Moose River, LLC

Moose River, LLC, doing business as Moose River, operates as a prime contractor providing wildland fire suppression equipment, hazard incident response services, and land management support to the U.S. Forest Service and interagency fire-response partners. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and limited liability partnership based in Libby, Montana, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite-delivery contracts issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Moose River's capability portfolio centers on prepositioned equipment and services for emergency wildfire response. The company operates weed washing units and chippers strategically located across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, and 4 in Montana and Idaho to enable rapid deployment during fire suppression and all-hazard incidents. Representative recent work includes a $12,600 delivery order from the Forest Service awarded August 8, 2026 (completing August 14, 2026) under a total small business set-aside for equipment staging in Kalispell, Montana; a $24,660 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 awarded August 31, 2025 for weed washing and decontamination services; and a $36,533 delivery order from the Forest Service awarded August 7, 2023 for equipment support services in Kalispell. The company also provides environmental decontamination and cleaning services for heavy equipment and industrial machinery used in fire suppression operations.

Customer concentration is tightly focused on the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top four agencies account for 88 percent of awards by count and 97 percent of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollars, accounting for seven awards with $2.3 million in combined potential value; Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) generates the highest award count at nine awards with $322 thousand combined potential value. Remaining activity is split between forest-service offices at headquarters and a single Army Corps of Engineers order worth $46 thousand.

Moose River holds multiple small business set-aside indefinite-delivery contracts through VIPR, each with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 and ultimate completion dates extending through 2030. Four active VIPR IDCs account for the bulk of Moose River's parent-vehicle footprint: a $500,000 weed-washing-units IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026 (expiring May 22, 2030); a $500,000 chippers IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026 (expiring May 30, 2029); a $250,000 water-handling IDIQ awarded July 30, 2026 (expiring July 31, 2030); and a $250,000 weed-washing-units IDIQ awarded May 22, 2025 (expiring May 22, 2030). These contracts make Moose River available to the Forest Service, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs for ordering.

Activity contracted sharply from six awards in 2022 to one award in 2024, recovering slightly to two awards in 2025 and four in 2026. Recent awards show a shift toward higher-ceiling IDIQ vehicles issued in 2025–2026 relative to older delivery orders. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Primary NAICS classification is Support Activities for Forestry (23 awards), with natural resources and forest-range fire suppression/presuppression as the dominant PSC coding (22 awards). Combined potential value across all awards stands at $2.8 million, with $556 thousand obligated, indicating modest invoicing velocity against available ceiling capacity.