Black Island LLC

Black Island LLC, a women-owned small business based in Bangor, Maine, supplies water handling equipment, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company competes exclusively under set-aside vehicles and has not held any parent contract vehicles (GWACs, schedules, or agency-wide IDIQs) prior to its recent awards.

Black Island's federal footprint is narrow and specialized. All six recent awards fund Forest Service fire and aviation management programs through the National Interagency Fire Center, representing 100% of the company's known customer concentration. Three of those awards are indefinite delivery contracts (IDIQs) issued under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system's Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement (I-BPA) structure, with combined ceiling values of $1.25 million across a four-year performance window extending through May 2030. The largest IDIQ, awarded February 6, 2026, carries a $750,000 ceiling and covers water handling services for East Zone Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; a second IDIQ awarded August 1, 2026, carries a $250,000 ceiling for Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region). A third IDIQ with a $250,000 ceiling covers East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 and was awarded May 30, 2025. Three delivery orders against the VIPR I-BPA structure have obligated $77,000 to date — a $37,973 order for Baker City, Oregon wildland fire support (July 2026), a $15,900 order for Reno, Nevada fire suppression (August 2026), and a $23,625 order for Clovis, California incident response (September 2025). These are short-duration tasking orders typical of incident-driven procurement, with completion dates measured in weeks.

Black Island holds primary NAICS 561710 (Support Activities for Forestry) and operates exclusively under the Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC code. Activity has accelerated from two awards in 2025 to four in 2026, though the company has obligated only $77,000 of its $1.3 million combined ceiling across all vehicles as of the source date, signaling early ramp on newly awarded IDIQs. The company operates as a women-owned small disadvantaged business and does not subcontract or carry sub-award work in the visible record. All awards are set-aside to total small business or competed without set-aside among full-and-open eligibility; the company does not appear on any multi-award GWAC, GSA Schedule, or government-wide vehicle outside the VIPR I-BPA structure.

Provides support and water transportation services. Specializes in providing water tenders of varrying sizes across the Western United States in support of fire suppression. Provide these services wet, with certified personal. Have ability to work in variety of fields and environments: constructions, disaster response, dust abatement, forestry etc.