Avcenter, Inc.

Avcenter Inc., a small business based in Pocatello, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor (100% of awards) delivering aerial firefighting and specialized aviation services—air tanker operations, fire detection and mapping, retardant and water dropping, and on-call air attack flights—to federal land management agencies, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on delivery orders and IDIQs. The company holds a portfolio of 145 prime federal awards worth $166.1 million in combined potential value, with $36.6 million obligated to date.

Avcenter's customer base concentrates heavily on two agencies. The National Interagency Fire Center (Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) has awarded 35 contracts totaling $98.5 million combined potential value, and the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region has issued 23 awards worth $55.2 million combined potential value; together these two represent 63% of awards and 98% of combined potential dollars. The company also performs work for the Interior Business Center ($7.7 million across 10 awards), the Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region, and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Avcenter operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor engagement; across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, the vendor delivered zero sub-hours share.

Avcenter's largest parent vehicles are two total small business set-aside IDIQs established with the National Interagency Fire Center: a $57.11 million multiple-award contract for light fixed-wing aircraft services through December 31, 2033 (awarded January 1, 2024) and a $3 million single-award contract for aerial attack lightweight fixed-wing aircraft services nationally (awarded November 21, 2021, completion date February 9, 2024). A $22 million multiple-award BPA with the BLM Idaho Region for on-call air attack flight services runs through November 30, 2028 (awarded May 1, 2023). A $9 million single-award BPA with the BLM Idaho Region for air attack flight services in the Boise area extends through April 30, 2029 (awarded March 1, 2024). Task-order volume against these vehicles has been consistent: 19 orders against one BPA, 13 against a second IDC, 10 against a third BPA, 9 against a fourth IDC, and 8 against a legacy on-call vehicle. Recent delivery orders range from $3,801.60 to $6.08 million, awarded as recently as June 15, 2026 (the most recent award in the portfolio). All delivery orders are fixed-price with economic price adjustment provisions.

Awards per year have been volatile: 8 in 2022, 2 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 year-to-date. Only 10 awards (combined potential value $1.2 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete exposure in the near term; however, the large multiple-award IDIQs with NIFC and BLM—totaling $88.11 million in ceiling value—will face expiration and recompete consideration over the longer horizon (2028–2033). Category concentration reflects the vendor's specialized niche: 89 of 145 awards fall under nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (NAICS 481212), and 94 fall under the passenger air charter PSC; 33 awards map to forest-range fire suppression and presuppression, and 20 to nonscheduled chartered freight air transportation.

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $9.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $2.5 million; FY2023: $2 million; FY2024: $4.6 million). SCI workforce scale contracted from 2.4 FTEs in FY2022 to 1.1 FTEs in FY2024 across government-paid records. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $411.74/hr to a median of $696.96/hr, with senior labor pricing through $3,573.29/hr at the 90th percentile. Avcenter operates its own delivery teams with no subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable records; the average sub-hours share across prime contracts is zero percent.