Valley Sand & Gravel LLC

Valley Sand & Gravel LLC, a Helena, Montana-based small business limited liability company, supplies heavy equipment and water handling resources to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, operating exclusively through delivery orders issued against Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements structured for rapid wildland fire suppression and emergency incident response.

Valley Sand & Gravel LLC operates entirely as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under small business set-asides, with no subcontractor engagements in the source data. The vendor's NAICS footprint is concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (33 awards) and Construction Sand and Gravel Mining (2 awards), with corresponding PSC codes in Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Recent capability work includes a $44.7 thousand delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) on August 7, 2025, for heavy equipment supporting wildfire containment; a $42.9 thousand delivery order from the same region on August 20, 2025, under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system; and a $25 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) on August 2, 2026, for water handling and emergency response equipment. The vendor's equipment portfolio spans dozers, excavators, water trucks, feller bunchers, road graders, skidders, and mulcher/masticators deployed across western U.S. regions for fire suppression, flood response, and incident management.

Customer concentration is tightly held within Forest Service operations. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 10 awards valued at $2.4 million combined potential value (approximately 69% of total potential value), while Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) holds 19 awards valued at $1.1 million. The two rankings diverge slightly — NIFC anchors the dollar value through IDC holdings, while Region 1 drives award volume — but both trace to Forest Service fire suppression missions. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation rounds out the customer set with 2 awards valued at $24 thousand.

Valley Sand & Gravel LLC holds five active IDCs and one BPA as parent vehicles. The National Interagency Fire Center has awarded four multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts set aside for total small businesses: a $500 thousand contract for water handling equipment covering East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (awarded February 6, 2026, completing May 30, 2030); a $500 thousand contract for heavy equipment covering the same regions (awarded February 6, 2026, completing June 4, 2028); a $250 thousand contract for water handling across Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (awarded May 30, 2025, completing May 30, 2030); and a $250 thousand contract for heavy equipment covering Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (awarded June 4, 2023, completing June 4, 2028). The vendor also holds a $250 thousand IDC awarded June 2, 2022, for water handling and equipment across Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9 (completing May 30, 2025). A Blanket Purchase Agreement (AG0343B177168) has generated 9 task orders valued at $355 thousand combined. Task orders under these vehicles range from $10 thousand to $44.7 thousand and are issued competitively to support rapid resource deployment during wildfires and all-hazards incidents. Optional-use rights extend to the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Activity has accelerated significantly in the recent period. The vendor received one award each in 2022, 2023, and 2024, then grew to 6 awards in 2025 and 6 awards in 2026 (as of early August). Combined potential value across all 35 awards totals $3.5 million, with $572 thousand obligated (16% of potential). Three IDCs expire between May and June 2025 and face potential recompete; two additional IDCs run through 2028, and the two newest NIFC awards run through 2030. The Service Contract Inventory dataset records minimal SCI-reportable activity — 0.7 FTEs and 2 named-subcontractor records in FY2024 — reflecting the vendor's goods and equipment-delivery focus, which falls outside SCI's $150 thousand service-contract threshold. The source carries no indication of sub-engagement; Valley Sand & Gravel LLC operates as a direct-delivery vendor without named subcontractors in its federal award history.

Valley Sand & Gravel is family owned and operated with over 30 years of experience. Specialize in custom crushing, trucking and hauling, road construction, new road construction and excavation.