Av8-Orr Helicopter Services Inc.

Av8-Orr Helicopter Services Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Hamilton, Montana, operates exclusively as a prime contractor providing helicopter-based wildfire suppression, aerial herbicide and seed application, equipment transport, and natural resource management services to federal land management agencies. The company is a Subchapter S corporation with no recorded subcontract activity; all 123 awards in the source data are prime contracts or IDVs.

Av8-Orr's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management division at the National Interagency Fire Center, which accounts for 67 awards and $100.8 million in combined potential value—57% of the vendor's total portfolio. The remaining active customer agencies include the Forest Service's Regional Offices (R1-Northern Region with 23 awards valued at $3.5 million and R4-Intermountain Region with 10 awards valued at $8.6 million), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Interior Business Center. By potential value, the top three customers represent 99% of the combined portfolio: NIFC ($100.8 million), the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions ($50 million from the newly awarded Land Management Integrated Resources BPA), and the Department of the Interior Interior Business Center ($11 million for animal capture and wild horse management). This concentration around NIFC masks a critical shift in vehicle holdings: the combined potential value of the top five customers by count ($113.3 million) falls well short of the $161 million seated on the two new large IDVs awarded in 2025.

Av8-Orr holds a portfolio of named vehicle positions across multiple federal agencies. The $50 million Helicopter Support Services - Type 2 IDIQ with NIFC (effective through December 2033) has generated 32 task orders totaling $4.6 million in combined potential value as of the snapshot; this vehicle has been the workhorse of the portfolio, with delivery orders ranging from $6,500 to $226,846. The vendor also seats a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded by USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions on July 9, 2025, covering project management, natural resources restoration, and helicopter-based services across all federal agencies through March 2033. Additionally, Av8-Orr holds an $11 million Department of the Interior BPA for Type III helicopter flight services supporting animal capture, eradication, and wild horse management programs (May 2025 through April 2030, with a possible 6-month extension). A $10 million Type 3 Helicopter Support Services IDIQ with NIFC (April 2023 through December 2032) and a $2 million Forest Service Intermountain Region contract for helicopter-based aerial application services (set aside for Total Small Business, September 2022 through August 2027) round out the primary vehicle holdings. Av8-Orr also participates in a Forest Service R1-Northern Region single-award contract for $999,999.99 (Total Small Business set-aside, expired May 31, 2024) that addressed aerial herbicide application across multiple national forests.

Activity has remained stable, with 18 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 19 in 2024, and 17 in 2025; only 5 awards have been recorded in 2026 year to date (through June 19). Over the next twenty-four months, only 4 awards with combined potential value of $258 thousand face ultimate completion and recompete, indicating a relatively light near-term recompete cliff. However, the two large IDVs awarded in mid-2025 have yet to generate significant task-order volume, suggesting the portfolio is in an early-execution phase on those vehicles.

Av8-Orr competes entirely in the full-and-open marketplace; while several of its IDVs and delivery orders carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, the company's prime awards span both set-aside and unrestricted vehicles. The vendor's work is concentrated in two primary PSC categories: Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (68 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation–Aerial Fertilization/Spraying (27 awards). NAICS distribution is similarly narrow: 64 awards fall under Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation and 31 under Support Activities for Forestry. Work is performed out of Hamilton, Montana, with place-of-performance extension to western Forest Service regional offices and Department of the Interior sites across the Lower 48 States. The $14.7 million in combined obligated dollars against $175 million in potential value reflects a typical delivery-order profile: many low-value, short-duration orders placed over several years against high-ceiling IDVs.