Bento Bros. Water Trucking

Bento Bros. Water Trucking is a sole proprietorship registered in SAM.gov as a for-profit entity. It provides water tender and water handling services to support wildland firefighting operations and all-hazard incident response efforts on federal lands, primarily for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Bento Bros. Water Trucking has received prime federal contract awards from the USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center. In one instance, it was awarded a $6,891.56 firm fixed price delivery order in October 2021 to provide Type 2 water tender services in Albuquerque, New Mexico to aid wildland fire management operations, with no set-aside designation applied. The company has also been awarded multiple indefinite delivery contracts by the Forest Service to furnish water handling equipment, supplies, transportation, lodging, personnel, and management across various regions. These IDCs have included small business set-asides and were solicited through the Virtual Incident Procurement system.

Bento Bros. Water Trucking currently holds two active multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts awarded by the USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management. One IDC has a potential value of $250,000 to provide water handling services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incidents in Forest Service regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 through June 2025. The other IDC, valued at $250,000, was awarded in May 2020 to supply Type 2 water tenders under a small business set-aside for water handling support in Forest Service Region 5, encompassing California. Both vehicles allow the Forest Service to issue task orders procuring Bento Bros.' services on a firm-fixed price basis to meet critical wildland firefighting and emergency response requirements.