SS Welding & Cattle LLC

SS Welding & Cattle LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business structured as a sole proprietorship, provides mechanic services with service trucks and welding support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), operating exclusively in full-and-open competition with no set-aside reserve designations applied to individual delivery orders.

SS Welding & Cattle LLC's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management division at the National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollars: two awards (the primary IDC vehicle and related delivery orders) carry $500 thousand in combined potential value. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (R6) accounts for three awards worth $95 thousand combined potential value, while the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region holds two awards for $48 thousand combined potential value. The vendor serves three distinct customer agencies across its seven total prime awards. The two rankings align — USDA Forest Service dominates both volume and dollar concentration — with the National Interagency Fire Center IDC representing the single largest contract vehicle.

Capability work centers on wildland-fire incident response and heavy equipment maintenance. The vendor holds two Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Forest Service, each valued at $250 thousand over three to five years and set aside for small business competition, to provide mechanic services with service trucks for wildland fire and all-hazard incident response in Forest Service Regions 5 and 6. Delivery orders issued against this vehicle totaled $95 thousand since 2023. Representative work includes a $36 thousand delivery order from the Pacific Northwest Region in August 2023 for welding and cattle-related services in Springfield, Oregon, a $22.5 thousand delivery order from the same region in August 2024 for welding and cattle services in Prineville, Oregon, and two $36 thousand purchase orders from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region in June 2025 for service-truck mechanic support in Boise, Idaho. All work carries firm fixed-price terms, with performance concentrated in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions.

Award activity remains sparse — one award in 2021, three in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025 — with total combined potential value of $643 thousand across seven prime contracts, of which only $143 thousand (22%) has been obligated to date. The vendor operates no subcontractors and holds no position on government-wide acquisition vehicles or multi-agency IDIQs beyond its regional Forest Service and BLM contracts.