Peterson Machinery Co

Peterson Machinery Co, a Eugene, Oregon-based subsidiary of Peterson Holding Company (operating as Peterson Cat), supplies heavy equipment repair, maintenance, and rental services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on a full-and-open competitive basis, with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The company operates in commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance (NAICS 33361) and construction equipment rental (NAICS 532412), competing on firm fixed-price purchase orders with federal customers across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Peterson Machinery Co's customer base concentrates in regional civilian agencies. The top five funding customers account for 39 percent of awards by count but only 70 percent of combined potential value — a split driven by the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Federal Correctional Institution Sheridan, which dominates the dollar ranking with eight awards worth $603 thousand combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers' Portland District (16 awards, $459 thousand), the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon-Washington region (22 awards, $236 thousand), the Forest Service's R5-Pacific Southwest Region (13 awards, $168 thousand), and the National Park Service's Pacific West Region (3 awards, $125 thousand) round out the active set. The vendor works under five principal blanket purchase agreements, notably the BPA INLHEB070003 (14 task orders) and BPA INLHMB062009 (14 task orders, $6 thousand combined potential value), both issued by Interior Department agencies. Recent prime work includes a $111.5 thousand boiler rental for FCI Sheridan (November 2025, completion December 2026), a $124.6 thousand emergency chiller rental for the same facility (September 2025), and a $17.9 thousand mulcher rental for the Fish and Wildlife Service's William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon (September 2024). Peterson Machinery Co also subcontracts heavy equipment rentals and telehandler services to Environmental Quality Management Inc., delivering seven documented sub-awards between July 2024 and February 2026 for time-critical removal actions at the J.H. Baxter superfund site in Region 10.

Activity has been modest and volatile — five awards in 2021 declining to four in 2022, then rising to six in 2024 and twelve in 2025, before dropping to four in 2026 year-to-date. Four awards worth $339 thousand combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The vendor's 180-award portfolio spans eighteen distinct customer agencies, with combined potential value of $2.3 million and obligated dollars of $2.7 million (118 percent of potential value), indicating project overruns or revised scope. Award size is characteristically small — typically in the $10 thousand to $120 thousand range — reflecting the transactional, regional nature of equipment repair and emergency rental support to federal installations in the Pacific Northwest.