Rim Rock Equipment LLC

Rim Rock Equipment LLC, a sole proprietorship based in Gold Hill, Oregon, supplies equipment rentals for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burning, and land management operations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, holding approximately $17.5 million in combined potential value across 110 recent awards. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); it does not hold a designated SBA certification category but competes under total small business set-aside designations on Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) and indefinite delivery contracts issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Rim Rock Equipment's capability portfolio centers on fleet equipment rental—all-terrain vehicles, utility terrain vehicles, excavators, skidgines, sport utility vehicles, and mobile chainsaw repair service trailers—deployed across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, and 6 (California, Oregon, and Washington). Representative delivery orders include a $190,350 equipment rental order to Region 6 Pacific Northwest in July 2024, a $186,965 delivery order to Region 5 Pacific Southwest in September 2025, and a $168,000 equipment rental order to Region 6 in July 2024, all firm fixed-price task orders. The vendor also holds a flagship $7.5 million indefinite delivery contract for multipurpose utility vehicle (UTV) rentals awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in September 2022, running through December 2026, under which task orders have ranged from approximately $2,100 to $190,350. Recent 2026 awards include a $99,794 delivery order to Region 6 in August and an $88,200 order to the same region in August.

Customer concentration is heavy in Forest Service regional operations. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) accounts for 21 awards carrying $13.2 million in combined potential value, while Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest dominates by order volume with 72 awards totaling $3.6 million combined potential value. Together these two customer streams represent 97% of all awards. The portfolio also includes minimal work with Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest (8 awards, $522 thousand), Region 4 Intermountain (2 awards, $43 thousand), and the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (2 awards, $114 thousand).

Rim Rock's parent vehicles are nearly all VIPR I-BPA multiple-award contracts. The largest by task order count is IDC 1202RZ22T0115 (28 task orders, $321 thousand combined potential value), followed by four other active I-BPAs each carrying 4–8 task orders. These vehicles span equipment categories including off-highway vehicles, heavy equipment with water capabilities, miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders), mobile chainsaw repair trailers, and heavy equipment taskforce resources for Regions 3, 5, 6, and Region 8. All parent contracts are total small business set-asides competitively awarded through VIPR.

Activity has grown significantly, from 6 awards in 2022 to a peak of 24 in 2024, with 9 awards in 2025 and 12 in 2026, averaging roughly 14 awards per year over the past three years. Combined dollars obligated stand at $3.7 million (21% of potential value), indicating that the vendor is executing work selectively against a larger contract ceiling base. No recompete cliff data was supplied in the source, but the oldest parent vehicle (the $7.5 million UTV IDIQ) expires December 31, 2026, creating immediate recompete exposure on that anchor contract. Rim Rock holds no federal sub-award footprint and does not sub to larger defense or civilian primes; the company operates as a pure equipment lessor to civilian natural resource agencies.