Blue Moon Catering Inc.

Blue Moon Catering Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Washington, Utah, provides mobile food service units and catering support to USDA Forest Service wildland firefighting and emergency incident response operations as a 100% prime contractor across nineteen federal awards. The company operates on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint, competing primarily through direct purchase orders and task orders rather than through small-business set-aside vehicles despite its SDB certification.

Blue Moon Catering's customer base is entirely concentrated within the USDA Forest Service across regional fire centers. Seventeen of nineteen awards (89% of awards by count) flow through USDA Forest Service regional offices: Region 3 Southwestern (10 awards, $2.5 million combined potential value) leads by award volume, while Region 6 Pacific Northwest (3 awards, $2.8 million combined potential value) carries the largest potential-value concentration. The remaining two percent of potential value is split among Region 2 Rocky Mountain, the National Interagency Fire Center, and Region 1 Northern. This concentration reflects Blue Moon's specialization in a single federal customer's operational need.

The centerpiece of Blue Moon's federal work is a $7.5 million indefinite delivery contract (IDC 1202SC22T2007) with USDA Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center, awarded September 9, 2022, and running through May 31, 2032. This multiple-award blanket purchase agreement for "Call When Needed (CWN) Mobile Food Service Units (MFSU)" allows federal agencies to order catering services on an as-needed basis across the western contiguous United States. Blue Moon has placed four task orders under this vehicle carrying $2.6 million in combined potential value. Individual task orders draw on this parent contract to deliver hot and cold meals, sack lunches, and supplemental food items to support wildfire response and incident management personnel. Representative awards include an $948,257.25 GSA purchase order in August 2026 for mobile food service units supporting wildfire and emergency operations at BACKBONE and GRAND PARK 2 locations in the Pacific Northwest (completion September 1, 2026); a $793,317.50 delivery order in September 2024 for catering services at Arizona wildfire incident base AZTNF001594; and a $433,016.00 purchase order in July 2025 for food catering at the Laguna incident in New Mexico.

Activity has grown modestly year over year, from a single award in 2022 (the parent IDC) to six task orders in 2025 and four in 2026 to date. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $6 million against a combined potential value of $6.2 million (96% obligation rate). On SCI-reportable service contracts in FY2024, Blue Moon invoiced $2.4 million across 5.8 full-time equivalents, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from a tenth-percentile floor of $189.17 per hour to a 90th-percentile ceiling of $222.50 per hour and a median of $205.83 per hour — a pricing posture consistent with field catering and food service labor delivered to federal incident management operations. Blue Moon performs all delivery internally with zero subcontractor engagement across its SCI-reportable prime contracts.