Wesley A Renne

Wesley A Renne, operating as Renne Cutting, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Lewiston, Idaho, supplies heavy equipment and certified faller services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside vehicles and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor competes entirely under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with all forty recent awards falling into the USDA Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system for wildland fire suppression, prescribed project work, and all-hazard incident response.

Renne Cutting's capability footprint is narrowly focused on equipment rental and operator services for forest management emergencies. The company supplies specialized heavy machinery including feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, excavators, and tractor plows, along with professionally certified fallers trained in forest management and fire suppression. Representative recent work includes a $435,072 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) in August 2025 for heavy equipment and personnel support in Kamiah, Idaho; a $665,992 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) in July 2026 against the VIPR I-BPA for heavy equipment task force services in Pendleton, Oregon; and a $124,950 delivery order from Region 1 in August 2025 for equipment and faller support also in Kamiah. Task orders are firm fixed-price and complete within weeks of issuance, enabling rapid emergency response mobilization.

Customer concentration is nearly absolute with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which accounts for 100% of combined potential value across five subordinate customers. The Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center dominates at seventeen awards worth $6.3 million in combined potential value, followed by Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) with ten awards worth $1.3 million, Region 1 (Northern) with eight awards worth $823 thousand, Region 4 (Intermountain) and Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) with two awards each. This customer concentration reflects Renne Cutting's positioning as a specialized emergency-response equipment supplier with no diversification outside Forest Service wildland fire operations.

Renne Cutting holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts under the VIPR system, all awarded between May 2024 and February 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center. These IDCs are structured as total small business set-aside awards with ceilings of $250,000 to $500,000 each and five-year periods of performance extending through 2029 and 2030. Specific vehicles include the VIPR I-BPA for Heavy Equipment Task Force (HETF) covering Regions 1 and 4 ($500,000 ceiling, awarded February 2026), Region 6 ($500,000 ceiling, awarded February 2026), Heavy Equipment with Water for Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 ($500,000 ceiling, awarded February 2026), Miscellaneous Heavy Equipment for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 ($250,000 ceiling, awarded May 2024), Faller services for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 (multiple $250,000 ceilings across awards from May 2024 through February 2026), Fallers for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 ($250,000 ceiling, awarded May 2025), and Chipper services for East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 ($250,000 ceiling, awarded April 2025). The top five IDVs by task-order volume show eight task orders under the $485 thousand miscellaneous heavy equipment contract, six task orders under a $251 thousand faller services vehicle, and three task orders under a $916 thousand contract. Eight of forty awards carry total small business set-aside designations; the remaining thirty-two delivery orders were issued without set-aside, indicating that while Renne Cutting holds set-aside IDCs, regional Forest Service dispatch centers frequently issue task orders on full-and-open basis when speed matters more than set-aside compliance.

Activity has grown from eight awards in 2024 to sixteen in 2025 and sixteen through August 2026, with combined potential value of $8.6 million and $2.4 million obligated to date (28% burn rate). Renne Cutting operates as a sole proprietor with no documented subcontract footprint and no parent-company relationships. The vendor category breakdown shows 37 awards (92.5%) under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC K007 (Natural Resources/Conservation – Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), with the remaining three awards under machinery rental. This narrow specialization makes Renne Cutting a tightly focused competitor in emergency forest management logistics with no foothold in broader federal contracting.