Stephen Larry Allen Adams

Stephen Larry Allen Adams, doing business as Adams Construction, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Fortuna and Eureka, California, delivers heavy equipment rentals, water handling services, and wildland fire suppression support to the U.S. Forest Service exclusively as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly without set-aside designations on full-and-open delivery orders, though it holds several multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts under Total Small Business set-asides awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center.

Adams Construction's customer base is entirely concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Across 41 recent awards worth $55.4 million in combined potential value, the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounts for 31 awards and $52.5 million, representing 95% of the vendor's dollar exposure. The National Interagency Fire Center rounds out the customer set with 8 awards worth $2.8 million. This extreme concentration—100% of awards from a single agency—reflects the vendor's strategic positioning as a specialized provider of equipment and emergency-response services to regional Forest Service operations.

Adams Construction holds seven active Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for stewardship services on the Six Rivers National Forest through October 2032 (awarded October 2022); four multiple-award IDCs set aside for Total Small Business at the National Interagency Fire Center with $500,000 ceiling values each for water handling, heavy equipment, and miscellaneous equipment in West Zone Regions 5 and 6, all awarded February 2026 with performance periods through 2028–2030; and two earlier $250,000 multiple-award IDCs for water handling and heavy equipment from June 2022 and June 2023, running through June 2025 and June 2029 respectively. The largest recent vehicle by task-order volume is IDC 12569R23T7898, which generated 16 delivery orders worth $1.8 million combined. Delivery orders under these vehicles typically range from $3,300 to $418,266 and carry compressed performance timelines of four to ten days, reflecting operational urgency in fire suppression and resource management.

Recent representative work includes a $17,525.86 Total Small Business delivery order from the Forest Service issued July 8, 2026 for equipment or services supporting emergency response in Hoopa, California; a $418,266 firm fixed-price delivery order from Region 5 in July 2024 for forestry-related services and heavy equipment rentals in Eureka; and a $110,902.93 delivery order from Region 5 in July 2025 for forest management and wildland fire suppression support. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on Type 3 and 6 engines, water tenders (Types 1, 2, and 3), front-end loaders, dump trucks, dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, and trained personnel to staff equipment on daily shifts during wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response.

Activity has grown year over year from seven awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025, with four awards recorded through July 2026. Only $2.7 million of the $55.4 million combined potential value has been obligated to date (5%), indicating that most vehicle ceilings remain open for task-order drawdown. Adams Construction does not appear in the source as a subcontractor to other primes and holds no teaming relationships; the vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor to the Forest Service.

Adams Construction has provided construction services for over 23 years. We provide fire support services, hauling, dump truck services, brush clearing, and heavy equipment rental services.