Outbackjack LLC

Outbackjack LLC, doing business as The Turd Herder, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Gunnison, Colorado that provides vault toilet pumping, septic tank maintenance, and waste disposal services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) across a concentrated portfolio of three customer agencies, with all seventeen awards spanning the past five years falling under NAICS 562991 (Septic Tank and Related Services).

The company's customer base divides cleanly between two Interior Department bureaus and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region accounts for 9 awards and $695 thousand in combined potential value; the Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region holds 7 awards and $342 thousand; and the Bureau of Reclamation represents 1 award. The top_customers lists indicate 100% portfolio concentration across these three agencies — no divergence between award-count and potential-value rankings. The Forest Service concentration reflects both a higher task-order volume and larger ceiling values on individual calls under the BPA vehicle.

Outbackjack operates from two primary Blanket Purchase Agreements with multi-year terms. The Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region BPA (1240LQ22A0002), awarded August 31, 2022, carries a $250 thousand ceiling through August 31, 2027 and has generated 4 task orders ($107 thousand combined potential value). The Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region BPA (140L2320A0001), similarly valued at $250 thousand and running through September 30, 2028, has yielded 3 task orders ($71 thousand combined). Representative work includes a $33,191 call from the Forest Service for vault toilet pumping and maintenance at Gunnison National Forest sites (completed May 2025), a $55,500 modification to the BLM BPA for toilet pumping services at the Gunnison Field Office's High Altitude Alpine Loop (completed September 2025), and a $120,852 Purchase Order from the Bureau of Reclamation awarded August 2026 for quarterly and biannual septic pumping and disposal at Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal Dam facilities in Montrose, Colorado, with option periods extending through August 2031.

Activity has remained modest and flat — three awards in 2022, two each in 2023 and 2024, one in 2025, two in 2026 — with combined potential value across all seventeen awards totaling $1 million and combined dollars obligated at $203 thousand (20% of ceiling). Only one award ($20 thousand combined potential value) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating limited near-term recompete exposure. Work performance concentrates in western Colorado, principally Gunnison, Montrose, and the Gunnison and Paonia Ranger Districts across the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests.