Peter Van Gaale & Sons Construction Inc.

Peter Van Gaale & Sons Construction Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Murrieta, California, provides construction services and heavy equipment operations for federal wildfire suppression and land management support to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor operating exclusively under small business set-asides.

The vendor's entire 18-award footprint serves a single customer group within USDA: the Forest Service, which accounts for 100% of awards across four distinct functional areas. The customer concentration by potential value reflects a heavy tilt toward the National Interagency Fire Center (3 awards, $1 million combined potential value) against dispersed regional work. The Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (R5) leads by award count (10 awards, $549 thousand combined potential value), while the Federal Fire and Aviation Management directorate and the Southwestern Region (R3) round out activity. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides; all awards in the recent portfolio carry that designation.

Capability work centers on heavy equipment procurement and operator services for wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Representative contracts include a $66,798.75 firm fixed price delivery order from the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region in August 2026 for construction services in Solvang, California; a $92,348.91 delivery order from the same region in September 2024 for construction work in Arcadia, California; and a $140,008.17 delivery order from the Forest Service Southwestern Region in May 2022 for construction services in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The vendor holds two indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) for heavy equipment and related services under the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500,000 multiple-award IDIQ awarded in February 2026 running through June 2028, and a $250,000 Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded in June 2023, also through June 2028. Both cover West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (California and New Mexico) and support emergency equipment procurement with dozers, excavators, and operator services. The vendor operates under NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression across all work.

Activity is minimal and sporadic—one award in 2021, four in 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2026—with combined potential value of $1.9 million and $600 thousand obligated. The vendor operates no subcontract footprint and no parent vehicles beyond the two Forest Service IDCs noted above. The five task orders under Blanket Purchase Agreement AG9J61B177174 and four under Indefinite Delivery Contract 129J6121T7158 represent the largest vehicle concentrations. No recompete cliff is signaled in the near term given the spread and small scale of awards.