ROY Sermon

ROY Sermon, doing business as Sermon Farms, a sole proprietorship based in Howe, Idaho, supplies specialized heavy equipment and field support services for wildfire suppression, prevention, and land management operations to the USDA Forest Service and related federal agencies entirely as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor competes 100% under small-business set-asides, with all 40 awards in the source reflecting total small business designations on either delivery orders or indefinite delivery contracts.

Sermon Farms' capability portfolio centers on provision of heavy equipment and operator support for incident response and forestry management. Equipment types include excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders, dozers, and potable water/gray water trailers mounted on trucks with handwashing stations. Representative prime delivery orders include a $166,600 firm fixed-price order from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) awarded August 26, 2024, for wildfire prevention and recovery services; a $126,000 order from the same region dated September 4, 2024, for similar forestry management work; and a $96,050 order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) dated September 20, 2023. The vendor holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 ceiling values through the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service, awarded between June 2023 and July 2026, running through 2028–2029. Recent activity shows delivery orders issued within weeks of IDC award, indicating rapid task-order execution against these vehicles.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the USDA Forest Service and its fire-suppression mission. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 12 awards and $2.9 million in combined potential value (62% of the total), while Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) supplies 14 awards worth $965 thousand. Together, these two entities represent 85% of award count and 93% of combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, Forest Service Regions 2, 3, and 5, and other Forest Service regional offices make up the remaining volume. Sermon Farms also received one purchase order with no set-aside designation from the Forest Service Idaho Region in 2025 for a Type 2 excavator ($92,220), indicating some non-set-aside activity alongside the primary set-aside posture.

Vehicle positioning is concentrated on Forest Service and NIFC indefinite delivery contracts. The five top parent vehicles—all IDCs bearing total small business set-asides—generated 27 of the 40 awards. Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB24T7347 carries 11 task orders and $907 thousand in combined potential value; IDC 1202SB21T7263 holds six task orders and $468 thousand; IDC 1284M820T7180 carries five task orders and $236 thousand. The remaining two high-volume vehicles each generated four or fewer orders. All task orders under these vehicles are firm fixed-price delivery orders with completion dates typically 10 to 45 days from award.

Activity has grown significantly in the past two years. Awards per year ranged from three in 2023 to eleven in 2026 year-to-date, with 2024 showing 10 awards and 2025 showing five. The combined potential value across all 40 awards is $4.7 million, with $2 million obligated to date (42% execution rate). No recompete cliff is explicitly present in the source, but the vendor's multiple IDC awards running through 2028–2029 suggest sustained pipeline if task orders continue. Sermon Farms operates exclusively as a prime contractor—no subcontract work appears in the source—and has no recorded federal grant activity. The vendor's footprint is geographically concentrated in western states (Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado) where Forest Service regional operations and fire seasons create consistent demand for heavy equipment mobilization.