Long Ground Contracting, LLC

Long Ground Contracting, LLC, a small-business sole proprietorship headquartered in Bend, Oregon, provides faller services and ground transportation support for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, competing exclusively through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system across Regions 5 and 6 in the western United States.

Long Ground Contracting holds five multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center spanning faller services, vehicle and driver support, and ground contracting operations. Four contracts carry $250,000 ceilings with performance periods through June 2028 or May 2030; one carries a $750,000 ceiling through June 2028. All five IDCs are set-aside for total small business and issued firm fixed-price. The company has drawn 23 delivery orders from these vehicles totaling $2.2 million in potential value since June 2023, with orders ranging from approximately $2,500 to $43,000. Recent delivery orders include a $43,984 faller order for Wenatchee, Washington (July 31, 2026), a $37,485 order for Prineville, Oregon (July 22, 2026), a $35,985 order for Sandy, Oregon (August 10, 2026), and a $30,602 vehicle-and-driver order for Wenatchee (September 30, 2025).

Customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors five awards worth $1.8 million combined potential value; the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) places the volume — 15 awards totaling $355,000 across the three most active IDCs — while the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) has issued two orders worth $67,000. The company operates exclusively under VIPR vehicle-with-driver and faller I-BPAs; no subcontract footprint or teaming relationships appear in the source. Activity scaled from one award in 2023 to nine in 2024, dipped to four in 2025, and returned to nine in 2026 through August. Long Ground competes entirely full-and-open under total small business set-asides; no unrestricted competition appears in the award record. Primary NAICS coding centers on Support Activities for Forestry (17 awards) and All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (6 awards), with all 23 awards falling under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.