Baseline Emergency Solutions LLC

Baseline Emergency Solutions LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and wholly owned subsidiary of Fire & Ice Holdings, Inc., provides incident support meals, mobile food service operations, helicopter operations support, and mobile communications units to the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations. The Sacramento, California-based limited liability company structures all work on firm fixed-price terms with economic price adjustment where applicable, and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides across its prime footprint.

Baseline's customer concentration centers on wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response through the Forest Service. The top five customers by award count account for 95% of recent awards, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its subordinate components—the National Interagency Fire Center (8 awards, $23.9 million combined potential value), the Forest Service overall (15 awards, $4.6 million), and the Pacific Southwest Region (10 awards, $1.2 million)—with the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (2 awards, $2 million) anchoring supplementary food-service work. The potential-value ranking surfaces a material concentration signal: the National Interagency Fire Center dominates dollars ($23.9 million of $33 million total, or 72% of combined potential value) through the $15 million National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 parent IDC, while regional Forest Service offices place many smaller delivery orders. Representative prime work includes a $6.9 million delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center awarded June 8, 2026, to establish designated dispatch points for national mobile food service unit support through December 31, 2030; a $1.32 million delivery order from the Forest Service awarded August 11, 2026, for incident support meals and mobile food service operations in Hoopa, California; a $1.05 million purchase order from the Intermountain Region awarded September 8, 2024, for mobile food service units including lava field kitchen equipment; and a pair of total small business set-aside definitive contracts from Customs and Border Protection awarded September 29, 2023, for food services to the Border Patrol Tucson Sector in Nogales and Sonoita, Arizona, valued at approximately $989 thousand and $988 thousand respectively.

Baseline holds seat on seven active indefinite delivery contracts, all set aside for total small business. The Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 parent IDC carries 9 task orders and $11.6 million combined potential value and represents the single highest-value vehicle. Four additional IDCs under the National Interagency Fire Center—each valued at $250 thousand to $500 thousand and titled for helicopter operations support (two contracts), mobile communications units, and incident support meals—collectively carry 17 task orders across multiple completion dates ranging through May 2029. A sixth small-dollar IDC with the Forest Service for southern California zone incident support meals carries a $250 thousand ceiling. These vehicles enable rapid call-down ordering by regional and national Forest Service offices during active fire seasons and all-hazard incident response.

Activity has grown substantially, rising from five awards in 2022 to thirteen in 2024, with ten awards recorded in 2026 year to date. Combined potential value stands at $33 million; combined obligated dollars total $9.9 million (30% of potential value), indicating early-stage draw-down against high-ceiling IDCs. The vendor faces concentrated recompete exposure: the $15 million National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDC runs through June 30, 2030, and eight lower-value IDCs expire between May 2024 and May 2029, creating rolling recompete windows. Baseline does not subcontract; all work is prime delivery. The award portfolio concentrates on two primary NAICS codes—Food Service Contractors (15 awards) and Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (10 awards)—and carries uniform PSC coding under Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (31 of 39 awards), signaling narrow capability focus and single-customer dependency on the Forest Service's fire-suppression mission.