NW Diesel Dudes LLC

NW Diesel Dudes LLC, doing business as Diesel Dudes, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business providing water handling equipment and heavy apparatus deployment for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. Based in Naches, Washington, the company is structured as a for-profit limited liability company with veteran and service-disabled veteran ownership designations.

Diesel Dudes operates exclusively within NAICS 335611 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC 6420 (Natural Resources and Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression and Presuppression), delivering fire apparatus including Type 3–6 engines, Support Water Tenders (Type 1–3), and Tactical Water Tenders (Type 1–2), along with trained personnel and logistical support for emergency incident response across western U.S. Forest Service regions. Representative delivery orders include an $87,675 Total Small Business set-aside from the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region (awarded July 20, 2026, place of performance Pendleton, Oregon) for heavy equipment with water resources and water handling support; a $137,034 full-and-open delivery order from the Forest Service (awarded July 6, 2024) for fire apparatus and personnel deployment in the western region; and a $45,656 full-and-open delivery order from the Forest Service Region 6 (awarded September 14, 2025, place of performance Colville, Washington) for water handling and heavy equipment emergency response services.

Customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Agriculture forest management portfolio. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for six awards carrying $2 million in combined potential value; the Forest Service (unspecified regional attribution) accounts for three awards totaling $285 thousand; and Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for seven awards with $266 thousand combined potential value. All sixteen awards in the source are prime contracts—100% prime footprint with no subcontract activity.

Diesel Dudes holds five active indefinite-delivery contracts with the Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center. The largest are two multiple-award IDCs awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500 thousand Total Small Business set-aside for West Zone heavy equipment with water in Regions 3, 5, and 6 (performance through June 2, 2030) and a $500 thousand Total Small Business set-aside for water handling in Region 6 (performance through May 29, 2030). Two IDCs awarded in 2025 ($250 thousand each for heavy equipment with water across Regions 3, 5, and 6, and for water handling in Region 6) continue through May and June 2030. An earlier $250 thousand water-handling IDC awarded June 7, 2022, by the National Interagency Fire Center for Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 expired June 6, 2025. Task orders against these IDVs carried $232 thousand combined potential value under the 2022 water-handling IDC, $136 thousand under a 2024 heavy-equipment IDC, and $85 thousand under a 2025 water-handling IDC. Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to six in 2026, with sixteen total awards carrying $2.6 million combined potential value and $551 thousand obligated to date (22% of ceiling). The vendor competes in both Total Small Business set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders, with roughly even split between set-aside and open bidding visible in recent awards.