Owens Freight Lines Inc.

Owens Freight Lines Inc., a for-profit transportation and heavy equipment services company based in Prineville, Oregon, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering freight transportation and specialized equipment mobilization for wildland fire management, emergency response, and land management operations across western Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its indefinite delivery vehicle portfolio, though recent delivery orders include both set-aside and full-and-open designations.

Owens Freight Lines maintains a highly concentrated customer base anchored to two federal entities. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) accounts for 115 awards worth $5.4 million combined potential value, and the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 36 awards worth $4.3 million — together representing 74% of the vendor's award count and 82% of its combined potential value. The remaining 18% of awards split across the Forest Service generally, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, and smaller Forest Service offices. Activity has remained steady, ranging from six to fifteen awards per year over the past five years, with 2024 marking the peak at fifteen awards and recent 2026 activity at twelve awards through September.

Owens Freight Lines holds seven active indefinite delivery contracts carrying $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings each, all issued by the National Interagency Fire Center under total small business set-asides: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H120T7224 (31 task orders, $1.4 million combined potential value) for heavy equipment in West Zone Regions 5 and 6; Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H118T5009 (24 task orders, $509 thousand combined potential value) for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 6 only; Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7821 (18 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value) for refrigerated trailers across Regions 1–6 and 8–9; and four additional vehicles supporting similar equipment and logistics services through June 2030. Recent representative delivery orders include a $68,900 September 2026 award from the Forest Service for freight transportation and heavy equipment delivery to Fossil, Oregon; a $61,559 July 2026 award from Forest Service Region 2 for freight services to Laramie, Wyoming; and a $894,108 August 2022 purchase order from Region 6 for Type 1 and Type 3 excavators and Type 1 dozers to Cedar Creek and Potter, Oregon. Work performed spans Prineville and Fossil, Oregon; Lakeview, Oregon; Boise, Idaho; Laramie, Wyoming; and subordinate Forest Service locations across Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and the western United States. The vendor's capability portfolio concentrates on Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 excavator transport; dozer and road grader delivery; refrigerated trailer provisioning for fire suppression; and general freight mobilization through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Place of performance is distributed across dispatch centers and incident locations across the eight-region footprint. NAICS concentration reflects Support Activities for Forestry (140 awards) and General Freight Trucking Long-Distance Truckload and Specialized Freight Trucking Local (31 awards each); PSC concentration reflects Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (155 awards) and Transportation/Travel/Relocation Transportation Other (25 awards). The vendor has maintained federal contracting relationships since at least 2003 and operates no subcontract footprint — all 203 awards in the source data are prime contracts.