Archer Mountain Enterprises LLC

Archer Mountain Enterprises LLC, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Troy, Idaho, operates exclusively as a prime contractor supplying wildland firefighting equipment, trained personnel, and incident response resources to the U.S. Forest Service and related federal agencies under total small business set-asides. The vendor competes predominantly under small business set-asides across the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, holding multiple indefinite-delivery contract seats with ceilings of $250,000 to $750,000 across regional zones and specialized service lines (vehicle-with-driver, water handling, chipper equipment, fallers, and mechanic services).

Archer Mountain's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Forest Service fire management operations. The top five funding agencies account for 77 percent of recent awards by count and 86 percent by potential value, with the National Interagency Fire Center anchoring 45 awards valued at $9.9 million (roughly 51 percent of the vendor's combined potential value), followed by Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) with 82 awards at $2.5 million, Region 4 (Intermountain) with 36 awards at $2 million, and the Rocky Mountain Research Station with 20 awards at $1.3 million. Archer Mountain has no subcontracting footprint; all 262 awards across the portfolio are prime contracts.

The vendor's capability set is concrete and operationally specific: Type 3-6 wildland fire engines, Type 1-3 support and tactical water tenders, Type 1 chipper equipment with trained crews, vehicle-with-driver services with qualified operators, mechanic services with support trucks, and trained faller personnel. Recent representative awards include a $226,383.54 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) on August 13, 2024, for specialized vehicles and operators; a $164,275 order from the Intermountain Region on August 19, 2024, for engines, water tenders, and faller services; and a $67,900 order from Region 4 on June 27, 2026, for wildland firefighting and incident response resources. All delivery orders carry short performance windows (typically days to weeks) aligned to active fire seasons and emergency incidents.

Archer Mountain holds at least seventeen VIPR-managed indefinite-delivery contract vehicles, each designated as a total small business set-aside under firm fixed-price terms. The top-five parent vehicles by task-order count include IDC 1202SB22T7404 (23 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value), BPA AG04H1B177247 (21 task orders, $140 thousand), IDC 1202SB22T7183 (16 task orders, $1.1 million), IDC 1204H120T7012 (14 task orders, $155 thousand), and IDC 1284M819T7045 (13 task orders, $480 thousand). Specific vehicles include regional water handling IDCs for Regions 3, 5, 6, East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, 9), and West Zone (Regions 5, 6); chipper equipment vehicles for East and West zones; vehicle-with-driver contracts for Regions 1, 4, and West Zone; and fallers and mechanic services vehicles. These contracts extend through 2028–2031 and are managed by the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the Forest Service.

Activity trajectory shows modest growth year over year, averaging roughly 27 awards annually over the past five years (33 in 2022, declining to 14 in 2023, then rising to 31 in 2026). The vendor's portfolio spans 262 prime awards with a combined potential value of $19.5 million, of which $7.3 million (38 percent) has been obligated to date. The awards are concentrated in two NAICS categories: Support Activities for Forestry (179 awards) and All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (79 awards), with PSC coding dominated by Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (254 awards).

The vendor operates exclusively through the Forest Service's VIPR blanket purchase agreement framework, issuing no independent IDIQs or vehicle holdings. All work is performed as prime contractor on a firm fixed-price basis, with performance locations distributed across western and eastern Forest Service regions where incident response is required. No federal agencies outside the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and NIFC appear in the source data. Archer Mountain has maintained federal contracting relationships since at least 2012, with consistent year-round ordering activity indicating established status within the Forest Service's pre-positioned incident response infrastructure.

We specialize in fire suppression operations with the use of wildland fire engines, as well as other forestry support activities such as timber felling, hazard tree removal, and thinning services.