Bakken Robert

Bakken Robert, operating as Bakken Wildfires, is a Montana-based sole proprietorship that provides wildfire suppression equipment and personnel support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor specializes in water handling resources, type 6 fire engines, and trained personnel deployment for wildfire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed fire work across Forest Service regions.

Bakken Wildfires operates exclusively as a prime contractor on small business set-aside vehicles — 100% of its recent award footprint carries small business designations. The vendor holds three primary indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500,000 multiple-award IDC (awarded February 2026, completion May 2030) for water handling services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; a $250,000 multiple-award IDC (awarded May 2025, completion May 2030) covering the same regions; and a $250,000 small business set-aside IDC (awarded February 2023, completion May 2025) for East Zone regions including Region 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9. Task orders against these vehicles have carried values between $43,350 and $76,800, with firm fixed price structures. Recent representative work includes a $76,800 delivery order issued August 2026 to support the Forest Service's Northern Region (Region 1) wildfire operations, a $72,488.72 delivery order in July 2024 for the same region, and a $67,200 delivery order in August 2024 for water handling support.

Customer concentration is highly narrowed to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Forest Service accounts for 100% of the vendor's recent award potential value, split between the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center ($1 million across five awards) and Region 1 Northern Region ($699,000 across nine awards), with a single $31,000 award to Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region rounding out the portfolio. The vendor has worked with three distinct customer agencies across twenty-two total awards since 2004, though recent activity (2021 through 2026) shows two awards annually or fewer in most years.

Bakken Wildfires sits on Forest Service Blanket Purchase Agreements AG0343C078012 (four task orders) and AG0343B137093 (two task orders, $39,000 combined potential value), as well as Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB23T7015 (three task orders, $183,000) and IDC 12034319T7015 (two task orders, $30,000). All twenty-two awards fall under NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, reflecting singular operational focus. The vendor has obligated $528,000 against a combined potential value of $1.8 million across all awards — roughly 30% utilization — suggesting capacity or recent contract acceleration. The May 2025 expiration of a $250,000 IDC creates a recompete exposure window within the next twelve months.