DOI On-Call Small Helicopter Flight Service IDIQ

The Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center awarded this Master IDIQ for contractor-operated on-call small (Type-III) helicopter flight services in the Conterminous 48 States on April 25, 2013, with a shared ceiling of $6 million and a last date to order of May 30, 2017—ordering closed nine years ago. The vehicle is now inactive; no new orders may be placed against it. A successor vehicle, DOI On-Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017-2018, was awarded May 1, 2017.

The IDIQ is fully set-aside for small business under NAICS 481211 (air taxi and charter service). Awarded contractors must hold FAA certificates under 14 CFR Parts 135, 133, and 137. Work includes wildland fire suppression, fire monitoring, initial attack, prescribed fire and aerial ignition, rehabilitation seeding, search and rescue, law enforcement surveillance, and administrative resource activities across domestic operations.

The vehicle generated 665 task orders over its life, with annual ordering peaking in 2014 at 175 orders before declining to 39 orders in 2017. Combined task-order potential value totaled $24 million, with $24 million obligated (100% execution). HMC Helicopter Service LLC led by order count with 56 awards valued at $4.1 million combined potential, followed by Papillon Airways Inc. (52 orders, $1.8 million) and Hiline Helicopter, Inc. (52 orders, $1.1 million). The top five primes held 39 percent of all orders; by potential value, the top five (including Reeder Flying Service at $2.8 million) captured 45 percent of the vehicle's total value. Activity was distributed across 47 distinct prime contractors and 44 customer agencies. Approximately 94 percent of orders were small-business set-aside; the remaining 6 percent carried no set-aside. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region was the largest customer by order count (136 orders, $2.5 million), while the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region placed 77 orders valued at $12.5 million—the single largest customer by potential value. Task orders ranged from zero-dollar awards to orders exceeding $88 thousand, with typical values in the low five-figure range. Most recent orders, executed through July 2017, supported fire management and search-and-rescue operations.

The Department of The Interior, Interior Business Center, Acquisition Services Directorate, Boise, ID has awarded a Master IDIQ for Contractor-operated and maintained On Call (OC) small (Type-III) helicopter flight services to transport personnel and/or cargo in support of Government natural resource missions in the Conterminous 48 States. Missions will include, but are not limited to, interagency fire management program support such as wildland fire suppression, fire monitoring, initial attack, prescribed fire and aerial ignition, rehabilitation seeding, search and rescue, law enforcement limited to non-threatening surveillance and other administrative and related resource activities.