Pitlik & Wick, Inc.

Pitlik & Wick, Inc., based in Eagle River, Wisconsin, operates as a prime contractor delivering gravel crushing, rock aggregate production, and infrastructure maintenance services to federal land management and transportation agencies, competing predominantly under small-business set-asides. The company is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and operates as a for-profit corporate entity, with a capability footprint centered on Construction Sand and Gravel Mining (NAICS 212321) and related road and bridge infrastructure support.

Pitlik & Wick's customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) accounts for 45 of 75 total awards (88% of award count coverage) and $15.5 million of the $17.9 million combined potential value, making the vendor operationally dependent on a single USDA Forest Service regional office. The next-largest customer by dollar value, the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, anchors only $990 thousand across a single award. The Forest Service R8 (Southern Region) carries two awards at $214 thousand, followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services at marginal volumes. This concentration reflects Pitlik & Wick's business model: repeated delivery orders against Forest Service IDIQs for gravel crushing at named pit sites in the Ottawa and Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests across Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Pitlik & Wick holds a position on five named Forest Service IDIQ vehicles. The largest by task-order count is Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R20D0005, which carries 11 task orders worth $1.2 million combined potential value; three additional IDIQs (AG569RC160007, AG569RC130027, and AG569RC100018) carry between 7 and 10 task orders each, totaling roughly $1.7 million across them. The vendor also holds a newly awarded single-award five-year IDIQ (awarded August 11, 2025, by Forest Service Region 9) with a $5,000 contract ceiling and an ultimate completion date of August 14, 2030, under which two recent 2026 delivery orders for $88,150 and $291,024 have been issued for gravel crushing at Watersmeet and Ironwood, Michigan.

Recent activity shows flat-to-declining trajectory. The vendor recorded three awards in 2022 and 2023 each, two in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — a downward trend inconsistent with the company's long operating history (first award in the source data dates to November 1990). Only $379 thousand in combined potential value reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Pitlik & Wick operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); no subcontract footprint appears in the source. Representative prime work includes a $291,024 Total Small Business delivery order (May 21, 2026) for gravel crushing at Ironwood under the Forest Service IDIQ, a $126,385 task order (August 24, 2023) for rock crushing at Coontail Pit in the Ottawa National Forest, and a $20,900 purchase order (September 6, 2023) from USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services for asphalt crack-sealing and sealcoating in Eagle River.