Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SA23T9319

Heloair, Incorporated, a small business joint venture based in Chesapeake, Virginia, was awarded a $40 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service on April 12, 2023, with performance extending through December 31, 2032. This contract, designated as HSS MATOC TYPE 3, was established following a competitive solicitation posted in July 2022 that sought qualified operators to provide Type 3 helicopter support services to the United States Forest Service. The original solicitation, evaluated on a lowest-price technically acceptable basis, outlined requirements for helicopters and crews to perform diverse missions including wildfire suppression and attack, monitoring operations, prescribed burns, short-haul and rappel operations, and limited law enforcement surveillance. The contract carries no set-aside designation and encompasses a base period with nine optional one-year periods, with individual task orders valued at a minimum of $5,000 each. The primary place of performance is within the continental United States, with specific task orders issued to locations including Richmond International Airport in Virginia, Custer, South Dakota, Huger, South Carolina, and Aiken, South Carolina.

Under this IDV umbrella, the National Interagency Fire Center has issued multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders to Heloair totaling approximately $5.6 million across twelve task orders awarded between February 2024 and September 2025. These delivery orders range from approximately $29,312 to $3.11 million and support the agency's wildland fire management, emergency response, and resource monitoring missions. The contracted helicopter services support critical federal land management operations, including wildfire suppression and containment, prescribed burn operations, aerial reconnaissance and mapping, personnel and equipment transport, search and rescue operations, and limited law enforcement surveillance. Task order completion dates extend through December 31, 2027 and 2029, with the primary performance location at Richmond International Airport in Virginia, supplemented by geographic-specific deployments as required for wildfire response and resource management activities. Heloair's establishment of this substantial IDV, combined with its concurrent $49.5 million Department of Interior contract for on-call Type III helicopter services (2022–2027), positions the company as a significant aviation asset provider for federal wildland fire management and emergency response operations nationwide.