ORY Excavating Service LLC

ORY Excavating Service LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Lacygne, Kansas, provides vegetation management, equipment rental, and wildfire fuel reduction services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under total small business set-asides. The firm operates as a limited liability partnership competing exclusively in reserved categories and has not held federal contract vehicles or IDVs as a primary instrument — instead, it sits as an awardee on multiple interagency and regional blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts issued by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the USDA Forest Service.

ORY Excavating Service LLC serves a narrow customer set dominated by wildfire management and land stewardship programs. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 accounts for 97% of combined potential value across the vendor's awards through a single $49.5 million National Fuels Reduction BPA (multiple-award, ceiling $49.5 million, ultimate completion March 31, 2029). The National Interagency Fire Center, acting for the USDA Forest Service, places four awards totaling $1.5 million in combined potential value for miscellaneous heavy equipment support, including feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, and excavators serving East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (three multiple-award IDIQs with ceilings of $500,000, $500,000, and $250,000, extending through May 2029 or June 2028). The Fish and Wildlife Service placed two smaller awards: a $235,500 purchase order (July 2023, completed September 2024) for vegetation removal and mastication at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, and a $59,745 purchase order (awarded September 14, 2026, completing April 1, 2027) for vegetation trimming and clearing at Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2026, with four awards issued in that year after one award in 2024 and two in 2023, reflecting ORY's expanding role in Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service fuels-reduction operations. Only one award ($59,745 potential value) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, minimizing near-term recompete pressure. The vendor's capability footprint centers on on-call heavy equipment provision for incident-based blanket purchase agreements across multiple Forest Service regions, vegetation management services (canopy clearing, mulching, brush removal, stump grinding), and wildfire fuel management. All seven awards are classified under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 561210) or closely related natural-resources categories, and seven of seven awards carry total small business set-asides. Real obligations to date total $295,000 against $51.3 million in combined potential value, reflecting the typical lag between vehicle establishment and incident-based task-order draws in interagency fire management contracting.