Blanket Purchase Agreement 140D0425A0016

The Department of the Interior (DOI) Departmental Offices Interior Business Center awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Elkhorn Aviation, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged, woman-owned, and veteran-owned business located in Baker City, Oregon. The $11,000,000 BPA provides on-call Type III helicopter flight services to support the DOI's Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging of Animals (ACETA) and Wild Horse and Burro (WH&B) programs across the Lower 48 States over a 5-year ordering period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030, with a possible 6-month extension.

The required 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. This BPA was awarded 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 procurement is intended to allow DOI land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rapidly order a variety of specialized aerial services, including wildland firefighting, wildlife surveys, search and rescue, and emergency response missions across federal lands in the western United States.