Mullenix Trucking, Inc.

Mullenix Trucking, Inc., doing business as Mullenix Trucking, is a small-business prime contractor based in Mt Ida, Arkansas, providing road construction, maintenance, mechanical site preparation, equipment rental, and forest-management services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center. The vendor operates 100% as a prime contractor across a deep, long-term relationship with USDA Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) spanning since 2006, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements.

Mullenix Trucking is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation with a total-small-business set-aside posture across most vehicles. The vendor's federal award footprint spans 181 prime contracts and IDVs with a combined potential value of $89 million, though activity has moderated in recent years—declining from 12 awards in 2022 to 4 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Customer concentration is extreme: the USDA Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 165 awards carrying $86.2 million in combined potential value, or 97 percent of all awards and 99 percent of dollars. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 6 awards valued at $1.5 million. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 and the Forest Service's central organization together account for less than 1 percent of awards.

Mullenix Trucking's capability portfolio centers on mechanical site preparation (ripping, brush hogging, disking, and site clearing), road construction and reconstruction, road maintenance and repair, gravel and material supply, culvert replacement and metal-box supply, aquatic organism passage structure design-build, and heavy equipment rental for fire suppression and emergency response. Representative work includes a $866,654 delivery order (awarded November 15, 2025, ultimate completion June 30, 2026) for road repair and maintenance on the Ouachita National Forest under a single-award $18 million Indefinite Delivery Contract; a $651,400 delivery order (awarded September 30, 2024, completion June 30, 2026) for design-build construction of two aquatic organism passage crossing structures on National Forest System Road 114 in Saline County, Arkansas; and a $567,816 delivery order (awarded July 1, 2023, completion April 30, 2026) for relocation of National Forest Development Road 19 following 2022 landslide damage on the Poteau Ranger District. Mechanical site preparation and road maintenance dominate the award mix, reflected in top NAICS categories of Support Activities for Forestry (90 awards) and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (74 awards).

Mullenix Trucking holds six active indefinite delivery vehicles with the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center totaling over $28 million in ceiling value: an $18 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA Forest Service Region 8 for road construction in Arkansas (awarded July 1, 2023, through March 31, 2028); a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Region 8 for vegetative management and wildlife protection services (awarded March 7, 2023, through February 28, 2028, with an option year exercised through February 28, 2027); a $250 thousand multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Interagency Fire Center for miscellaneous heavy equipment rental in Regions 3 and 8 (awarded February 6, 2026, through April 11, 2030); a second $250 thousand multiple-award IDC with NIFC for heavy equipment in Regions 3 and 8 (awarded February 6, 2026, through May 2, 2028); a third $250 thousand multiple-award IDC with NIFC for the VIPR program in Regions 3 and 8 (awarded April 11, 2025, through April 11, 2030); and a smaller $1.997 million multiple-award IDC with Region 8 for road maintenance on Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests (awarded April 8, 2022, through March 31, 2025). Task orders issued under these vehicles span gravel supply, culvert and material procurement, site preparation, road reconstruction, and dam and infrastructure maintenance.

The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is modest: two awards with combined potential value of $62 thousand reach ultimate completion in that window, signaling limited immediate recompete exposure relative to the vendor's total portfolio. Activity has declined sharply—from 12 awards in 2022 to 3 in 2025 and 4 in 2026 year-to-date—suggesting either mission completion on legacy vehicles or reduced task-order issuance from a stable base of IDVs. The vendor does not operate as a subcontractor and does not engage named subcontractors on reported work.

Service Contract Inventory data shows Mullenix Trucking reported $642 thousand in invoiced revenue across prime contracts in FY2024 (with 1.1 FTEs), with no SCI-reportable activity in FY2023. This SCI footprint represents a narrow slice of the vendor's federal services revenue—a small portion of its total enterprise activity—and reflects only contracts above the $150 thousand reporting threshold that involve service labor. SCI-reported government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $292.09 per hour to a median of $379.40 per hour and a 90th percentile of $466.72 per hour on prime contracts, indicating mid-market labor pricing for skilled construction and equipment-rental personnel.

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