S & K Grading

S & K Grading, a for-profit small business based in Anza, California, operates as a prime contractor providing heavy equipment rental and grading services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, competing under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and issuing task orders for wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and land management activities. The company specializes in road grading and equipment operation — feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, dozers, excavators, and skidders — positioned to support emergency dispatch across Forest Service regions in California and the West Zone (Regions 3, 5, and 6).

All forty awards in the source represent prime contract work; S & K Grading holds no subcontract footprint. Customer concentration is absolute: 100% of awards fund Department of Agriculture Forest Service programs, split across four funding sub-entities. The National Interagency Fire Center leads by potential value ($2 million across 7 awards), while the Pacific Southwest Region (R5) dominates by award count (22 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value). Concrete recent work includes a $41,739 total-small-business delivery order from Forest Service's Los Angeles operations awarded July 13, 2026 for grading services in Los Angeles with completion July 19, 2026; a $111,283 no-set-aside delivery order from Region 5 for grading in Solvang, California awarded August 10, 2025; and a $146,482 delivery order from Region 5 awarded October 1, 2024 for land management grading with completion October 24, 2024.

S & K Grading holds four multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts as a prime, all set aside for total small business and issued by the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500,000 miscellaneous heavy equipment contract for Region 5 running through June 13, 2029 (awarded February 6, 2026); a $500,000 heavy equipment contract for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 running through June 11, 2028 (awarded February 6, 2026); a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for Region 5 running through June 13, 2029 (awarded June 13, 2024); and a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 running through June 11, 2028 (awarded June 11, 2023). Task orders under these vehicles have ranged from $20,000 to $146,000 and are allocated across five primary IDIQ vehicles, with the top four combined representing $1.2 million in task order potential value. Activity has remained modest — three awards in 2022, four in 2023, seven in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined potential value across all forty awards totaling $3.9 million and $1.4 million already obligated. All work is classified under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, reflecting a vertically concentrated positioning in wildfire-support heavy equipment rental for the federal forest service.