Apexheli Oregon Inc.

Apexheli Oregon Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Florence, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor providing Type III helicopter flight services and aerial survey operations to civilian federal land management agencies, with 100% of recent awards positioned as prime contracts and 84% of award count concentrated across four Interior and Forest Service customer entities. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation classified under NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) and PSC V199 (other aircraft services), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on blanket purchase agreements and delivery orders while holding full-and-open multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with ceilings totaling $97.5 million.

Apexheli's capability footprint centers on wildfire suppression, initial attack, prescribed burn support, short-haul and rappel operations, and aerial census flights for wild horse and burro population management. Representative prime work includes a $30 million multiple-award IDC awarded April 12, 2023 by the National Interagency Fire Center (USDA Forest Service) running through December 2032 for Type 3 helicopter support services, against which the vendor has placed two delivery orders totaling $513 thousand for wildfire operations in 2024; a $49.5 million multiple-award IDC awarded May 1, 2022 by the Interior Business Center (Department of the Interior) set aside for total small business through April 2027 for on-call Type III helicopter flight services across the continental United States; and an $11 million single-award BPA awarded May 1, 2025 by the Interior Business Center, also set aside for total small business through April 2030, for Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging (ACETA) and Wild Horse and Burro program support. BPA call activity under these vehicles includes a $82 thousand June 2026 award from BLM California Region for 2026 Northern California wild horse and burro aerial surveys (completion July 15, 2026), a $29.1 thousand August 2025 award from the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a Warm Springs Reservation feral horse survey (completion January 31, 2026), and multiple wild horse census calls from BLM's California and Nevada regions totaling $161 thousand in 2024.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Interior Department bureaus and the Forest Service. The Interior Business Center and the Office of Policy Management and Budget together anchor 111 million dollars (74% of combined potential value) across four awards, while the National Interagency Fire Center (USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) represents six awards and $38.4 million in combined potential value. BLM's California and Oregon-Washington regions account for six awards but only $280 thousand in combined potential value, reflecting smaller per-order call structures. The two rankings diverge meaningfully — Interior Business Center dominates potential value through its large IDV ceilings, while National Interagency Fire Center drives award count through repeated task order issuance.

Activity trended upward from two awards in 2023 to six in 2024, followed by two awards in 2025 and one in 2026 year to date, reflecting sporadic call-based ordering patterns typical of helicopter services. Two awards carrying $513 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Across its four parent vehicles — the $30 million NIFC Type 3 IDC (2 task orders), the $49.5 million Interior Business Center on-call IDC, and two single-award Interior Business Center BPAs — Apexheli does not subcontract; all work is performed in-house using company-operated and FAA-certified aircraft based in Florence, Oregon and deployed to job sites throughout the continental United States and at specific installations including Susanville, California; Warm Springs, Oregon; and Cedarville, California.