Barbara Abel

Barbara Abel, doing business as Heritage Services, is a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Camino, California, that provides potable and gray water truck/handwashing stations mounted on trailers to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center for fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed burn work. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides; across its recent portfolio, all work qualifies under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code for forest-range fire suppression.

Heritage Services holds two indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its federal position. The first, a multiple-award IDC awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on February 6, 2026, carries a $500 thousand ceiling and runs through May 28, 2029, reserved for potable and gray water truck/handwashing stations in USDA Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest). The second, a VIPR I-BPA (Virtual Incident Procurement) awarded on May 28, 2024, also carries a $250 thousand ceiling through May 28, 2029, and serves the same regional dispatch requirement. Against these IDCs, the vendor has issued five delivery orders to Heritage Services ranging from $15,960 to $67,429, with combined potential value of $158 thousand on $908 thousand total contract ceiling. The vendor's recent work includes a $67,429 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Forest Service for short-notice incident support (July 2024), a $33,801 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) under total small business set-aside (July 2026), and three smaller deliveries under the VIPR BPA in the Pacific Southwest region.

Customer concentration is monolithic — all seven awards derive from the Department of Agriculture via the Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center, with the two IDC vehicles accounting for $750 thousand (83% of combined potential value). The vendor's activity consists of five awards in 2024 and two in 2026; the trajectory is sparse and does not establish a growth pattern. Two IDCs expire May 28, 2029, placing the entire known portfolio at recompete risk in a single three-year window. The vendor has no subcontract footprint and does not participate on parent vehicles beyond the two forest-service IDCs listed above.

Heritage Services operates a specialized, localized capability — mobile field support equipment and dispatch logistics for wildland fire response across two adjacent western Forest Service regions. The business model centers on rapid-deployment equipment leasing and staffing for incident response, with vendor participation limited to fire-season and incident-activation windows. Federal exposure is narrow and customer-concentrated; the vendor does not compete in other agency domains or on civilian IT, construction, or professional services vehicles.