VM West LLC

VM West LLC, a woman-owned, SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Delta, Colorado, provides heavy equipment rental, transportation, personnel, and support services for wildland fire suppression and federal land management across western regions, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on federal awards. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on short-cycle delivery orders and blanket purchase agreements issued by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management; it does not hold a federal contract vehicle, prime contract IDV award, or federal grant prime award in its own right, but sits as a named contractor on multiple region-specific stewardship BPAs and indefinite-delivery vehicles held by the Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center.

VM West LLC's customer concentration centers on the USDA Forest Service and related Department of Interior land management agencies across the Western United States. The top five customers account for 87% of awards by count: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 2—Rocky Mountain Region leads with 17 awards and $56.4 million in combined potential value, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (12 awards, $3.3 million), the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (6 awards, $187 thousand), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 3—Southwestern Region (3 awards, $50.3 million). The dollars concentration tells a different story—five customers account for 71% of combined potential value, anchored by three single large stewardship BPAs: a $50 million award to support Region 3 Southwestern Region operations (Arizona and New Mexico), a $50 million Regional Research Station award for Region 4 Intermountain (Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), and a $50 million Forest Service R1 Northern Region award (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota). Recent activity includes a $430.9 million BPA call from Region 2 for the Gobbler Integrated Restoration and Stewardship Complex (May 2025–March 2027), a $598.2 million call for the Little Saint Charles Density Excellence Pilot Stewardship project (October 2024–November 2025), a $1.19 million call for Goat Camp wildfire mitigation and forest restoration on Pike-San Isabel National Forest (June 2024–June 2026), and a $215.1 million BPA call for the Moose Run Stewardship Initiative on Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests (July 2026–January 2028).

VM West LLC holds a portfolio of eight large parent IDVs and stewardship BPAs across the Forest Service's six regions and the National Interagency Fire Center, with combined ceilings totaling approximately $300 million. The largest vehicles by ceiling are five region-specific stewardship BPAs each valued at $50 million: the R2 Rocky Mountain Restoration Project (RMRP) BPA (August 2022–July 2032), the R3 Southwestern Stewardship BPA (December 2022–December 2032), the R6 Pacific Northwest (PNW) Stewardship BPA (April 2023–October 2032), the R4 Intermountain Stewardship BPA (May 2023–October 2032), and the R1 Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA (May 2023–October 2032). Smaller IDCs and I-BPAs sit at $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings across the National Interagency Fire Center for heavy equipment provisioning to designated East and West Zones (Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, 9). Additionally, VM West LLC holds a May 2026 Forest Service award to the Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA with a $50 million ceiling running through March 2033, and a February 2026 National Interagency Fire Center IDIQ for heavy equipment with water (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 East Zone) valued at $250,000 through June 2030. Task orders against these vehicles predominate the award portfolio: eight task orders against IDC 1202SB24T7418 ($746 thousand combined), six against BPA 12363N22A4029 ($5.4 million), and three against IDC 1282X920T7031 ($171 thousand).

Activity has grown sharply year over year—five awards in 2022 through fifteen in 2026—with a strong recompete cliff only in the immediate term: three awards totaling $3.6 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The company's recent awards (June 2026–August 2026) underscore its positioning on rapid-dispatch delivery vehicles for tactical fire suppression and land management work across the Rocky Mountain and Southwestern regions, with orders for logging truck services, heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, feller bunchers, masticators), transportation and lodging, and personnel support on firm fixed-price bases.

SCI-reported invoicing reflects partial federal services capture: VM West LLC reported $3.1 million in SCI-reportable prime invoicing in FY2025 across 12.6 FTEs, with minimal activity in FY2024 (0.2 FTEs). The company operates no named subcontractors on its SCI-reportable prime contracts and does not subcontract work under the awards in the source data—a 100% prime posture across its federal portfolio. Government-paid hourly rates in the SCI dataset are reported as $0/hr across all percentiles, indicating that the work is likely structured as fixed-price equipment rental and task orders rather than labor-hour or time-and-materials contracting, and the SCI figures understate the full scope of VM West LLC's federal services revenue, which is dominated by equipment provisioning and incident-support delivery orders not captured in SCI's labor-hour methodology.