Alpine Transport Inc.

Alpine Transport Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, provides specialized transportation services and water handling equipment for wildland fire management and emergency response across the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor on multiple indefinite delivery contracts worth $250,000 each. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides through the Virtual Incident Procurement system.

Alpine Transport's customer base concentrates sharply on Forest Service operations. The top five customer entities account for 87% of awards by count and 92% of combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) anchors the portfolio with 136 awards valued at $6.1 million combined potential value, reflecting the vendor's primary operational footprint across Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and western Wyoming. The National Interagency Fire Center contributes 49 awards valued at $4.8 million, funding water tender, weed washing unit, and heavy equipment provision for fire suppression. The Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (52 awards, $1.5 million) adds secondary volume, with smaller shares from Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region), the Forest Service Washington Office, and other USDA components.

Alpine Transport's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized. The vendor delivers water handling equipment (water tenders, potable and gray water trucks, weed washing units), vehicles with driver services, heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders), and miscellaneous transportation logistics supporting wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed project work. Work is performed across Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 in the Western United States. Representative delivery orders include a $86,445 firm fixed-price order for water handling services in Boise, Idaho (August 2025), a $75,900 order for specialized vehicles in Venice, Utah (July 2025), and a $176,000 order for water tenders and transportation support in Region 4 (August 2024). Smaller orders—some as low as $3,000—reflect incident-driven demand throughout the year.

Alpine Transport holds thirteen active indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center, all valued at $250,000 ceiling each and set aside for total small business participation. The five largest vehicles by task-order volume are IDC 1202SB24T7491 (48 task orders, $2.5 million combined potential value), IDC 1202SB21T7311 (35 task orders, $1 million), IDC 1284M818T7010 (34 task orders, $797 thousand), IDC 1202SB22T7179 (33 task orders, $1.5 million), and BPA AG84M8B167013 (20 task orders, $628 thousand). These vehicles support rapid procurement through the Virtual Incident Procurement system, enabling the Forest Service to issue task orders as fire season and emergency response needs arise.

Activity has been cyclical and driven by incident response demand. Awards per year peaked at 57 in 2024, declined to 21 in 2025, and averaged 9 year-to-date in 2026 through June. The combined portfolio totals $14.7 million in potential value across 300 awards, with $10.5 million obligated (71% of combined potential value). Award classification concentrates heavily on NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry), representing 260 of 300 awards, with secondary categories in ground passenger transportation and specialty trade contracting. PSC coding confirms fire suppression focus: 280 awards carry the fire suppression/presuppression PSC, with smaller slices for fire fighting equipment and equipment rental.

The vendor faces no recompete cliff signal in the source; the portfolio shows steady turnover of incident-driven task orders rather than a concentration of awards with imminent completion. Alpine Transport operates solely on total small business set-asides and holds no positions on government-wide vehicles outside the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center structure. The vendor does not subcontract and carries no named prime relationships.