Price Contracting Inc.

Price Contracting Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Stevensville, Montana, delivers road and bridge infrastructure construction, maintenance, and emergency response services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of 344 recent awards) across Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center, with no sub-award activity in the source data.

Price Contracting's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R1-Northern Region alone accounts for 198 awards totaling $244.5 million combined potential value—66% of the company's award portfolio by count and 66% by dollar value. The Forest Service R4-Intermountain Region contributes 27 awards worth $19.8 million. The Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, despite only six awards, carries $71.5 million combined potential value, driven by large single contracts. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission appears on 21 awards, but the source provides no dollar value, suggesting these may be administrative or non-procurement interactions. The Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 13 awards worth $3.3 million across Virtual Incident Procurement vehicles for emergency response equipment.

Price Contracting's core capabilities span road construction, reconstruction, and resurfacing (native surface, gravel, and paved); bridge and culvert replacement and repair; drainage improvements and best management practice upgrades; recreational site enhancements; and heavy equipment task force provision for fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Representative work includes a $3.78 million definitive contract awarded September 2025 for roadway reconditioning, pit development, and aggregate surface course installation on Forest Service Road 101 in the Salmon-Challis National Forest; a $2.09 million delivery order for Red Lodge Area Bridge Replacements and Road Repairs under the Northern Region MATOC; and a $1.625 million delivery order for FLTP Copper Creek Road Improvements on the Lewis & Clark National Forest with completion targeted for October 2026.

The vendor holds eleven active parent vehicles totaling more than $171.5 million in combined ceiling value. The two largest are the Forest Service Northern Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction Services MATOC ($50 million ceiling, awarded December 2024, set aside for total small business, 11 task orders totaling $6.7 million) and the Forest Service Intermountain Region 4 Road and Bridge Construction Services MATOC ($50 million ceiling, awarded May 2025, total small business set-aside, multiple delivery orders across regions). Price Contracting also holds a $50 million Forest Service Region 1–Region 4 Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance Blanket Purchase Agreement (no set-aside, awarded October 2023, active through August 2033) and a $20 million Region 1 Road Maintenance and Forest Maintenance/Support Services single-award IDC (total small business set-aside, awarded September 2025). Five Virtual Incident Procurement Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements with the National Interagency Fire Center, each with a $250 thousand ceiling and set aside for total small business, procure heavy equipment task forces, fuel tenders, dozers, excavators, and miscellaneous heavy equipment for fire suppression across East Zone regions.

Activity has been steady at 17–24 awards per year over the past five years, with no sharp upward or downward trend. Twenty-four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $17.6 million in combined potential value, creating recompete exposure across the Northern and Intermountain region contract vehicles and emergency response agreements. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count include IDC 12034319D0028 (47 task orders, $20.3 million), IDC AG0343C140001 (27 task orders, $4.2 million), IDC AG03R6C090024 (25 task orders, $5.1 million), and IDC 1284M820D0019 (20 task orders, $13.1 million).

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing across the FY2022–FY2024 period totaled $15.8 million (prime contracts only, above the $150 thousand reporting threshold). FY2024 invoiced $7.0 million across 4.8 FTEs, FY2023 invoiced $5.2 million across 5.0 FTEs, and FY2022 invoiced $3.6 million across 3.1 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran a median of approximately $359/hr, with 10th percentile rates around $177/hr and 90th percentile rates reaching $1,268/hr, reflecting a mix of labor categories from site supervisors and equipment operators to project management. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 7% of total contractor hours; the vendor named seven subcontractors across the portfolio but primarily executes work with in-house crews. Price Contracting competes predominantly under total small business set-asides (the vast majority of awards carry that designation), with some full-and-open awards on the $50 million Forest Service Engineering and Road Maintenance BPA and emergency response vehicles.

The company's award history spans road system work across western national forests—highway, street, and bridge construction (225 awards) and support activities for forestry (78 awards) dominate the NAICS profile—with funding sources including the Great American Outdoors Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and disaster supplemental appropriations. Price Contracting has been registered in SAM since February 2003, positioning it as an established regional contractor for federal infrastructure stewardship across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, and 6.

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