Traverse Llc.

Traverse LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Prairie City, Oregon, supplies heavy equipment rentals and operators to federal civilian agencies for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response as a prime contractor across 30 awards (100% prime footprint) with no subcontractor activity. The company operates as a sole proprietorship and self-certifies as both a woman-owned small business and a small disadvantaged business, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurement rather than under set-aside vehicles — recent awards carry no set-aside designations despite Traverse's eligibility and the company's historic participation in small-business-reserved IDCs.

Traverse's capability portfolio centers on heavy equipment provision and operation — dozers, excavators, skidgines, and water tenders — for fire line construction, hazard mitigation, post-fire rehabilitation, and infrastructure projects across Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management regions in the western United States. Concrete representative work includes a $99,289.56 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (June 2025) for a Type 2 excavator with October 2025 completion; a $20,750 purchase order from the same agency (June 2025) for a Type 3 skidgine; a $52,350 delivery order (September 2022) from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for unspecified equipment services in John Day, Oregon; and a $48,716 delivery order (July 2021) from the National Interagency Fire Center for a Type 3 dozer.

Customer concentration is tight and entirely within the Department of Agriculture. The top three agencies account for 100% of awards, split between the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (17 awards, $874 thousand combined potential value) and the National Interagency Fire Center (11 awards, $964 thousand combined potential value), with the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region contributing 2 awards ($120 thousand). Traverse holds two small-business-reserved Indefinite Delivery Contracts valued at $250,000 each: one IDC awarded June 11, 2023, for heavy equipment serving Forest Service West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (expiring June 11, 2028) and one awarded June 2, 2022, for heavy equipment with water resources for those same regions (expiring June 2, 2025). Against these vehicles, Traverse places delivery orders through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system; the top two named IDCs carry 11 and 10 task orders respectively with combined potential values of $279 thousand and $320 thousand.

Activity has declined materially — five awards in both 2021 and 2022, then one award each in 2023 and 2024, and two awards in 2025 — with only two awards (combined potential value $120 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months. Total combined potential value across all 30 awards is $2 million, with $808 thousand obligated (41% drawn). Traverse operates exclusively in NAICS 541900 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code I312 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), with 28 of 30 awards in that PSC and two classified under Fire Fighting Equipment.

excavation, other heavy equipment