Smoky Mountain Excavating LLC

Smoky Mountain Excavating LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Blackfoot, Idaho, provides excavation services and heavy equipment deployment to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor operating exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company is a for-profit limited liability company that competes entirely within set-aside vehicles, with 100% of its recent awards (51 total) designated as small business set-asides. All work flows through the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.

Smoky Mountain Excavating specializes in deploying dozers, excavators, tractor plows, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, and skidders to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and natural resource management across western Forest Service regions. Concrete representative work includes a $278,650 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) in July 2024 for excavation services and heavy equipment in the Pacific Northwest; a $180,256 delivery order from Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) in August 2023 for excavation support in Eureka, California; and a $102,900 delivery order from Region 5 in July 2024 for excavation services and equipment. The company also received recent task orders in August 2026 from Region 4 (Intermountain) valued at $62,400 and $72,200 under total small business set-asides, and a $72,382 delivery order from Region 6 in August 2026, all for excavation services and heavy equipment supporting Forest Service land management and emergency response operations.

Customer concentration is tightly anchored to Forest Service regional operations. The top five buying entities account for 98% of awards and 99% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) leads on dollars with 12 awards worth $4.5 million combined potential value. Regions 5 (Pacific Southwest) and 6 (Pacific Northwest) follow with 13 awards ($916 thousand) and 9 awards ($890 thousand) respectively. Region 4 (Intermountain) places the highest volume at 14 awards but carries $709 thousand in combined potential value, and Region 3 (Southwestern) rounds out the set with 2 awards worth $109 thousand. All customer activity routes through Forest Service entities.

Smoky Mountain Excavating holds a portfolio of firm fixed-price indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) issued by the National Interagency Fire Center through the Virtual Incident Procurement system covering geographic zones across Forest Service Regions 1-9. Recent awards include six $500,000 IDCs issued February 6, 2026, covering Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 through 2028–2029, plus seven $250,000 IDCs awarded between June 2023 and June 2024 also covering multiple regions and expiring through 2029. These IDCs serve as blanket purchase agreements enabling rapid task order deployment. The five largest parent vehicles carry 35 combined task orders: IDC 12569R23T7892 accounts for 14 task orders worth $935 thousand; IDC 1202SB23T7507 carries 7 task orders ($307 thousand); IDC 1202SB24T7353 holds 7 task orders ($363 thousand); IDC 1204H124T7286 generated 4 task orders ($609 thousand); and IDC 129J6124T7255 produced 3 task orders ($245 thousand).

Activity has grown from 7 awards in 2023 to 24 in 2024, then moderated to 8 in 2025 and 12 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 51 awards stands at $7.2 million, with $2.7 million (38%) obligated to date. The vendor operates under a single NAICS code (Support Activities for Forestry) and a single PSC code (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), reflecting complete specialization in Forest Service equipment and excavation support. Smoky Mountain Excavating carries no sub-award activity—all work is executed as a direct prime contractor.