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Kalispell, MT

(406) 300-3657
BOAZ

Public Sector

Agency & Public Works Capability

Boaz Land Management is a Kalispell-based land management and earthwork contractor available to federal, state, county, municipal, and tribal buyers — and to prime contractors seeking subcontract capacity in the Flathead Valley.

10
Capability areas
Statewide
Project mobilization
27
Communities
3
Counties

Capability areas

Work categories we perform, mapped to the agencies that buy them in this region.

  • 01

    Right-of-way & corridor vegetation

    Mechanical vegetation management, corridor clearing, and access work applicable to utility and infrastructure right-of-way scopes — performed outside the minimum approach distances of energized conductors. Work inside those distances requires qualified line-clearance personnel under OSHA 1910.269(r) and is a scope we do not self-perform.

  • 02

    Facility & tower access

    Construction and maintenance of access roads and lanes serving towers, poles, facility sites, and remote infrastructure — cut, drainage, aggregate placement, and vegetation control on the approach.

  • 03

    Hazardous fuels reduction & thinning

    Mechanical thinning, pruning, slash disposal, and pile burning to reduce wildland fire risk — typically in priority areas adjacent to National Forest System lands.

    Buyers: USDA Forest Service · DNRC grant recipients · CSKTLand ClearingMowing & Brush Cutting
  • 04

    Post-fire fuel mitigation

    Treatment of standing and downed fire-killed fuels along and adjacent to roads and recreation sites after fire events.

  • 05

    Forest road maintenance

    Road blading, culvert and ditch cleaning, road brushing, overhead trimming, and aggregate placement on forest road systems.

    Buyers: USDA Forest ServiceExcavationMowing & Brush Cutting
  • 06

    Culvert & drainage structure work

    Culvert installation and replacement and associated drainage work — frequently bundled with vegetation work under stewardship contracting authority.

    Buyers: USDA Forest Service · Flathead County Roads & BridgesExcavation
  • 07

    Municipal roadway & site work

    Roadway excavation, aggregate placement, grading, erosion and sediment control measures, topsoil placement, and site restoration on municipal and county projects.

    Buyers: City of Kalispell · City of Columbia Falls · Flathead County Roads & BridgesExcavationSite Restoration & Finish Work
  • 08

    Highway subcontract scope

    Clearing, excavation, grading, and drainage scope performed as a subcontractor to highway prime contractors.

    Buyers: MDT prime contractorsExcavationLand Clearing
  • 09

    Grounds & vegetation maintenance

    Recurring mowing, brush control, and vegetation management on public grounds, rights-of-way, and access corridors.

    Buyers: Municipalities · County departments · Federal facilitiesMowing & Brush CuttingSite Restoration & Finish Work
  • 10

    Site clearing & structure removal

    Clearing, demolition of small structures, debris removal, and site restoration on public property.

    Buyers: County departments · MunicipalitiesDemolitionDebris & Material RemovalLand Clearing

Contracting entities in this region

Federal

USDA Forest Service — Flathead National Forest

Hazardous fuels reduction, thinning, forest-stand improvement, road maintenance, culvert work, hazard tree removal, and recreation-site work — including bundled scopes under stewardship contracting authority.

Roughly 2.4 million acres, with the Supervisor's Office in Kalispell — the largest buyer of this kind of work in the service area, headquartered in it.

Solicitations post on SAM.gov · Agency site

Federal

National Park Service — Glacier National Park

Government contracts for facility, grounds, and infrastructure work are posted on SAM.gov (distinct from concessions and commercial use authorizations).

SAM.gov · Agency site

State

Montana DNRC — Forestry

Hazardous fuels work. Note the structure: DNRC's fuels program is largely a GRANT program whose eligible applicants are local governments, non-profits, and tribal entities — contractors are hired by those grant recipients to perform the work, not by applying for the grant.

Grant-recipient procurement; state solicitations via eMACS · Agency site

State

Montana Department of Transportation

Highway, street, and bridge construction let through scheduled bid lettings. For a company at this stage, realistic entry is subcontract scope under a road prime.

MDT contracting (separate from eMACS; registration required before bidding) · Agency site

County

Flathead County — Roads & Bridges / Commissioners' Office

County road and bridge projects plus general county goods and services.

Calls for Bids, RFQs and RFPs posted as public notices; the county maintains a bidders list you request in writing · Agency site

Municipal

Cities of Kalispell, Whitefish & Columbia Falls

Public works: roadway excavation, aggregate and surfacing, curb and gutter, erosion and sediment control, topsoil and seeding, chip seal programs.

City postings plus local legal notices — the small cities do not all run centralized portals · Agency site

Tribal

Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes

RFPs and sealed-bid solicitations across Forestry, Natural Resources, Tribal Lands, and Facilities departments.

South end of the operating radius. CSKT operates an Indian Preference Office; preference rules apply and should be understood before bid effort is invested.

CSKT posts solicitations directly · Agency site

Classification

NAICS codes matching this scope of work. Contracting officers assign the code per solicitation; these are the codes our work falls under.

