West Wood LLC

West Wood LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, provides heavy equipment and operator services for wildland fire suppression, vegetation management, and forest stewardship across the USDA Forest Service's multi-region footprint, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center vehicles. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements, with all 55 recent awards classified as prime work under small-business set-asides or full-and-open competition.

West Wood's customer base concentrates almost entirely with the Forest Service. The top five customer lines account for 98% of recent awards: the Forest Service's Northern Region (R1) dominates with 33 awards and $51.6 million combined potential value, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (14 awards, $4.8 million), the Forest Service broadly (4 awards, $263 thousand), the Southwestern Region (R3) (2 awards, $191 thousand), and the Intermountain Region (R4) (1 award, $66 thousand). The two rankings align completely—there is no divergence between volume and dollars. All work falls under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression codes.

West Wood's capability footprint centers on deploying excavators, dozers, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, and specialized water-handling equipment, along with trained and certified personnel, to support emergency response and prescribed project work. Representative prime work includes a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service R1 (awarded May 15, 2023, running through October 2032) for Northern Rockies stewardship services across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota; a $43.5 thousand delivery order from Forest Service R1 for heavy equipment wildland fire suppression services (August 29, 2026); a $60.6 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service R1 for fuels reduction and vegetation management in Libby, Montana (August 14, 2025); and multiple contracts under the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

West Wood holds a substantial portfolio of Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service. The largest parent vehicles by task-order count are an IDC (1202SB21T7190) with 11 task orders and $610 thousand combined potential value, a BPA (AG0343B177038) with 5 task orders and $69 thousand, an IDC (1202SB24T7376) with 4 task orders and $212 thousand, and a BPA (12034318T7168) with 4 task orders and $290 thousand. These VIPR I-BPA vehicles cover heavy equipment, faller services, water handling, and miscellaneous equipment across East Zone regions (1, 2, 4, 9) and West Zone regions (5, 6) of the Forest Service with ceilings ranging from $250 thousand to $500 thousand per contract, all awarded under total small business set-asides through February and June 2026 with performance periods extending through 2028 to 2030.

Activity expanded significantly in 2023 (10 awards) from a 2022 baseline of 6 awards, then contracted to 4 in 2024 and 3 in 2025 before rebounding to 10 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $56.9 million, though only $1.6 million (3%) has been obligated. West Wood carries no subcontract footprint; all 55 awards are prime positions. Place of performance spans multiple western locations including Bonners Ferry, Dalton Gardens, Libby, and Kamiah in Idaho and Montana, with work performed across Forest Service Regions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 and optional use available to interagency partners including the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs under specific payment and administrative terms.