Bledsoe Fire Contracting LLC

Bledsoe Fire Contracting LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Kimberly, Idaho, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, personnel, and water handling services to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center as a 100% prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company operates exclusively across NAICS 333113 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC F003 (Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), with no subcontract team.

Customer concentration is tightly focused on the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and interagency fire management. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors 75% of combined potential value ($750 thousand across two awards), with Forest Service regional operations in the Intermountain Region (Region 4), Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2), and Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) accounting for the remainder. All seven prime awards target fire suppression and emergency response operations, with performance across Utah, Colorado, Oregon, and Montana.

Bledsoe holds a position on a $500 thousand firm fixed-price Indefinite Delivery Contract (1202SB25T7904) awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on February 6, 2026, for water handling services to East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 running through May 30, 2030. This vehicle carries a Total Small Business set-aside and is structured as a multiple-award contract under the VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) I-BPA program. Four task orders have been issued against this IDC totaling $212 thousand in combined potential value, ranging from $4.8 thousand to $101.2 thousand per order. Recent representative work includes a $48.4 thousand Total Small Business delivery order from Forest Service Region 4 for fire-related services in Monroe, Utah (awarded June 28, 2026), a $39.6 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 for fire suppression services in Roseburg, Oregon (awarded July 31, 2026), and a $101.2 thousand open-competition delivery order from Region 4 for fire suppression support in Venice, Utah (awarded July 17, 2025).

Activity is emerging and volatile — four awards in 2025, three in 2026 year-to-date — with combined potential value of $1 million across all awards and $251 thousand obligated to date (25% burn rate). The vendor's footprint remains confined to Forest Service and interagency fire operations; no Department of Interior, National Park Service, or Bureau of Indian Affairs awards appear in the source, despite those agencies holding cooperative access rights to Bledsoe's VIPR I-BPA contract.