National Type 2-IA Firefighter Crews 2016-2020

The U.S. Forest Service, Incident Support Branch at the National Interagency Fire Center, awarded this Master IDIQ for up to 41 Type 2-IA firefighting crews for wildland fire suppression and all-risk incidents on June 29, 2016, with ordering closed on December 31, 2020. This vehicle is no longer active and has reached full obligation: 98% of its $2.1 million combined potential value is already obligated across 13 task orders, with the most recent award placed in November 2021, over four years ago.

The vehicle contracted Type 2-IA crew support and prescribed-burn support services, including severity and preparedness assignments and fuels management work. Task-order scope centered on regional prescribed-fire burning programs and fuels reduction, with individual orders ranging from approximately $44 thousand to $657 thousand in ceiling value and firm fixed-price pricing.

Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc. dominated by potential value, holding 5 orders worth $1.2 million combined—roughly 57% of the vehicle's total potential value. Grayback Forestry, Inc. tied Firestorm in order count with 5 awards but captured only $377 thousand combined potential value. Patrick Environmental Inc. and Miller Timber Services, Inc. account for the remainder. Concentration is moderate: the top two primes by value (Firestorm and Grayback) hold approximately 75% of potential value.

The U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (R5) led ordering activity with 5 task orders worth $1.2 million, followed by the Northern Region (R1), Southern Region (R8), and Eastern Region (R9), which collectively placed the remaining 8 orders. Eighty-five percent of orders carried no set-aside designation; 15% were small-business set-asides.

This vehicle is past its useful life for business development purposes. Ordering authority expired five years ago, and all potential value has been obligated. New work under this vehicle cannot be pursued.

The U.S. Forest Service, Incident Support Branch at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, is soliciting the services of up to forty-one (41) Type 2-IA (Initial Attack qualified) 20-person firefighting crews for use in wildland fire suppression and all risk incidents. Other optional work includes severity/preparedness assignments and project work related to fuels management.