RJT Contracting Inc.

RJT Contracting Inc., a Salem, Oregon-based minority-owned small disadvantaged business, delivers wildland firefighting crews, forestry operations, and hazardous fuels reduction services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple regions. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its parent Indefinite Delivery Contracts, though many delivery orders against those vehicles carry no set-aside designation.

RJT's federal work centers on deploying trained 20-person Type 2 hand crews for wildland fire suppression, emergency response, and natural resource management. Concrete recent examples include a $334,602 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) for firefighting crews in Medford, Oregon (September 2025), a $291,421 delivery order from Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) for crews in Grass Valley, California (August 2025), and a $287,566 delivery order for nationwide firefighting support (August 2024). The company also provides forestry operations, trail maintenance, reforestation, and hazardous fuels reduction work, with individual delivery orders ranging from approximately $7,000 to $3.75 million.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Forest Service accounts for substantially all recent awards—34 delivery orders against the agency's generalist IDC umbrella combined with 97 regional delivery orders (38 in Region 6, 24 in Region 5, 17 in Region 1, 14 in Region 4, and smaller volumes in Region 2 and Region 3) represent 127 of 153 total awards. The remaining 26 awards are distributed across National Interagency Fire Center water handling and chipper equipment contracts. This concentration reflects RJT's specialization in a single customer's core mission rather than diversified federal exposure.

RJT holds a $165 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 1202SC22T2424) for National Type 2 Firefighter Crews awarded June 15, 2022, set aside for total small business and extended through July 1, 2027. That vehicle carries 134 task orders valued at $20.3 million combined potential value and anchors nearly all delivery order work. The company also holds three smaller VIPR I-BPA vehicles with the National Interagency Fire Center: a $250,000 chipper equipment IDC (awarded May 28, 2024, extended through May 28, 2029), a $250,000 water handling equipment IDC (awarded May 29, 2025, through May 29, 2030), and related vehicles for the same services with identical ceilings. Five delivery orders across these secondary vehicles total $527 thousand in combined potential value.

Activity has grown sharply. Awards increased from 3 in 2022 to 40 in 2024 and 49 in 2025, with 43 awards issued year-to-date through September 2026. However, the company faces significant recompete exposure: 34 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $5.2 million combined potential value, nearly all tied to the base period and first option period of the Type 2 Firefighter Crews IDC expiring May 10, 2026, with the ultimate completion date extended to July 1, 2027. Renewal of that $165 million vehicle or loss of position will drive the company's 2027 pipeline materially.

RJT operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards); there is no subcontractor footprint in the source. Place of performance spans Forest Service regions nationwide—Regions 1 through 6—with work performed across Oregon, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming. Obligated dollars represent only 11% of combined potential value across the portfolio, indicating significant work-in-progress and pending invoicing against the Type 2 Crews vehicle.