Southwest Equipment Transportation Inc.

Southwest Equipment Transportation Inc., a for-profit small business based in Flagstaff, Arizona, provides heavy equipment transportation and logistics services exclusively to the federal government as a prime contractor, with 100 percent of its recent awards issued without subcontractors. The vendor specializes in mobilizing and transporting specialized wildland firefighting and forestry equipment—dozers, excavators, chippers, road graders, skidders, feller bunchers, and masticators—in support of fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and resource conservation across western U.S. forest regions. Southwest Equipment Transportation operates under primary NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC R499 (Miscellaneous Heavy Construction Equipment Rental), and competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery vehicles and blanket purchase agreements within the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Customer concentration is extreme and intentional. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3 Southwestern Region alone accounts for 77 awards and $5.2 million of the vendor's $11.4 million combined potential value across 129 awards. The National Interagency Fire Center drives a second customer leg with 20 awards valued at $4.5 million, together representing 94 percent of award count and 96 percent of combined potential value. The remaining customer agencies—Forest Service Regions 2 (Rocky Mountain), 4 (Intermountain), and 5 (Pacific Southwest)—together account for 19 awards and roughly $1 million. This concentration reflects the vendor's deliberate specialization: all 129 awards in the source data are delivery orders or indefinite delivery contracts issued by Forest Service entities or the National Interagency Fire Center for emergency and non-emergency equipment mobility operations.

Southwest Equipment Transportation holds multiple indefinite delivery vehicles under the VIPR system, each carrying a $250,000 to $500,000 ceiling and a total small business set-aside. Five parent vehicles—Indefinite Delivery Contract AG8371B177049, 12837121T7008, Blanket Purchase Agreement AG8371B167039, and two smaller IDCs—collectively anchor 66 task orders valued at $2.8 million. Representative delivery orders across these vehicles include a $136,450.65 order from Forest Service R3 on August 14, 2026, for heavy equipment transportation with ultimate completion September 7, 2026; a $220,654.81 order from R5 Pacific Southwest Region on September 1, 2023, for equipment transportation from Eureka, California; and a $75,078 order from R4 Intermountain Region on June 23, 2026, for fire suppression equipment logistics with completion September 11, 2026. Orders typically range from $4,000 to $220,000 and span single-day mobilizations to multi-week engagements across Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Utah.

Award activity has been cyclical. The vendor logged 16 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 15 in 2026 through mid-August, tracking the intensity and geography of wildland fire seasons. Most recent activity clusters in May and June 2026, suggesting reactivation during the peak fire-response window. The source carries delivery orders dating back to 2014, indicating long-term USDA Forest Service relationship. Southwest Equipment Transportation operates exclusively as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price delivery orders with no recorded subcontract relationships, reflecting the vendor's direct-service model for time-sensitive incident response procurement.