 delivery order from Region 6 for dozers, excavators, operators, and support personnel.

Activity has been uneven over the past five years — five awards in 2021, seven in 2022, a sharp drop to two in 2023, three in 2024, and five in 2026 — with combined potential value across all forty-four prime awards standing at $3.8 million and combined obligated dollars at $1 million (27% draw rate). Earl Mortimore does not subcontract and operates solely as a prime contractor. Capability offerings center narrowly on the provisioning of specialized wildland firefighting equipment (Type 3 dozers, excavators, skidgens, engines) and related operator and logistics support to support federal wildfire suppression and prescribed project work across USDA and DOI lands in the Pacific Northwest, Southwestern, and Western United States.

Emergency Incident response, wildland Fires, Equipment