Helicopter Rental Services in Hawaii 2013-2017

The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Interior Business Center established a Master IDIQ for helicopter rental services in Hawaii on January 31, 2013, with a last date to order of February 28, 2018. The vehicle has been closed to new orders since February 2018, making it inactive for BD purposes. With a combined potential value of $2.8 million and 100% of that value already obligated across 149 task orders, no new funding opportunity remains under this vehicle.

Awarded task orders contracted helicopter services, crews, and associated equipment for fire suppression, fire monitoring, initial attack, prescribed fire operations and aerial ignition, rehabilitation seeding, search and rescue, aerial animal capture and tagging, overwater and vessel landings, law enforcement surveillance, and natural resource management. Work was limited to the State of Hawaii. Task orders funded services for National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, and University of Hawaii missions across multiple islands and locations.

Competition concentrated among four dominant primes. Manuiwa Airways, Incorporated held 46 orders valued at $911 thousand; Windward Aviation Inc. held 36 orders valued at $1 million; K & S Helicopters, Inc. held 28 orders valued at $541 thousand; and Airborne Aviation LLC held 27 orders valued at $231 thousand. These four firms captured 95% of task-order count and 99% of combined potential value. All 149 task orders were unset-aside, competed among unrestricted vendors.

Customer distribution was concentrated within Interior. National Park Service Alaska Region placed 34 orders, Interior Business Center placed 28 orders, and U.S. Geological Survey offices placed 35 combined orders. These three customer organizations accounted for 73% of all task orders placed under the vehicle.

Typical task-order values ranged from under five hundred dollars to roughly $193 thousand, with most orders in the five-thousand to eighty-thousand-dollar range. Orders funded short-term operations lasting two to six months. The vehicle's ordering period spanned from March 2013 through August 2017, with annual task-order volume ranging from 21 to 36 orders per year across 2013 through 2017.

Contractor services under this Master IDIQ include provisions of a helicopter, personnel, and all other associated equipment. Missions will include, but are not limited to, interagency fire management program support such as fire suppression, fire monitoring, initial attack, prescribed fire and aerial ignition, rehabilitation seeding, search and rescue, Aerial Capture, Eradication and Tagging of Animals (ACETA), Overwater, platform and Vessel Landings, and law enforcement limited to non-threatening surveillance and other administrative and related natural resource activities. Services under this contract are limited to work within the State of Hawaii.