Rough Riders Corporation

Rough Riders Corporation, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Worland, Wyoming, provides ground transportation and vehicle-with-driver services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a small business prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Rough Riders operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint, delivering transit and ground passenger transportation—vehicle rentals with drivers, pickup and stakeside truck services, horse packing trips, and emergency response logistics—to support forest management, fire suppression, wildland incident response, and field operations across western Forest Service regions. The company holds six indefinite-delivery vehicle contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, each valued at $250,000 and designated as total small business set-asides. Recent representative awards include $82,774.98 and $39,482 delivery orders from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) for transit and ground passenger transportation under VIPR, a $19,400 total small business set-aside purchase order from the Rocky Mountain Research Station for Wyoming horse packing trips, and thirteen smaller delivery orders from Forest Service Regions 1 through 4 and the Southwestern Region (Region 3) ranging from $4,500 to $35,623 for vehicle-with-driver services across Nevada, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, and New Mexico.

Customer concentration is heavily Forest Service-centric. The top five funding entities account for 89% of recent awards by count, anchored by Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) with 38 awards totaling $751 thousand combined potential value, followed by Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) with 19 awards ($251 thousand), the National Interagency Fire Center with 11 awards ($2 million combined potential value), the Rocky Mountain Research Station with 11 awards ($249 thousand), and Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) with 6 awards ($363 thousand). The National Interagency Fire Center dominates potential-value concentration at $2 million across 11 awards—primarily the six IDVs themselves—while Region 4 drives volume through frequent small task orders. The combined potential value across all 96 prime awards is $3.8 million, with $1.7 million obligated as of the source date.

Rough Riders holds six VIPR indefinite-delivery contracts: four $250,000 IDVs awarded between February 2026 and August 2026 for vehicle-with-driver services in Regions 1, 3, 4, and the East Zone (Regions 3 and 8), running through 2028–2031; one $250,000 IDV from May 2023 expiring May 25, 2028 for Region 4 vehicle with driver; and one additional $250,000 IDV for Region 3 awarded April 4, 2024 and expiring April 4, 2029. Across the top parent vehicles, Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB23T7281 has generated 33 task orders totaling $761 thousand in combined potential value, IDC 1284M820T7084 has produced 24 task orders ($222 thousand), and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG84M8B177078 has yielded 9 task orders ($80 thousand).

Activity has fluctuated year over year—22 awards in 2022, declining to 8 in 2023, then recovering to 14 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 18 through August 2026. The vendor's award portfolio is dominated by NAICS 485999 (All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; 80 awards) and PSC Z152 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression; 86 awards), with secondary work under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry; 13 awards) and vehicle-rental NAICS categories (3 awards). Rough Riders competes exclusively under total small business set-asides; the source records no full-and-open or other set-aside-category awards, and all IDVs and delivery orders carry either "Total Small Business" or are issued under VIPR's small business structure.

Truck with Driver support services for Fire or other.

Currently operating other business in emergency response hotshot trucking and dispatching