Blanket Purchase Agreement 140D0425A0012

The Department of the Interior (DOI) Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Apexheli Oregon Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide on-call Type III helicopter flight services in support of the agency's Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging of Animals (ACETA) and Wild Horse and Burro (WH&B) programs. The BPA, which is set aside for small businesses, has a 5-year ordering period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030, with a possible 6-month extension, and a ceiling value of $11,000,000.

The contracted services include provision of aircraft, personnel, and equipment necessary for inventory census, classification, eradication, marking, trapping, net gunning, darting, survey operations, herding, and other activities related to the ACETA and WH&B programs across the Lower 48 States. This requirement was originally solicited under a 100 percent small business set-aside with a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code of 481211, Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation. The Government anticipates issuing multiple BPAs through this procurement, which will enable federal agencies to issue task orders for a wide range of critical aerial support missions, including fire suppression, monitoring, initial attack, prescribed burns, short-haul operations, rappelling, and limited law enforcement surveillance.