Rusty Rangers LLC

Rusty Rangers LLC, a for-profit small business based in Talent, Oregon, provides wildland fire management services — direct firefighting, equipment deployment, water handling, and emergency incident response — exclusively as a prime contractor to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service under total small business set-aside IDIQs and delivery orders. The vendor competes entirely within federal set-asides; all 48 recent awards carry small business set-aside designations on the underlying vehicles.

Rusty Rangers operates as a singular operational footprint: it holds no subcontracting relationships and performs all work directly with deployed personnel, heavy equipment (feller bunchers, dozers, excavators, water tenders), and mobile service trucks across Regions 3, 5, and 6 (Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest) and supporting regions. Award activity has grown consistently from one award in 2022 to fourteen in both 2025 and 2026, with 48 total prime awards carrying combined potential value of $8.6 million. Only $1.3 million has been obligated to date (16% of ceiling), reflecting the structure of indefinite delivery contracts that establish pricing frameworks without requiring immediate fund commitment. The vendor faces no recompete cliff in the traditional sense; instead, its entire business model rests on annual review and potential resource-roster renewal by the USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management Regional Program Office through 2030.

The customer concentration is absolute. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) — the contracting entity for the Forest Service's fire management mission — anchors the portfolio with 19 awards valued at $7.3 million in combined potential value, all indefinite delivery vehicles with $250,000 to $1 million individual ceilings awarded in February 2026 and renewed throughout 2025. These IDCs cover heavy equipment with water handling (Regions 3, 5, 6), water handling only (Regions 5, 6), heavy equipment task forces (Region 6), mechanic services with service trucks (Regions 3, 5–6), and miscellaneous heavy equipment (Regions 5, 6). Regional Forest Service offices — Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) with 16 awards at $729 thousand and Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) with 9 awards at $489 thousand — issue task orders against these vehicles. A single award from the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region ($30 thousand) represents the only non-Forest-Service customer. Categorization by NAICS code shows 44 awards under Support Activities for Forestry and 4 under General Automotive Repair; 47 awards carry the PSC for Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.

Place of performance spans California, Oregon, and Washington, with Pendleton, Bend, Sandy, Springfield (Oregon), and Redding (California) as named incident locations. Rusty Rangers registers in SAM and holds no parent vehicle positions beyond its own NIFC-awarded IDCs. Delivery order values range from $6,980 to $150,626, reflecting task-based deployment during peak fire seasons and emergency incident response. The vendor's entire federal footprint is set-aside and single-customer concentrated; competitive dynamics center on Forest Service annual reviews, regional dispatch center proximity requirements, and resource availability during peak seasons rather than open-market federal bidding.