Alpine Air Alaska, LLC

Alpine Air Alaska, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Girdwood, Alaska, provides on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies across Alaska's remote terrain as a prime contractor on 98% of recent awards, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The company is a subsidiary of Alpine Acquisition, LLC.

Alpine Air's federal footprint concentrates on Interior Department operations and USDA Forest Service missions. The Department of the Interior Interior Business Center anchors the portfolio with a $16.47 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded March 1, 2022, running through February 28, 2027, set aside for total small business. This vehicle generates delivery orders from the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center (stream gage maintenance at Wolverine Glacier and Olsen Bay, benchmark glacier monitoring), the National Park Service Alaska Region (weather station maintenance, natural resource surveys, thermal refugia fish surveys, Kennicott Glacier spring operations), the Bureau of Land Management (stream surveys, crew transport), the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (raptor nest surveys, repeater maintenance, flight training), and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (allotment reconnaissance). Recent Interior Business Center task orders (April–September 2026) range from $2,850 to $81,573 with firm fixed-price or fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment structures. Alpine Air also holds a $7.5 million National Interagency Fire Center Basic Ordering Agreement for wildfire response and general helicopter support. The company's top five customer agencies by award count account for 75% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-Alaska Region (67 awards, $667 thousand combined potential value), USGS Alaska Science Center (66 awards, $1 million), NPS Alaska Region (48 awards, $648 thousand), USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (22 awards, $253 thousand), and BLM Alaska Region (14 awards, $563 thousand). By dollar value, the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices anchors concentration with a single $38.2 million award, while the Interior Business Center accounts for $19.3 million across twelve awards. The National Interagency Fire Center carries $7.6 million across eleven awards.

Alpine Air's capability is narrowly focused: 242 of 282 prime awards (86%) fall under NAICS 488320 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation), with 40 awards under freight air transportation. Work includes on-call helicopter transportation for scientific research (glacier monitoring, stream gage maintenance), land management (wildlife surveys, vegetation surveys), emergency response, personnel logistics, and infrastructure maintenance across Alaska's federal lands spanning Girdwood, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Valdez, Port Alsworth, Glennallen, Copper Center, Sleetmute, and Soldotna. Representative prime awards include a $25 thousand delivery order (July 2026, Department of Interior NPS, total small business set-aside) for helicopter cyclic maintenance of NPS west radio repeater equipment at Gakona; an $81,573 delivery order (June 2026, BIA, total small business set-aside) for allotment reconnaissance flights at Sleetmute; and a $201,772.85 delivery order (June 2025, USGS Alaska Science Center, total small business set-aside) for helicopter support of Alaska Basins and Petroleum Systems Projects.

Activity averaged 17.6 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026: 20, 14, 19, 19, 16), with modest decline in 2023 and relative stability since. Combined potential value across all 288 awards stands at $68.6 million, but only $6.9 million (10%) is obligated, reflecting the predominantly on-call, task-order-driven nature of the work. Six awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $149 thousand—a negligible recompete cliff.

Alpine Air subcontracts to Battelle Memorial Institute on the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services (ARSLS) contract, providing helicopter support for Toolik research operations (awards dated April 2023, March 2024, March 2025, April and June 2026). The company also subcontracts to Chugach Dynamic Solutions LLC on R21 Alaska C5ISC mission-critical VHF/UHF/DSC communications helicopter transport work (October 2025 award, subsequently cancelled and de-obligated in February 2026).

The Interior Business Center and DOI Alaska On Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017–2021 IDV are the primary vehicles, generating 66 and 63 task orders respectively. Blanket Purchase Agreements with USDA Forest Service (AG0120B120009 and AG0116B159002) and Interior (IND12PA00172) round out the vehicle portfolio with 38, 16, and 33 task orders respectively. Alpine Air's award footprint is geographically and operationally defined by Alaska's extreme remoteness and federal land dominance; all work is performed in Alaska with administrative oversight at Girdwood.