Mountain Barge Services LLC

Mountain Barge Services LLC, based in Chelan, Washington, provides specialized barge transportation, remote-area logistics, and infrastructure services to federal agencies as a small disadvantaged business prime contractor, with work concentrated in geographically isolated locations throughout the Pacific Northwest where water-based or helicopter-delivered supplies are the only practical delivery method.

Mountain Barge Services is a for-profit limited liability company and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered at 41 Anderson Road, Chelan, Washington. The vendor competes entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and holds no parent vehicle positions; work is awarded through direct purchase orders and a single-award indefinite-delivery contract. The company's capability portfolio centers on inland water freight transportation (22 awards), solid waste collection and disposal (7 awards), propane delivery (6 awards, PSC 6420), support activities for forestry and emergency response (6 awards), and heavy civil engineering construction including bridge fabrication, riprap delivery, and road maintenance (8 awards combined). Concrete recent work includes a $857,487.88 definitive contract for fabrication and construction of a steel truss bridge in North Cascades National Park's Stehekin District (awarded July 3, 2024); a $148,262.55 contract for supply, delivery, and placement of approximately 500 tons of heavy-loose riprap along Stehekin Valley Road (awarded April 1, 2026); a $92,100.00 small-business set-aside purchase order for barge transportation of materials, supplies, bulk fuel, vehicles, and equipment between Stehekin and Chelan through November 2029 (awarded April 10, 2025); and a $188,887.50 contract for snow removal and road maintenance services in the Stehekin District with a labor-hours pricing structure (awarded November 22, 2022, extended through January 2026).

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated within the National Park Service Pacific West Region, which holds 33 awards (77% of the source footprint) with combined potential value of $5.4 million (81% of total potential value). The U.S. Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region and Forest Service provide the next tier, combining 13 awards worth $830 thousand. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration holds a single award worth $3 thousand. Work is performed across North Cascades National Park Complex, Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, and the Stehekin District, Washington, with subordinate sites in Wenatchee and Sedro-Woolley. The vendor is registered in the System for Award Management since 2003 and has been awarded federal contracts dating to 1991, reflecting long-standing reliance by civilian land-management agencies on its water-transportation and remote-logistics capabilities.

Activity has grown modestly in recent years, from 2 awards in 2023 and 2024 to 7 awards in 2026 (through June). The combined potential value across all 62 awards is $6.7 million, with $4.9 million (74%) obligated to date. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (a $40 thousand contract), creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The top NAICS categories are Inland Water Freight Transportation (NAICS 483212, 22 awards) and Solid Waste Collection (NAICS 562111, 7 awards); the top PSC is Transportation/Travel/Relocation—Transportation: Vessel Freight (23 awards). Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable activity (2 records across FY2022–FY2024, with 0.1 FTEs), as most of the vendor's federal work involves goods procurement, transportation services, or contracts below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. Set-aside posture is mixed: approximately 18 of the 62 awards (29%) carry small-business set-aside designations (total small business or partial), with the remainder awarded full-and-open or without stated set-aside; all work is performed by Mountain Barge Services as prime, with no subcontractor relationships disclosed in the source.