Ruff Country Fencing LLC

Ruff Country Fencing LLC, a veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Big Sandy, Montana, provides fencing construction, removal, and modification services to federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The company operates as a sole proprietorship and limited liability company structured for federal contracting in NAICS 238990 (All Other Specialty Trade Contractors), delivering range fence, boundary fence, riparian exclosure, and wind fence work on public lands and wildlife refuges across the Mountain West and Northern Great Plains.

Ruff Country Fencing's customer base is concentrated among Department of the Interior agencies. The top five customer agencies account for 86% of recent awards by count and 91% of combined potential value. The Bureau of Land Management Utah Region leads by both volume and dollars (five awards, $550 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 (four awards, $433 thousand), the BLM Montana-Dakotas region (four awards, $278 thousand), and the Forest Service Northern Region (four awards, $174 thousand). Representative work includes a July 2026 firm fixed-price purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service for $107,122 to construct 1.6 miles of new four-strand fence, remove and replace 1.8 miles of existing fence, and modify 2 miles of existing fence at the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Bobcat Creek Habitat Management Unit near Fort Peck, Montana (completion June 30, 2027); a September 2023 definitive contract from BLM Utah Region for $321,700 to construct approximately 10 miles of sand and wind fencing at the Lucin Burned Area Rehabilitation site in Box Elder County, Utah; and a September 2023 definitive contract from the Forest Service Northern Region for $81,910 to reconstruct the Jenkins Gulch Fence on the Townsend Ranger District of the Helena National Forest in Montana.

Award activity has been modest and steady — one award in 2021, three in 2022, four each in 2023 and 2024 — with 22 prime contracts totaling $1.8 million in combined potential value and zero subcontract exposure. All dollars obligated match combined potential value, indicating completion-stage work. Only one award (the July 2026 Fish and Wildlife Service Bobcat Creek project valued at $107 thousand) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore represents recompete exposure. Work is performed across dispersed locations in Montana, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming under Davis-Bacon wage-rate applicability, with all recent contracts structured as firm fixed-price purchase orders or definitive contracts with performance periods between 45 and 90 calendar days.

Company is a general contractor specializing in excavation, commercial construction, agricultural fencing and heavy equipment operation.