Summit Custom Builders, Llc.

Summit Custom Builders, LLC, doing business as Summit Trees, is a Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Rainsville, New Mexico, that operates as a sole proprietor delivering wildland fire suppression equipment, water handling services, and heavy equipment rental to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under small business set-asides. The vendor competes entirely within total small business designations across its federal footprint, with no subcontracting activity to date.

Summit Trees specializes in emergency response and fire suppression support through equipment and personnel mobilization across U.S. Forest Service Regions 3 (Southwestern) and 8 (South-Central). The company's capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment provision — dozers, excavators, tractor plows, and transport vehicles — miscellaneous heavy equipment including feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, and skidders, and water handling services for incident response and prescribed burn operations. All work is delivered firm fixed price with 16-hour daily shift capability aligned to dispatch center operational requirements. Representative awards include a $19.2 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 3 in July 2025 for heavy equipment services, a $7.2 thousand delivery order in August 2025 for miscellaneous equipment support, and a $7.3 thousand delivery order in March 2026 for additional incident response services.

Customer concentration is absolute: the National Interagency Fire Center (part of USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) accounts for six awards worth $1.5 million combined potential value across the portfolio. Forest Service Region 3 and the broader Forest Service organization account for the remaining three awards, valued at $33 thousand combined. The vendor holds six multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all valued at $250 thousand each and all set aside for total small business, through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement system. Three were awarded in 2023 and 2024 (heavy equipment, miscellaneous equipment, and water handling through May 2028 and April 2029), and three were re-awarded or revised on February 6, 2026 (extending coverage through April 2029 and May 2030). These contracts permit optional use by Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs cooperators. Activity has accelerated modestly — one award in 2023 and 2024, three in 2025, and four in 2026 — with all recent task orders drawn from the Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement vehicle structure. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $34 thousand, representing only 2 percent of combined potential value, indicating the contracts remain largely unexercised.