Base Camp Aviation Llc.

Base Camp Aviation LLC, a sole proprietorship small business helicopter aviation services provider headquartered in McCall, Idaho, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering exclusive-use Type III helicopter flight services to federal wildland fire management and resource agencies under small-business set-aside indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements. The vendor holds four distinct federal vehicle positions totaling $44 million in combined ceiling value, all awarded in the past sixteen months, and competes predominantly under small-business set-asides (three of four vehicles) in support of seasonal fire suppression, initial attack operations, cargo transport, aerial surveillance, and resource management missions.

Base Camp Aviation's customer concentration reflects its specialization in federal wildland fire operations. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors 44 percent of the vendor's award count (4 awards, $22.1 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region (3 awards, $13.8 million) and the Interior Business Center's Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging of Animals and Wild Horse and Burro programs ($11 million single award). The Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region rounded out the portfolio with a $10 million single-award IDC. The two customer rankings track precisely—the same four agencies appear in identical dollar order across both count and potential-value tiers.

Base Camp Aviation holds a $12 million total-small-business IDC with BIA Rocky Mountain Region (April 2030 expiration) under which two task orders totaling $1.8 million have been issued for consecutive 2025 and 2026 fire seasons (delivery order dated April 8, 2025, for $939,957.64 through December 31, 2025, and delivery order dated March 23, 2026, for $882,500 through September 17, 2026, based in Billings, Montana). A $10 million total-small-business single-award IDC with BIA Navajo Region for exclusive-use Type III helicopter services at Window Rock, Arizona, was awarded May 14, 2026, through May 13, 2031. An $11 million single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Interior Business Center for on-call Type III helicopter services supporting animal capture and wild horse and burro programs across the Lower 48 States runs May 1, 2025, through April 30, 2030. Base Camp Aviation also holds a $21 million multiple-award HSS MATOC Type 3 indefinite delivery contract with the National Interagency Fire Center (February 9, 2026, through December 31, 2032) awarded without set-aside designation.

Activity accelerated recently, with one award in 2019, two in 2022, and six awards (three delivery orders and three IDV vehicles) in the past sixteen months. Combined potential value across all nine awards totals $57 million; however, only $2 million (3 percent) has been obligated to date, reflecting the vendor's emerging profile and the forward-loaded ceiling structure of multi-year vehicles. One delivery order valued at $883 thousand faces recompete within the next twenty-four months (September 17, 2026 completion date). Base Camp Aviation operates Type III helicopters equipped with five-passenger seats, 1,000-pound payload capacity, and turbine engines, and supplies pilot-in-command, relief pilots, and fuel service vehicles. All nine awards remain prime work; the vendor has no subcontract footprint in the source data.

Aerial construction, survey, firefighting, patrol,

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