Benlin Wildland LLC

Benlin Wildland LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Bayfield, Colorado, provides wildland fire suppression equipment rentals and emergency-response services exclusively to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor competes entirely as a prime; all 106 recent awards are prime contracts or IDIQs with no subcontract footprint.

Benlin's concrete capability set centers on rapid-deployment heavy equipment for fire suppression: water tenders, skidgines, softtrack units, pumper trucks, dozers, excavators, and related water-handling equipment for federal fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. The vendor operates exclusively under NAICS 541720 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC 943 (Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). Representative recent work includes a $363,600 delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) in June 2025 for wildland fire management equipment and services in Durango, Colorado, a $166,640 delivery order from Region 2 in May 2026 for the same scope, and a $117,782 delivery order from Region 2 in August 2026 for rapid-response fire suppression deployment, all firm fixed-price with performance windows of days to weeks reflecting incident-response dispatch patterns.

Customer concentration is extreme and regional. The top two funding entities account for approximately 99% of recent awards by count: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) holds 69 awards totaling $3.2 million combined potential value, and the National Interagency Fire Center (the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management program office) holds 21 awards totaling $4.7 million. Region 4 (Intermountain Region) and Region 3 (Southwestern Region) account for the remainder. By potential value, the Interagency Fire Center leads slightly at $4.7 million against Region 2's $3.2 million, reflecting the larger ceiling values on the IDIQs managed through the center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Benlin's vehicle footprint consists entirely of Forest Service IDIQs and BPAs under the VIPR Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement structure. The vendor holds nine active IDIQs awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center between May 2022 and February 2026, all designated as total small business set-asides with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, running through 2029–2030. These cover heavy equipment with water for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; water handling services for the same regions; and miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders) for Regions 1, 2, and 4. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count are IDCs 1202SB22T7139 (18 orders, $771 thousand), 1282X919T7004 (16 orders, $943 thousand), BPA AG82X9B167008 (13 orders, $364 thousand), IDC 1202SB22T7194 (12 orders, $220 thousand), and IDC 1202SB25T7448 (10 orders, $961 thousand). Delivery orders flow from individual Forest Service regions (Regions 2, 3, 4) against these centrally held vehicles, with orders ranging from $3,950 to $363,600 on firm fixed-price terms.

Activity has grown sharply in 2026, with 19 awards year-to-date (as of mid-September) compared to 7 in 2025, 13 in 2024, and 14 in 2023. The vendor faces concentrated recompete exposure: multiple IDIQs expire through 2030, with the earliest vehicles completing by May 2025 already elapsed. The combined potential value of the nine held IDIQs is approximately $4.75 million against $3.5 million obligated through June 2026, representing unfilled capacity on vehicles critical to the vendor's sole customer relationship. All awards are performance in the Rocky Mountain and Southwestern regions, with primary bases in Durango, Colorado and Monroe, Utah.