Summit Contracting LLC

Summit Contracting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Terreton, Idaho, provides heavy equipment services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and related federal land agencies as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides. The firm is structured as a limited liability company and specializes in equipment deployment—dozers, excavators, tractor plows, feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, and skidders—across multiple forest service regions under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement system administered by the National Interagency Fire Center.

Summit Contracting's customer base is concentrated within Department of Agriculture fire and emergency operations. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 8 awards carrying $3.3 million in combined potential value, while the Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) represents 10 awards worth $770 thousand combined potential value. Together, these two USDA Fire and Aviation Management entities account for the entirety of Summit Contracting's named contract work, with ancillary work including 2 awards from the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region ($97 thousand), 1 award from the Forest Service generic entity ($86 thousand), and 1 award flagged to the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration with no dollar magnitude disclosed. Award concentration by potential value mirrors the award-count ranking—the NIFC-sponsored IDCs dominate dollar volume.

Summit Contracting holds eight IDCs under the VIPR I-BPA system, all issued or reissued in 2025–2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center. The largest vehicles are a $750 thousand contract for miscellaneous heavy equipment in East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 (awarded February 6, 2026, expiring April 15, 2030) and four $500 thousand vehicles covering water handling equipment and heavy equipment services for East and West zones (awarded February 6, 2026, expiring between May 2030 and June 2028). Four additional $250 thousand I-BPAs awarded between April and June 2025 support equipment provision across regions. A subset of these IDCs carry extended performance periods through 2030. Against these vehicles, Summit Contracting has placed 13 delivery orders and purchase orders since June 2023, with individual order values ranging from $13,875 to $130 thousand, and 8 delivery orders drawn on the primary vehicle (1202SB23T7519, $649 thousand obligated across 8 task orders). Performance locations cluster across Utah (Monroe, Riverton, Price) and Idaho (Jackson, Boise, Shoshone, McCall), reflecting the geographic distribution of the covered forest service regions.

Activity shows growth trajectory, moving from 1 award in 2023 to 4 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 8 awards through August 2026. Combined potential value across all 22 awards totals $4.2 million, with $1.3 million (30%) obligated to date. Award category concentration is pronounced: 21 awards carry NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 19 classified under PSC code for natural resources/forest-range fire suppression and presuppression. The vendor holds a single subcontract role, performing financial assessments under Hayat Brown LLC as the prime on a September 2025 call order.