For Prime Contractors
Subcontract Capacity
If you hold a highway, site, utility, or facilities prime contract in the Flathead Valley and need dirt work, clearing, or vegetation scope covered locally, this is what we self-perform and how to put us on a bid.
For evaluators, in one screen
- What is self-performed?
- Clearing, grubbing, mulching, excavation, grading, trench prep and backfill, drainage earthwork, aggregate placement, mowing and vegetation control, small-structure demolition, debris haul-off, restoration and reseeding.
- Where can we mobilize?
- Headquartered in Kalispell with routine operations across Northwest Montana (27 communities inside a 60-mile radius). Project mobilization is Statewide Montana — Project mobilization statewide; day-to-day field operations are based in Northwest Montana.
- What equipment is available?
- The machine classes each service requires. A documented fleet inventory with make, model, and access requirements is not yet published — ask and we will state exactly what would come to the site.
- What project types fit?
- Site preparation, corridor and right-of-way clearing, fuels reduction, forest road and drainage earthwork, and post-fire mitigation — as a subcontract scope or direct award.
- What documentation exists?
- A capability statement, published compliance posture, and this scope boundary. Registrations and past performance are listed only once verified; none are claimed today.
- How do we request capability information?
- Send the solicitation number or plan set. A scoped number comes back, with any portion outside self-performed scope identified before award rather than after.
- How do we contact you?
- (406) 300-3657 · Written inquiries
What we self-perform
Scope performed with our own crews and equipment — not brokered to a third party after award.
- Clearing and grubbing, corridor and right-of-way clearing
- Forestry mulching and mechanical fuels treatment
- Excavation, cut and fill, rough and finish grading
- Trench preparation and backfill for another trade's install
- Ditch, culvert, and drainage structure earthwork
- Aggregate placement and gravel base preparation
- Heavy mowing, brush cutting, and vegetation control
- Small-structure demolition and concrete removal
- Debris sorting, loading, and haul-off
- Topsoil placement, surface restoration, and reseeding
Where our scope ends
Stated plainly so nobody discovers it at buyout: we prepare sites and move earth. We do not construct septic systems — that requires a county-licensed installer — do not make live utility connections, and do not build engineered retaining structures. We trench, bed, and backfill for the licensed trade that does. If a scope needs a specialty license, engineer stamp, or permit we don't hold, we say so during pricing rather than after award.
Coverage & mobilization
Headquartered in Kalispell. Routine field operations run across Northwest Montana — 27 communities inside a 60-mile radius — and project mobilization is Statewide Montana. The Flathead Valley and surrounding Northwest Montana. For work in this county, our mobilization is local — no travel-and-per-diem load carried into your bid, and no weather-day exposure from a crew driving in from another region.
Site conditions that drive schedule here are documented publicly in our service-area terrain profiles — soils, seasonal groundwater, breakup timing, and fire-season constraints by community. Useful when you're building a schedule you have to defend.
Who applies changes which permit applies
For work touching a perennially-flowing stream in Montana, the instrument depends on the applicant, not the activity. A private landowner or non-governmental entity applies for a 310 permit through the local conservation district. A state agency, county, or city applies under the Stream Protection Act — SPA 124 — through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Placement of dredged or fill material brings in a Corps 404 permit regardless of who is asking, and short-term turbidity exceedances need a 318 authorization from DEQ.
This matters on a bid schedule. The 310 process runs 30 to 90 days and an approved permit is valid for one year, so a crossing or ditch scope priced without that window built in is priced wrong. A stream that runs dry each year because it is being irrigated is still perennial for permit purposes — a distinction that has caught out crews new to the state.
Compliance posture
We price against the frameworks that govern public work rather than discovering them mid-project:
- Davis-Bacon ActFederal construction contracts over $2,000
- Service Contract ActFederal service contracts over $2,500
- Miller Act bondingFederal construction contracts over $150,000
- Montana prevailing wagePublic works contracts of $25,000 or more
Certified payroll, insurance certificates, and additional-insured endorsements are provided as the contract requires. Full detail on the public-sector capability page.
Put us on a bid
Send the solicitation number or plan set and the scope you need covered. We'll return a scoped number and tell you plainly if any portion falls outside what we self-perform.