This federal contract Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to Neptune Aviation Services, Inc., a woman-owned small business, for the provision of large airtanker services to support aerial firefighting operations nationwide. The $1.444 billion IDV contract, awarded in 2024, has a period of performance through 2033 and enables the Forest Service to issue both exclusive use and call-when-needed task orders for these critical aerial firefighting capabilities.
Under this IDV, the Forest Service has issued multiple delivery orders to Neptune Aviation, including a $41,093,820 firm-fixed-price contract for exclusive use of Neptune's large airtankers and associated services over a 160-day period in 2024-2028. These task orders are part of the Forest Service's MATCO 2023 program, which provides aerial fire retardant delivery in support of wildland fire suppression efforts coordinated by the National Interagency Fire Center, a civilian federal agency. Neptune Aviation Services has extensive experience supporting federal agencies' aerial firefighting needs through numerous previous contract awards, often as a small business set-aside.
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