Big Sky Busing Inc.

Big Sky Busing Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Boise, Idaho, provides crew carrier bus and shuttle transportation services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center exclusively as a prime contractor under total small-business set-asides. The company competes entirely on small-business set-aside vehicles and holds no subcontracting relationships; it operates as a specialized transportation provider for federal wildland fire management and forest conservation operations across western regions including Montana, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, California, Washington, and Idaho.

Big Sky Busing's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), which accounts for 50 awards and $4.1 million in combined potential value — approximately 63% of the vendor's total award footprint. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service regional offices form the secondary tier: Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) has placed 32 awards valued at $539 thousand, Region 3 (Southwestern Region) 18 awards at $282 thousand, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) 6 awards at $89 thousand, and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) 5 awards at $118 thousand. The top five customer entities account for 76% of recent awards and 94% of combined potential value. The vendor also holds relationships with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington (9 awards, $45 thousand) and miscellaneous Forest Service Idaho Region purchase orders.

Big Sky Busing holds two primary indefinite-delivery contract vehicles: an IDIQ awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on February 6, 2026, with a $1 million ceiling running through May 31, 2028 (a total small-business set-aside multiple-award vehicle), and an earlier $250,000 IDIC from the USDA Forest Service awarded May 31, 2023, also through May 2028. These vehicles underpin the vendor's task-order pipeline. The largest vehicles by task-order volume are IDICs 12024B23T7010 (36 task orders, $560 thousand), 12024B18T7002 (33 task orders, $737 thousand), and BPA AG024BB147009 (29 task orders, $1.1 million). Representative work includes a $15,236 delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) for crew transportation in Durango, Colorado (August 2, 2026), a $26,892 delivery order from Region 4 for services in Price, Utah (August 6, 2026), a $25,657 delivery order from Region 6 for Wenatchee, Washington services (October 9, 2025), and a $38,000 delivery order from Region 5 for Clovis, California services (September 1, 2025). All awards are firm fixed-price delivery orders with completion windows typically one to three weeks.

Activity has been consistent and cyclical: 18 awards in 2022, declining to 13 in 2023 and 10 in 2024, then recovering to 11 in 2025 and 17 in 2026. The combined potential value across 151 prime awards is $6.5 million, with $6 million obligated (93% execution rate). The vendor's classification sits under primary NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 139 of 151 awards assigned to that code; secondary codes reflect occasional equipment rentals. The PSC coding is dominated by Natural Resources/Conservation fire suppression and presuppression services (123 awards), with a small secondary volume in equipment rental PSCs. Big Sky Busing operates without subcontractors and does not appear on any government-wide acquisition contracts or schedule vehicles; its entire footprint is task-order execution against small-business-set-aside IDICs and BPAs issued by regional Forest Service offices and the National Interagency Fire Center for seasonal and incident-response wildfire transportation needs.