Black Forest Wildland Suppression LLC

Black Forest Wildland Suppression LLC Mile High Wildland Suppression Division, operating from Colorado Springs, Colorado, provides wildland fire suppression personnel, equipment, and emergency medical response services to federal land management agencies as a woman-owned small disadvantaged business competing exclusively under total small business set-asides and full-and-open procurements. The vendor structures as a sole proprietorship limited liability company and operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract relationships across its federal footprint.

Black Forest's customer base concentrates almost entirely within the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and affiliated fire-management entities. Five distinct agencies account for 100% of recent awards, but the National Interagency Fire Center dominates both dollar value and platform positioning — accounting for $2 million combined potential value across five awards, primarily through multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts for ambulance services and water-handling resources. Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) ranks second by award count with six orders totaling $357 thousand in potential value, with Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) and the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management rounding out the active customer set. The concentration reflects Black Forest's core positioning in seasonal wildland fire response across federal forests and public lands in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific regions.

Black Forest holds positions on five active indefinite-delivery vehicles under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The two highest-activity vehicles are an indefinite-delivery contract (1202SB25T7844) for water handling services across Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 with a $500 thousand ceiling running through May 30, 2030, which has generated seven task orders totaling $291 thousand in potential value, and an indefinite-delivery contract (1202SB26T7448) for Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support ambulance services for Region 13 on a national basis with a $750 thousand ceiling running through May 8, 2030. Additional VIPR I-BPA vehicles carry $250 thousand ceilings each for water handling and ambulance services. Representative work includes a $116 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 for wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations in Chadron, Nebraska (June 2026), a $94.7 thousand order for incident-driven suppression support also in Chadron (July 2026), and purchase orders from Forest Service Idaho Region totaling $119.3 thousand for Type 3 engine procurement (June 2025).

Activity accelerated from five awards in 2025 to eleven in 2026, reflecting seasonal demand in the fire suppression cycle. Combined potential value across all sixteen prime awards stands at $2.6 million, with $551 thousand obligated as of the summary date. The vendor's work concentrates in NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) across 13 awards and Ambulance Services (NAICS 621910) across three awards, with principal service codes focused on forest-range fire suppression and presuppression. All work is delivered on firm fixed-price terms with performance windows tied directly to incident response and seasonal fire activity, reflecting the operational nature of federal wildland fire operations.