1ST Choice Contracting, Inc.

1ST Choice Contracting, Inc., a Salem, Oregon-based small business, provides Type 2 wildland firefighter crews and incident response services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under small-business set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly on full-and-open basis in recent task orders, though its foundational contract vehicle—a $500 thousand Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Interagency Fire Center awarded May 11, 2021—carries a small-business set-aside designation.

1ST Choice Contracting's customer base is narrowly concentrated: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 95% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. The Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) dominates the footprint with 39 awards worth $4.6 million combined potential value, followed by Forest Service undifferentiated awards (11 awards, $1.3 million), the National Interagency Fire Center (1 award, $750 thousand), Region 1 Northern Region (3 awards, $451 thousand), and Region 4 Intermountain Region (1 award, $241 thousand). This regional concentration reflects the company's operational posture—all performance occurs across western U.S. wildland fire zones: Wenatchee, Fossil, Roseburg, Sisters, Redmond, and Pendleton in Oregon; Colville, Washington; Libby, Montana; and subordinate national forest units across the Pacific Northwest, Northern, Intermountain, and Pacific Southwest regions.

The company's vehicle footprint centers on three Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center. IDC 1202SC21T2400 carries 28 task orders worth $4.2 million combined potential value; IDC AG04H1B179591 carries 12 task orders worth $981 thousand; and IDC AG04H1B179592 carries 12 task orders worth $1.2 million. Recent representative awards include a $240 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 for wildland fire and all-hazard incidents at Wenatchee (August 9, 2026), a $232 thousand order at Fossil, Oregon (August 3, 2026), and a $226 thousand order at Pendleton (July 16, 2026)—all firm fixed-price, completing July 1, 2027.

Activity accelerated materially in 2024 (13 awards) following sparse 2022–2023 periods (1 and 4 awards respectively), then moderated in 2025 (3 awards) and 2026 year-to-date (6 awards). Six awards with combined potential value of $1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. The company's $7.5 million combined potential value footprint reflects specialized incident-response positioning rather than general IT or management consulting services—all 58 awards sit under NAICS 541730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC codes for natural resources conservation and forest-range fire suppression, with no diversification into other federal customer bases or capability areas beyond Type 2 crew deployment.

working in Forestry tree planting, pruning, thinning, fire trails, boomer trapping, spraying,

wildfires.