Tri-State Dirtworks, LLC

Tri-State Dirtworks, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Moyie Springs, Idaho, provides road construction, maintenance, and bridge infrastructure services to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates as a limited liability company and competes entirely through federal set-aside vehicles and task orders rather than full-and-open competition.

Tri-State Dirtworks' capability portfolio centers on road rehabilitation, reconstruction, and maintenance across western federal lands. Representative work includes a $368,375 full reconstruction of National Forest Service Road 250 on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests in Idaho (62 culvert installations, 18 miles of roadway resurfacing, awarded May 2024), a $413,297 Jackson Willow Road Resiliency project in Bozeman, Montana under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (awarded September 2023), and a $425,169 definitive contract with the Bureau of Land Management to grade, shape, and resurface 3.5 miles of Moose Creek Road in Montana (awarded September 2021). The work portfolio also spans drainage repair, culvert cleaning and replacement, gravel hauling, brush clearing, spot surfacing, and equipment operation to support wildfire prevention and public land access.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) accounts for 8 awards totaling $101.1 million combined potential value (67% of the portfolio), with Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) adding 3 awards worth $49.8 million (33%). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas Region and the Forest Service's national office combined contribute less than 1% of potential value across 3 awards. All fourteen awards in Tri-State's active footprint are Forest Service or BLM work.

Tri-State holds four parent contract vehicles, all with the Forest Service: a $50 million multiple-award MATOC for Region 1 Road and Bridge Construction (awarded December 2024, running through December 2029) from which one task order worth $137,160 has been placed; a $50 million multiple-award BPA for Region 1–Region 4 Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance (awarded October 2023, running through August 2033); a $49 million multiple-award BPA for Pacific Northwest Road Maintenance (awarded July 2023, running through June 2033); and a single-award $499,999 BPA with Region 6 (awarded October 2023, running through January 2030). Award activity has been episodic — two awards in 2021, two in 2022, seven in 2023, two in 2024, and one in early 2026 — with only $137 thousand in potential value reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore exposing minimal recompete risk in that window. Combined potential value across all fourteen awards stands at $151.3 million, though only $1.8 million (1%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the preponderance of IDV ceiling values rather than task-order draws.