Upper Valley Contracting, LLC

Upper Valley Contracting, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor delivering land and forest management services, heavy equipment rental for fire suppression, and road maintenance to federal land management agencies through delivery orders against blanket purchase agreements and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes primarily under total small business set-asides on fire-focused vehicles and full-and-open on stewardship BPAs; across its prime footprint, woman-owned small business designation and total small business set-aside posture recur across National Interagency Fire Center contracts and select Forest Service regional vehicles.

Upper Valley Contracting's concrete service portfolio centers on vegetation management (mastication, clearing, scarification), habitat restoration, road construction and maintenance (grading, aggregate placement, resurfacing), infrastructure construction, equipment rental for wildland firefighting (dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, graders, skidders, water handling equipment), and emergency response support. Representative work includes a $473,764 delivery order from the Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain) for comprehensive land and forest management services completed in 2025, a $315,664 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region for conifer mastication across 463 acres in Fremont County (total small business set-aside, 2023), and a $257,696 delivery order from Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern) for unspecified stewardship services in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2022).

Customer concentration sits entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. The top five customer offices (by potential value) account for 99 percent of combined potential value: the Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) anchors the largest share at $100 million combined potential value across three BPA vehicles, followed by Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) at $53.8 million across seven awards, Region 3 (Southwestern Region) at $50.7 million across seven awards, the National Interagency Fire Center at $5.2 million across twenty awards, and Region 4 (Intermountain Region) at $2.6 million across thirty-one awards. By award count, Region 4 places the most orders (31 awards), followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (20 awards), demonstrating that Region 4 uses many small individual task orders while Regions 1, 2, and 3 anchor value through large umbrella vehicles.

Upper Valley Contracting holds six active Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Forest Service totaling $200 million in combined ceiling: the Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA ($50 million, Region 1, through October 2032), the Rocky Mountain Restoration Project BPA ($50 million, Region 2, through July 2032), the Southwest Stewardship BPA ($50 million, Region 3, through December 2032), and a Region 1–Region 4 Forest Engineering and Road Maintenance BPA ($50 million, through August 2033). The vendor also holds fourteen active Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement vehicles through the National Interagency Fire Center, each with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $750,000 and running through 2028–2030, covering heavy equipment task forces, heavy equipment with water, water handling, and miscellaneous heavy equipment across Fire Service East Zone regions (Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9). Task order activity under these vehicles shows seasonal clustering: the top parent vehicle (Indefinite Delivery Contract 1284M820T7184) carries 14 task orders valued at $730 thousand; the second (1202SB24T7372) carries 13 task orders at $1.2 million; the third (1202SB23T7587) carries 10 task orders at $651 thousand.

Activity shows growth followed by decline: nine awards in 2022, fourteen in 2023, ten in 2024, and eighteen in 2025, with nine awards recorded so far in 2026. The recompete horizon shows material exposure: based on BPA and IDC completion dates listed in the source, several vehicles are approaching expiration (Region 1–4 FERM BPA expires August 2033; Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA expires October 2032; multiple VIPR I-BPA vehicles expire between May 2028 and June 2028), representing significant recompete risk if award patterns continue. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor (100 percent of awards) with no subcontract activity recorded in the source. Work is performed across multiple western states and Forest Service regions (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada), with administrative headquarters in Idaho Falls and performance concentrated in Intermountain and Rocky Mountain regions. Primary NAICS concentration sits under 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry, representing 93 of 103 awards), with four awards under highway and bridge construction and four under electrical installation work.

Upper Valley Contracting is a diversified excavation and construction company. We have been in business for 17 years. We specialize in general excavation, rehab work, pipeline construction, demolition and wildfire suppression.