Basin Water Tenders LLC

Basin Water Tenders LLC, a small business based in Klamath Falls, Oregon, provides water tender vehicles, equipment, and certified personnel for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor operating exclusively under total small business set-asides. The limited liability company competes solely on federal set-aside vehicles and holds no full-and-open awards in its recent portfolio.

Basin Water Tenders' customer footprint is entirely concentrated within the Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service accounts for 100% of recent awards across four distinct organizational units: the National Interagency Fire Center (7 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value), Region 6 Pacific Northwest (9 awards, $425 thousand combined potential value), Region 5 Pacific Southwest (2 awards, $28 thousand combined potential value), and the parent Forest Service organization (2 awards, $36 thousand combined potential value). The National Interagency Fire Center dominates by dollars despite Region 6's volume advantage, driven by five IDC positions the vendor holds under multiple-award Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement vehicles. Basin Water Tenders' work falls entirely within NAICS 113113 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.

Basin Water Tenders holds six active indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center and the Forest Service, all structured as total small business set-aside Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements. The largest vehicles are a $500 thousand water-handling IDC for Region 6 (awarded February 2026, expiring May 2030) and three $250 thousand vehicle-with-driver I-BPAs covering Regions 3, 5, and 6 in the West Zone (awarded June 2022, February 2026, and August 2026, running through June 2028 and August 2031). These IDCs enable expedited task-order issuance for time-critical wildfire response. Recent delivery orders include $26.3 thousand for water tenders at Lakeview, Oregon (August 2026, Region 6), $13.2 thousand for John Day, Oregon operations (July 2026, Region 6), and $24.9 thousand for Lakeview-based water tender services (September 2023, Region 6).

Activity has grown in 2026 (6 awards year-to-date) after a slower 2024–2025 period (2 awards per year). The vendor's combined potential value across all twenty awards stands at $2.3 million, with $268 thousand obligated to date (12% realization). Basin Water Tenders holds no subcontractor positions and operates no teaming arrangements in the available source data.