R D Sutherland Construction, LLC

R D Sutherland Construction, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Nucla, Colorado, provides heavy equipment deployment and construction services for wildland fire suppression, emergency response, and forest management to the USDA Forest Service and the Department of Interior as a prime contractor exclusively (100% of recent awards). The company operates as a limited liability partnership specializing in rapid mobilization of front-end loaders, dump trucks, dozers, excavators, water handling equipment, refrigerated trailers, and related machinery across multiple federal regions under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system framework.

R D Sutherland's customer concentration is overwhelmingly centered on Forest Service fire and land management operations. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 14 awards valued at $4.8 million combined potential value, representing 75% of the portfolio's dollar value, with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) following at 26 awards worth $917 thousand. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region holds six awards valued at $220 thousand, and Forest Service Regions 3, 4, and 8 account for the remainder — a 94% concentration across the top five customer entities. The two rankings show substantial divergence: Region 2 leads by award count but Region 2 awards are individually smaller, while the National Interagency Fire Center dominates by potential value through standing IDIQs with $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings.

R D Sutherland holds a portfolio of standing VIPR contracts — fourteen indefinite delivery vehicles with firm fixed-price, Total Small Business set-asides — ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 each, covering water handling, refrigerated trailers, heavy equipment, and miscellaneous machinery across Forest Service Regions 1 through 9 with performance periods extending through 2028 to 2030. Task orders drawn against these vehicles constitute the majority of recent work. The top five parent vehicles generate $1.1 million in combined potential value: the Water Handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 IDC (11 task orders, $621 thousand), the Refrigerated Trailer for Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 IDC (8 task orders, $189 thousand), and three additional heavy-equipment and miscellaneous-equipment contracts with smaller aggregate values. Representative task orders include a $126.5 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) in April 2026 for equipment deployment, a $98.4 thousand order from Region 2 in June 2026 for heavy equipment support, and a $71 thousand order from Region 4 (Intermountain) in September 2024 for construction services.

Award activity has grown significantly — four awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2024 and fifteen in 2025, with fourteen recorded in the first two months of 2026. The vendor competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides across its VIPR portfolio; standalone delivery orders occasionally lack explicit set-aside designation but the underlying IDC vehicle carries the set-aside. Combined potential value across the 54-award footprint stands at $6.4 million, with $1.6 million obligated to date (25% drawdown), indicating substantial unexercised capacity on the standing vehicles. NAICS concentration runs to Support Activities for Forestry (37 awards) and Specialized Freight Trucking (16 awards); PSC concentration is Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression (47 awards) and Fire Fighting Equipment (6 awards). The company operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and maintains no parent contract relationships outside the VIPR system.

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