Big Sky Mobile Catering Corp

Big Sky Mobile Catering Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Missoula, Montana, delivers mobile food service operations to the USDA Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside vehicles, operating 100% of its federal footprint as a direct prime rather than through subcontractor arrangements.

The vendor specializes in rapid deployment of fully equipped mobile kitchen units to remote wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and emergency preparedness operations across the western United States. Concrete work includes fixed-price delivery orders for meal preparation, planning, and delivery of hot and cold meals, snacks, and provisions to wildland firefighters, incident management teams, and emergency personnel operating in remote and challenging field environments. Representative awards include a $6.1 million delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center awarded May 24, 2026, for designated dispatch-point support through the Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDIQ; a $2.9 million delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded September 7, 2025, supporting mobile catering through December 31, 2025; and a $3.9 million delivery order for the Devils Knob Complex incident response in Boise, Idaho, awarded August 5, 2021.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 80 awards and $278.2 million in combined potential value—approximately 82% of all awards and 82% of total potential value across the portfolio. The broader USDA Forest Service ecosystem (including regional offices across the Northern, Pacific Northwest, Southwestern, and Intermountain regions) accounts for 94 awards totaling $57.7 million. The vendor serves 12 distinct federal agencies in the source data, but non-Forest Service exposure is negligible.

Big Sky Mobile Catering Corp holds two primary parent vehicles. The Indefinite Delivery Contract 12024B20T2504 (awarded June 2020, running through December 31, 2024) carried 167 task orders valued at $59.9 million combined potential value before expiration. The Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDIQ (awarded July 1, 2025, as a multiple-award total small business set-aside with a $60 million ceiling, extending through December 31, 2029) carries 12 task orders to date valued at $17.2 million combined potential value. Both vehicles employ a two-phase structure awarding parent contracts to technically acceptable and reasonably priced offerors, with individual task orders selected through a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable evaluation process.

Activity has declined from a peak of 53 awards in 2023 to 30 awards in 2024 and 18 awards in 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date. This trajectory reflects expiration of the prior 2020–2024 IDV and transition to the new 2025–2029 vehicle; the prior contract's ultimate completion window (through December 31, 2024) created a concentrated recompete cliff. The vendor faced $59.9 million in combined potential value from awards completing through the prior IDV.

Service Contract Inventory data captures a narrower slice: across SCI-reportable federal service contracts from FY2023 through FY2024, the vendor invoiced $21.3 million (FY2023: $10.3 million; FY2024: $11 million), with an FTE workforce of 26.4 in FY2023 and 31.6 in FY2024. SCI records show zero subcontractor engagement across the sampled prime contracts, meaning Big Sky delivered all labor directly. Government-paid rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $100.69 per hour to a median of $192.31 per hour and 90th percentile of $324.58 per hour, consistent with catering operations spanning entry-level food preparation through senior management and logistics roles.

Big Sky Mobile Catering Corp has held a continuous relationship with the USDA Forest Service since SAM.gov registration in 2003 and operates exclusively within the federal wildland fire and disaster relief market as a total small business set-aside contractor. The vendor competes exclusively under small business set-aside vehicles and holds no full-and-open federal contracts in the source data.