Top Rail, LLC

Top Rail, LLC, doing business as Top Rail Construction LLC, a women-owned small business certified by the SBA, provides heavy equipment rentals, excavation services, and personnel support exclusively to federal natural resource agencies for wildland fire suppression and emergency incident response as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company is based in Naches, Washington, structured as a for-profit limited liability partnership, and does not subcontract.

Top Rail's customer concentration is highly specialized and geographically focused. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates its portfolio across two customer segments: the Pacific Northwest Region (31 awards, $1.7 million combined potential value) and the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (9 awards, $2.6 million combined potential value), accounting for 40 of the 48 total awards. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region placed 4 awards ($210 thousand combined potential value). These five agencies collectively represent 100% of Top Rail's tracked awards. The National Interagency Fire Center drives the highest dollar concentration despite fewer award placements than the Pacific Northwest Region, reflecting larger contract vehicle ceilings.

Top Rail holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, all awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center under total small business set-asides with ceilings ranging from $250 thousand to $500 thousand and performance periods extending through 2028–2030. These vehicles cover heavy equipment with water capability, miscellaneous heavy equipment, and regional-specific resources across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, and 6. The top parent vehicle by task-order count is IDC 12569R23T7934 (14 task orders, $878 thousand combined potential value), followed by Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04H1B177185 (7 task orders, $160 thousand combined potential value). Recent delivery-order activity reflects Top Rail's core capability: a $197,790 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 in July 2026 for heavy equipment rentals and wildland fire suppression support in Wenatchee, Washington; a $113,850 delivery order from the same region also in July 2026 for excavation services and personnel support; and a $104,975 delivery order in June 2025 for heavy equipment rentals supporting fire suppression operations. The company also supplies equipment directly: three purchase orders from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region in June 2025 for Type 2 dozers valued at $44,395, $47,835, and $64,910.

Activity has accelerated significantly. Top Rail received one award in 2023, four in 2024, twelve in 2025, and ten year-to-date in 2026, reflecting growing reliance by the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service for regional emergency response capacity. The combined potential value across all 48 awards is $4.6 million, with $1.8 million (39%) obligated to date. Top Rail's capability portfolio centers entirely on natural resources and forestry support (47 of 48 awards are coded to Support Activities for Forestry under NAICS 238910), with procurement concentrated in PSC codes for natural resources and conservation forest-range fire suppression and presuppression (43 awards). The company's geographic footprint spans performance locations in Wenatchee, Pendleton, Vancouver, and Boise, serving the western region's fire management infrastructure exclusively as a prime contractor operating under firm fixed-price arrangements with no subcontract layer.

Ecavation: site prep., demolition, ponds, ditches, parking lots, fire loops, sewers, material hauling.