  • 238910Site Preparation ContractorsPrimary
  • 115310Support Activities for ForestryPrimary
  • 561730Landscaping ServicesPrimary
  • 237990Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
  • 237310Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction

Registrations

Federal and state registrations are in process. Identifiers — UEI, CAGE, and vendor registrations — will be published here and on our capability statement as each is issued. Contracting officers and prime contractors are welcome to contact us directly in the meantime.

Responsibility determination

Before award, a contracting officer must make an affirmative determination of responsibility — and absent evidence, the regulation's default answer is nonresponsible. Our evidence is set out below against each criterion, in the order the regulation states them. Where something is not yet established, it says so.

  1. FAR 9.104-1(a)

    Adequate financial resources, or the ability to obtain them

    • Owner-operated with no external debt service against contract revenue
    • Scope sized to working capital — we bid work we can carry, and say so rather than over-reaching

    Bonding capacity and surety relationship are being established; no bonded capacity is claimed until a surety has issued it.

  2. FAR 9.104-1(b)

    Ability to meet the required delivery or performance schedule

    • Kalispell-based: no mobilization travel between the yard and the operating radius
    • Published, source-cited seasonal constraints — breakup, fire season, frost, and permitted in-stream windows — so schedules are built against real conditions
    • Current commitments disclosed at bid; we do not commit capacity twice
  3. FAR 9.104-1(c)

    Satisfactory performance record

    • References furnished on request as work completes
    • Commercial and private-sector performance is offered as relevant experience, which FAR 15.305(a)(2) permits

    No federal past performance record exists. FAR 9.104-1(c) provides that a contractor shall not be found responsible or nonresponsible solely on the basis of lacking relevant performance history.

  4. FAR 9.104-1(d)

    Satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics

    • No exclusions, suspensions, or debarments
    • Scope boundaries published rather than discovered at buyout — we state in writing what we do not perform
    • Every regulatory statement on this site carries its source and a review date
  5. FAR 9.104-1(e)

    Necessary organization, experience, accounting and operational controls, technical skills — including quality assurance and safety programs

    • Documented safety program covering pre-work assessment, on-site controls, and close-out
    • Documented operating standard governing scoping, boundaries, and close-out quality
    • Utility locate protocol and private-line disclosure practice applied before any ground disturbance
  6. FAR 9.104-1(f)

    Necessary equipment and facilities, or the ability to obtain them

    • Self-performed across six service lines with owned and operated equipment classes
    • Local yard and short mobilization distances across the operating radius

    A verified machine-by-machine inventory with capacities is published as it is confirmed; equipment classes are stated meanwhile rather than a fabricated fleet list.

  7. FAR 9.104-1(g)

    Otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award

    • Montana business, domestic entity, no inverted-domestic-corporation issue
    • Registration status published and kept current rather than asserted

Self-performance

Boaz self-performs its scope with its own workforce and equipment. We do not take award and broker the work.

General construction
85%maximum that may be subcontracted
Special trade construction
75%maximum that may be subcontracted
Services
50%maximum that may be subcontracted

Where a scope genuinely requires a licensed specialty we do not hold — septic installation, live utility connection, engineered retaining systems — it is identified during pricing and carried by the appropriate licensed contractor, disclosed rather than concealed.

Caps shown are the FAR 19.505 limitations on subcontracting that apply to small-business set-aside awards.

Compliance framework

The wage, bonding, and residency rules that govern public work of this type in Montana. We scope and price against them rather than discovering them mid-project.

Davis-Bacon ActFederal construction contracts over $2,000
Laborers and mechanics must be paid no less than locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits per the wage determination in the contract. Related Acts extend the requirement to federally assisted construction, so federal money flowing through a state or local project can carry it.
Service Contract ActFederal service contracts over $2,500
Recurring mowing, vegetation management, and grounds work are service contracts rather than construction — so wage obligations follow the Service Contract Act. Which act applies follows the nature of the work, not the contractor's description of it.
Miller Act bondingFederal construction contracts over $150,000
Performance and payment bonds are required above the threshold, generally written at 100% of the contract price. Contracts between $35,000 and $150,000 use alternative payment protections selected by the contracting officer.
Montana prevailing wagePublic works contracts of $25,000 or more
Montana's own prevailing wage law covers state, county, municipal, school district, and other political-subdivision contracts — and unlike the federal rule it reaches NONCONSTRUCTION SERVICES as well as construction. It also requires that at least 50% of a contractor's employees on the job be bona fide Montana residents.

Reviewed 2026-08-07. Thresholds subject to change — sourced in our research registry. Requirements are set per solicitation by the contracting authority.

Solicitations & subcontract inquiries

Contracting officers, small-business specialists, and prime contractors: reach us directly for a capability statement, bid interest, or subcontract capacity in the Flathead Valley.

Based in Kalispell, Montana — operating across the Flathead Valley and surrounding Northwest Montana.

Call(406) 300-3657Request project review