Wilkin Mining & Trucking Inc.

Wilkin Mining & Trucking Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Caliente, Nevada, supplies heavy equipment and operator services to support wildland fire suppression, fuels management, and emergency response operations across the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor exclusively — all 31 awards are prime positions with no sub work. The company is structured as a Subchapter S Corporation and operates entirely under Total Small Business set-asides on its parent indefinite delivery contracts, though individual task orders drawn against those IDCs carry mixed set-aside designations (Total Small Business, no set-aside used).

Wilkin's customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which accounts for 94% of recent awards and approximately 98% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the portfolio with nine awards carrying $2.4 million in combined potential value; the Intermountain Region (R4) places nine awards totaling $856 thousand; the Rocky Mountain Region (R2) four awards at $467 thousand. The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region is the sole non-Forest Service customer, with six purchase orders for individual equipment units totaling $163 thousand. Recent representative work includes a $314,256.30 firm fixed-price delivery order to the Intermountain Region (July 2024) for dozers, excavators, skidders, and water tenders; $117,828 to the Rocky Mountain Region (July 2026) for similar equipment; and $70,350 to the Intermountain Region (July 2026) for fire suppression equipment with a six-day completion window.

Wilkin holds position on five parent indefinite delivery contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Three contracts, each carrying $500,000 ceilings, cover miscellaneous heavy equipment and water handling for East Zone regions through 2028 and 2029; two older contracts with $250,000 ceilings expired or are expiring in 2025. The three active $500,000 IDCs generated nine task orders totaling $823 thousand, $524 thousand, and $225 thousand respectively. Equipment supplied includes dozers, excavators, skidders, water tenders, feller bunchers, road graders, and mulcher/masticators for fire line construction and vegetation management. Place of performance spans Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, California, and New Mexico across Forest Service regions and Bureau of Land Management operations.

Activity has accelerated markedly: two awards in 2022, one in 2023, five in 2024, nine in 2025, and nine through August 2026, with combined potential value of $4 million and $1.7 million in obligated dollars (44% obligation rate). The portfolio concentrates in NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC codes for forest-range fire suppression (25 awards) and fire fighting equipment (six awards). Nearly all work flows through the National Interagency Fire Center's preseason incident blanket purchase agreements, which accelerate procurement for rapid equipment mobilization during fire seasons and emergency response operations.