M.a.r. Contracting, LLC

M.a.r. Contracting, LLC, doing business as MR Contracting, is a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small business based in Independence, Oregon that delivers wildland firefighting crew services and all-hazard incident response support to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders against indefinite delivery contracts. The company operates 100% as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in recent federal work.

M.a.r. Contracting specializes in deploying 20-person Type 2 firefighter crews, wildland fire suppression, and natural resource program support across multiple Forest Service regions in the Pacific Northwest, Northern, Intermountain, and Southwestern United States. Work is performed at distributed locations including Sandy and Springfield, Oregon; Wenatchee and Ellensburg, Washington; Kamiah, Idaho; Yreka and Nevada City, California; and Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, with ultimate completion dates concentrated in the May 2026 window. Representative awards include a $357,600 delivery order for wildland fire and all-hazard incident response issued by Forest Service Region 6 on August 12, 2026 (total small business set-aside, completion July 1, 2027); a $249,180 delivery order under the National Interagency Fire Center's $97.5 million total small business set-aside multiple-award IDC for National Type 2 Firefighter Crews issued August 8, 2026; and a $235,724 delivery order (no set-aside) for similar services issued September 6, 2025.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service across regional and national offices. Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) dominates volume with 63 awards totaling $10.3 million in combined potential value; however, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service national office anchors the dollars with 8 awards carrying $98.4 million in combined potential value—a significant recompete exposure and divergence from award-count concentration. The five largest customer offices account for 98% of recent awards. M.a.r. Contracting places substantially all task orders under two parent indefinite delivery contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC21T2429 (86 task orders, $14.3 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract AG04H1B179732 (5 task orders, $535 thousand combined potential value). The vendor does not sit on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules.

Activity has grown sharply in recent years—from 17 awards in 2022 to 42 in 2024—but has declined to 11 awards in 2025 and 7 in 2026 year to date, signaling contraction or potential capacity constraints. Recompete exposure is material: 7 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $1.7 million in combined potential value, a relatively low recompete cliff compared to the $112.6 million total portfolio, but the concentration of dollars in the $98.4 million Forest Service national office tranche creates significant hidden recompete risk if that parent vehicle recompetes or is restructured. All 93 awards are categorized under NAICS Support Activities for Forestry and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, reflecting a narrow, specialized capability footprint. The vendor competes full-and-open on delivery orders rather than under set-asides, despite its minority and Hispanic American ownership designations, and does not engage subcontractors on federal work.