Stewart Family Trust

Stewart Family Trust, doing business as Stewart Bros Land & Cattle, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that provides heavy equipment rentals and qualified operators for wildfire suppression and emergency response to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, exclusively operating under total small business set-asides. The company is a sole proprietorship based in Tulelake, California, with place of performance in Alturas, California, and operates across the Pacific Southwest and Western regions under NAICS Support Activities for Forestry and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.

All fourteen of Stewart Family Trust's recent federal awards are prime contracts delivered to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service; the vendor has no subcontract footprint. The Forest Service's Region 5 — Pacific Southwest Region accounts for 8 awards totaling $992 thousand in combined potential value, while the National Interagency Fire Center (also within USDA Forest Service) accounts for 3 awards totaling $750 thousand. Representative delivery orders include a $351,750 firm fixed-price delivery order (CAMDF000004 E7) awarded June 28, 2025, by Region 5 for heavy equipment and operators; a $319,925 delivery order (CAMDF000003 E22) awarded July 9, 2024, for dozers, excavators, and operators supporting wildfire suppression; and a $77,050 total small business set-aside delivery order (CAMDF000003 E1) awarded June 10, 2026, for heavy equipment and operators supporting wildfire suppression and emergency response.

Stewart Family Trust holds four parent IDV vehicles, all indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service. The largest is IDC 12569R23T7900, which generated 4 task orders worth $754 thousand in combined potential value through June 2028. A second multi-award IDC (AG9J61B147408) carries 2 task orders for $85 thousand. Both vehicles are structured as total small business set-asides and support heavy equipment provision for Regions 5 and 6 through 2028. Activity has remained modest and flat — two awards in 2024, one in 2025, two in 2026 — with combined potential value of $1.9 million across all fourteen awards and $893 thousand in combined obligated dollars (46% of potential value). The vendor's entire award footprint is concentrated within a single customer agency and a single capability domain, with no geographic diversification beyond California and no federal customer relationship outside the Forest Service.

Wildfire Suppression