Alvord Fire Suppression LLC

Alvord Fire Suppression LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Medford, Oregon, supplies wildland fire suppression equipment rental and trained personnel to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively — all 83 awards in the source data are prime contracts and IDVs, with no subcontract footprint. The company operates across multiple indefinite delivery contracts under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on delivery orders and purchase orders to Forest Service regional offices nationwide.

Alvord's service portfolio centers on rental of specialized heavy equipment — dozers, excavators, skidgen pumpers, and water tenders — along with trained and certified personnel to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed fire operations. Representative recent work includes a $117,005 firm fixed-price delivery order to the Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) awarded August 7, 2026, a $106,450 order to Region 6 for equipment rental at Pendleton, Oregon (August 10, 2026), and a $160,000 purchase order from the Forest Service's Idaho Region for Type 2 excavator equipment at Fire Rail Ridge near Alvord, Idaho (June 1, 2025). The company holds multiple IDVs through the National Interagency Fire Center, each with $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings and performance periods extending through 2029 or 2030, covering West Zone (Regions 3, 5, and 6), East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), and Region 6–specific heavy equipment procurement.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture's fire management apparatus. The top five customer entities account for 97% of combined potential value. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads on dollars (16 awards, $4.8 million combined potential value), while the Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region dominates by award count (38 awards, $2.9 million combined potential value). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and the Rocky Mountain Research Station round out the active customer base. Regional dispatch centers in the Pacific Northwest, Intermountain, and Southwestern regions are primary performance locations, with task orders typically carrying completion windows of two to four weeks.

Activity accelerated in 2024 (19 awards) and rebounded in 2026 (18 awards), after slower years in 2023 (3 awards). The vendor holds primary positions on five named parent vehicles under VIPR, including Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R25T7308 (12 task orders, $671 thousand combined potential value) and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG84M8B177164 (10 task orders, $178 thousand combined potential value). Awards show a consistent pattern of small to mid-range delivery orders ($10,000 to $160,000) across multiple regional contracts, reflecting the Forest Service's distributed procurement of equipment on an incident-response basis. Of 83 total awards, approximately 37 delivery orders and purchase orders issued in 2026 alone carry ultimate completion dates between August and October 2026, indicating seasonal concentration of active task order deployment during peak fire season and a recompete profile tied to annual VIPR solicitation cycles. The 38% obligated-to-potential ratio suggests ongoing activity or orders awaiting invoicing.