Aqua Hauler, LLC

Aqua Hauler, LLC, a Native American-owned limited liability company based in Browning, Montana, provides water handling services for wildfire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed burns to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates across four federal awards — two indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center and two delivery orders placed by the Forest Service — with combined potential value of $809 thousand and $59 thousand in dollars obligated as of the award date.

Aqua Hauler's entire footprint sits with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) anchors $750 thousand in combined potential value across two multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts: a $500 thousand vehicle awarded February 6, 2026, and a $250 thousand vehicle awarded May 30, 2025, both running through May 30, 2030. Both contracts authorize water handling services — equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel — across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, with dispatch and deployment driven by resource location to enable rapid emergency response. Orders flow through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system as incident blanket purchase agreements, with pricing based on firm fixed-price rates accommodating up to 16-hour daily shifts. The Forest Service issued two spot delivery orders in August 2026 — one on August 5, 2026, for $31,918, and another on August 24, 2026, for $27,500 — both placed of performance in Kalispell, Montana, under the same Total Small Business set-aside designation. Optional interagency use extends to the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Aqua Hauler operates solely as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Award activity sits at one award in 2025 and three in 2026, with all four awards concentrated under NAICS 541700 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Z1 (Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). The vendor holds no government-wide acquisition contracts, agency-wide IDIQs, or cross-agency parent vehicles; all authority flows through Forest Service regional fire management procurement.