Mullenix Trucking, Inc.

Mullenix Trucking, Inc., operating as Mullenix Trucking, is a small-business prime contractor based in Mt Ida, Arkansas, providing road construction, reconstruction, and maintenance services; mechanical site preparation and ripping; gravel supply and equipment rental; and forest management support to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service on a 100% prime basis under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor engagement and competes predominantly under small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Mullenix Trucking maintains a deeply concentrated customer relationship. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) accounts for 171 of 188 awards (91% of the total) and $87.5 million of the $91 million combined potential value—97% of the portfolio. The National Interagency Fire Center places six awards worth $2 million for heavy equipment rental supporting fire suppression and emergency response across Regions 3 and 8. The remaining 11 awards span the Forest Service broadly and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, collectively carrying less than $300 thousand. Both rankings align tightly around the Southern Region dominance.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on National Forest System road construction, reconstruction, and maintenance across Arkansas national forests (Ouachita, Ozark-St. Francis, Ouachita-St. Francis National Forests, and Hot Springs National Park); mechanical site preparation including ripping and vegetation management for reforestation; gravel supply and placement; design-build construction of aquatic organism passage crossing structures; heavy equipment rental for incident response; and ancillary services including culvert replacement, brushhogging, and dam maintenance. Recent representative work includes a $567,816 total small business set-aside delivery order for National Forest Development Road 19 relocation on the Poteau Ranger District (ultimate completion April 2026), a $655,426 design-build order for aquatic organism passage crossing structures on National Forest System Road 114 under Saline County (completed by June 2026), an $866,654 firm fixed-price order for road repair and maintenance on the Ouachita National Forest (completed November 2025), and current September 2026 delivery orders totaling approximately $1.1 million for road reconstruction and stream crossing work across Perry, Mena, and Booneville, Arkansas locations.

Parent vehicle positioning clusters around seven active indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements. The largest is the $18 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (12445123D0035) for road construction in Arkansas through March 2028, under which Mullenix has placed 14 task orders totaling $3.8 million. An older $1.997 million multiple-award IDIQ for road maintenance services on Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests (expired March 2025) carried 25 task orders worth $3.4 million. The vendor also holds a $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for vegetative management and wildlife protection services through February 2028 and three multiple-award IDICs issued by the National Interagency Fire Center with combined ceilings of $1 million for heavy equipment rental across Regions 3 and 8 (two contracts awarded February 2026, one in May 2023).

Activity has remained steady at roughly 10–12 awards annually from 2022 through 2023, dropped to five awards in 2024, three in 2025, and rebounded to eleven in 2026. Nine awards totaling $1.6 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor has maintained a documented relationship with Forest Service Region 8 spanning since 2006—a twenty-year track record anchoring the portfolio.

Service Contract Inventory data reflects a narrow SCI footprint: five SCI-reportable records across FY2023–FY2025, concentrated in FY2024 with $642 thousand invoiced across 1.1 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts ran a median of $379.40 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $292.09 per hour and the 90th percentile at $466.72 per hour. SCI captures only a small portion of Mullenix's federal activity; the vast majority of its work involves goods procurement (gravel, culverts, aluminum boxes), equipment rental, and construction delivery orders that fall below or outside SCI reporting thresholds. The vendor's primary category concentration spans Support Activities for Forestry (90 awards) and Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction (81 awards) by NAICS, with PSC codes dominated by construction of highways, roads, and streets (52 awards) and natural resources/conservation activities (44 awards for non-construction forest and range improvements).

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