North Slope Resource CO.

North Slope Resource Co., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in North Powder, Oregon, provides vegetation management, forest stewardship, wildland fire suppression support, and heavy equipment services to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing exclusively under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations across USDA Forest Service regional contracts.

North Slope Resource Co. operates as a Subchapter S for-profit corporation with self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) and woman-owned small business (WOSB) designations. The vendor's award portfolio is geographically concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, driven by two customer agencies: the USDA Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 39 awards valued at $63 million combined potential value, while the National Interagency Fire Center (part of USDA Fire and Aviation Management) holds 5 awards worth $1.8 million combined potential value. The two agencies account for all tracked recent prime work; concentration is extreme — 83% of award count and 99% of combined potential value flow to these two USDA entities.

The vendor holds a dominant position on a $50 million ten-year Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA running through October 2032 as the single prime contractor, covering forest stewardship, vegetation management, habitat restoration, watershed work, and fuels reduction across Oregon and Washington national forests. Delivery order activity under that vehicle dominates the recent footprint. Supporting BPAs include a $4.9 million mechanical and hand thinning agreement expiring May 2027. Two National Interagency Fire Center multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts for heavy equipment support — one covering Region 6 only ($500,000 ceiling through May 2029) and another covering West Zone Regions 5 and 6 ($500,000 ceiling through June 2028) — provide emergency-response and prescribed-project equipment capacity. Top delivery order vehicles include AG04R3C070023 (8 task orders, $743 thousand) and AG04H1B157233 (7 task orders, $328 thousand). The vendor's concrete work includes a $491,250 BPA call for Ables Ridge Mechanical Thinning in Pomeroy, Washington (completion November 2025), a $119,321.88 delivery order for vegetation management and wildland fire suppression support in Pendleton, Oregon (completion July 2026), and a $100,800 USDA delivery order issued August 2026 also in Pendleton. Award activity was sparse in 2023–2024 (2–3 awards per year) but increased to 6 awards in 2026 year-to-date; historical data extends to 2007. The vendor has obligated only $2.9 million against a combined potential value of $65.2 million across the footprint, indicating substantial remaining ceiling on standing agreements. The service scope centers on NAICS 541711 (Support Activities for Forestry) with secondary logging work, mapped to PSC natural resources and conservation codes for forest fire suppression, tree thinning, and land treatment.

We provide mastication, grapple piling, wildfire suppression, forest road cleanup, forest road culvert repair and reconstruction, small pond development and repair, forest debris cleanup and removal, forest road cattle guard replacement.