Stellar Excavating, LLC

Stellar Excavating, LLC, doing business as Cragg's Excavating, is a small-business excavation and heavy-equipment contractor based in Stehekin, Washington that operates exclusively as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside purchase orders from federal land-management agencies. The company competes entirely within the small-business set-aside category across its federal footprint and holds no parent contract vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs.

Stellar's capability portfolio centers on site preparation, equipment rental with operator support, and specialized construction work in remote mountainous terrain. Representative work includes a $481 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Pacific West Region (awarded August 1, 2022, extended through January 27, 2026) for heavy equipment rental—including excavators, road graders, dump trucks, and front-end loaders—to support road repair, maintenance, hauling, grading, ditching, demolition, and utility projects at North Cascades National Park Complex in the Stehekin District; a $167 thousand purchase order from the U.S. Forest Service (awarded July 29, 2024) for construction equipment and services including excavators, road graders, dump trucks, and front-end loaders; and a $167 thousand small-business set-aside purchase order from NPS Pacific West Region (awarded September 20, 2023) for riverbank and road stabilization work along the Stehekin River to address erosion.

Customer concentration is narrow and geographically determined. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Pacific West Region accounts for four awards totaling $671 thousand in combined potential value (80% of the portfolio), with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service contributing one award of $167 thousand. All work to date has been performed in or around North Cascades National Park and adjacent Forest Service lands in Washington, reflecting Stellar's operational footprint and equipment base. The vendor has received five federal awards since August 2022 across two customer agencies, all as a prime contractor; no subcontract activity appears in the source. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $839 thousand, with $439 thousand obligated to date. Activity is sporadic rather than recurring—one award in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026—with no indication of pipeline expansion beyond the current regional customer base or of teaming relationships with larger federal contractors.