Western States Valuation, LLC

Western States Valuation, LLC, a Native American-owned, minority-owned sole proprietorship based in Ogden, Utah, provides real property appraisals and technical review of appraisals to the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor, exclusively on small-business set-aside and full-and-open basis with no subcontract footprint. The firm specializes in land valuation services for federal land management, conservation easement acquisition, and water-rights assessment across NAICS 519411 (Offices of Real Estate Appraisers) and PSC 7330 (Support—Professional: Real Property Appraisals), where 28 of 30 recent prime awards cluster.

Western States Valuation's customer footprint concentrates heavily on Interior and Agriculture sub-offices. The top five funding sub-agencies account for 80 percent of recent award count but only a modest share of dollars—the Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service Headquarters anchors the portfolio with a single $2.25 million multiple-award BPA extending through October 2028 for real property appraisals and technical reviews of land parcels proposed for NRCS conservation easement programs. Behind that IDV sit the Department of Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget (10 awards, $225 thousand combined potential value), the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (5 awards, $121 thousand), the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Albuquerque Acquisition Office ($106 thousand on a single award), and the Agriculture Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station and Southwestern Region (3 awards, $39 thousand combined). The firm holds a position on a Department of Interior Central Region BPA (12FPC224A0003) under which it has placed three task orders totaling $27 thousand.

Recent named work includes a $36,400 Total Small Business purchase order from Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget (June 2026) for appraisal services in Sandoval, San Juan, and McKinley Counties, New Mexico; a $36,000 full-and-open purchase order from the International Boundary and Water Commission (October 2025) to obtain market value of surface water rights administered by the Elephant Butte Irrigation District; and a $18,520 BPA call from Interior's Central Region (August 2026) for real property appraisals and technical review of easement appraisals in Pierre, South Dakota. Activity is sparse and inconsistent—two to four awards per year over the past five years, with one award (combined potential value $36 thousand) reaching completion in the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across all 30 awards is $2.9 million, with only $572 thousand obligated to date (20 percent realization). The firm operates exclusively as a prime with zero subcontract relationships in the source data, positioning it as a direct land valuation vendor rather than a systems integrator or teaming partner.