Lassen Equipment, Inc.

Lassen Equipment, Inc., doing business as Lassen Enterprises, provides heavy equipment rental, sales, and servicing for wildland fire suppression and forestry management operations to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides across multiple indefinite delivery contracts. The company is an SBA-certified HUBZone firm and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Corning, California, competing exclusively under set-aside vehicles.

All 39 awards in the recent footprint are prime delivery orders and IDIQs, with zero subcontract exposure. The vendor's customer concentration is complete within USDA Forest Service operations. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for nine awards with $4 million in combined potential value, anchored by three recently awarded IDIQs with ceilings of $500,000, $1 million, and $1 million, all dated February 6, 2026, and running through 2028–2030. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) drives the volume: 24 awards carrying $2 million in combined potential value, dominated by delivery orders placed against five smaller IDIQs with $250,000 ceilings each. The Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) and a fourth USDA Forest Service entity round out the customer set at 2 and 4 awards respectively.

Lassen Equipment's capability portfolio is narrow and specialized. The vendor supplies excavators, dozers, water tenders, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, and skidders on firm fixed-price rental and service agreements. Representative recent awards include a $77,040 delivery order to USDA Forest Service Region 5 on September 5, 2026, for heavy equipment rental in Solvang, California, under a total small business set-aside; a $65,160 delivery order to Region 6 on July 28, 2026, for equipment support in Baker City, Oregon; and a $154,528.72 delivery order to Region 5 on July 31, 2025, for equipment services in Eureka, California. Delivery orders cluster in the $12,000 to $205,990 range. Place of performance spans northern and central California (Corning, Clovis, Eureka, Solvang, Redding) and the Pacific Northwest (Pendleton, Baker City, Oregon).

Activity has grown from four awards in 2022 to ten in 2024, with nine orders in 2025 and seven in 2026 year-to-date. The vendor holds five named parent VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) IDIQs: contract 12569R23T7744 carries 14 task orders valued at $1.1 million; contract 129J6124T7193 carries 6 task orders at $400,000; contract 1202SB21T7906 carries 4 task orders at $344,000; contracts 1202SB22T7851 and 12569R25T7364 carry 2 task orders each. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $6.3 million, with $2.3 million obligated to date (36% realization). Lassen Equipment competes in NAICS 541713 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression across the entire award portfolio. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is material: several of the smaller $250,000 IDIQs expire through mid-2025, and the newer $500,000 and $1 million vehicles awarded in February 2026 do not mature until 2028–2030, positioning the vendor for sustained task-order flow but requiring continuous rebid activity on the expiring regional contracts.