Smiths Maintenance Inc.

Smiths Maintenance Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in La Grande, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing heavy equipment rentals, facility maintenance, and fire suppression support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related civilian federal agencies. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation across all 29 recent prime awards, although two of its indefinite delivery contracts carry total small business set-aside language at the vehicle level.

Smiths Maintenance serves a highly concentrated customer base. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 24 of 29 awards (83% of the portfolio), split between the Pacific Northwest Region (16 awards, $701 thousand combined potential value) and the National Interagency Fire Center's Fire and Aviation Management mission (8 awards, $892 thousand), with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region representing the sole non-Forest Service customer (1 award, $59 thousand). The two rankings are near-identical, indicating stable customer concentration across both volume and dollars. Primary capability work centers on Type 2 dozer rentals for wildland fire response — multiple delivery orders from the National Interagency Fire Center in 2021 ranged from $9,300 to $24,800 — and facility maintenance and equipment rental services at Forest Service locations in Oregon and Washington, exemplified by a $95,210 delivery order from the Pacific Northwest Region in July 2024 and a $59,250 purchase order from the Idaho Region in June 2025 for a Type 2 dozer.

Smiths Maintenance holds two indefinite delivery contracts, both awarded to support heavy equipment procurement for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 under the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement system. The first, a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC 1204H120T7326) with the National Interagency Fire Center, carries a $250,000 ceiling through June 2028 and has generated 9 task orders totaling $241 thousand. The second, awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in June 2023, also carries a $250,000 ceiling through June 2028 and has issued 2 delivery orders totaling $111 thousand. The vendor also places work under multiple Forest Service blanket purchase agreements including AG04H1B147180 (4 task orders, $156 thousand) and AG04H1B117158 (2 task orders, $29 thousand). Activity is sparse and declining — one award in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in February 2026 — with $633 thousand in combined dollars obligated across the portfolio representing 37% of the $1.7 million combined potential value. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime and holds no subcontract relationships in the source data. All 29 awards fall under NAICS 115213 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 26 awards coded to the Natural Resources/Conservation forest-range fire suppression/presuppression PSC, reflecting narrow specialization in Forest Service wildland equipment and maintenance.