Blue Mountain Contracting, Inc.

Blue Mountain Contracting, Inc., a Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Central Point, Oregon, supplies Type 2 wildland fire crews and related land and natural resource management services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple regions as a prime contractor, competing exclusively in full and open (non-set-aside) delivery orders and task orders. The company operates across NAICS 332611 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with 130 prime federal awards totaling $206.2 million in combined potential value over the past five years.

Blue Mountain Contracting's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Forest Service. The top customer by award count is the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center, which accounts for 6 awards but dominates dollar value with $188 million in combined potential value—representing 91% of the vendor's total potential value. This concentration reflects the vendor's position on a large National Interagency Fire Center indefinite delivery contract. The five largest customer entities by count cover 85% of awards: Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest, 27 awards, $4.2 million), the general Forest Service category (26 awards, $3.3 million), Region 3 (Southwestern, 24 awards, $3.3 million), Region 6 (Pacific Northwest, 23 awards, $3.4 million), and Region 1 (Northern, 11 awards, $1.8 million). The dollar-value ranking surfaces the recompete exposure: the National Interagency Fire Center contract anchors most of the vendor's pipeline.

Blue Mountain holds its primary parent vehicle under contract number 1202SC21T2405, a Forest Service indefinite delivery contract, from which 127 task orders worth $18.4 million have been issued. In May 2024, the vendor also secured a $250,000 firm fixed-price multiple-award small business set-aside indefinite delivery contract from the National Interagency Fire Center for vegetation and invasive plant removal (VIPR) chipper crews and related wildland fire support services for Regions 5 and 6, running through May 2029. Work is performed across multiple Forest Service regions—the Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Northern, Intermountain, Rocky Mountain, and Southwestern regions—with places of performance including Boise, Durango, Helena, Porterville, Eureka, Yreka, Baker City, and other western locations.

Recent activity shows rapid growth. Awards increased from one in 2021 to 41 in 2022, peaked at 58 in 2024, then dropped to one award in 2025 (as of June)—a sharp contraction consistent with annual resolicitation cycles typical of Forest Service IDIQ vehicles. The vendor has obligated $18.5 million against its $206.2 million potential value (9% utilization), indicating substantial task order capacity. Representative delivery orders include a $503,758.66 order from the Pacific Northwest Region (August 2024), a $428,778.52 order from the Pacific Southwest Region (August 2023), and a $360,671.18 order from the Southwestern Region (April 2022), all for Type 2 wildland fire crew deployment, vegetation management, habitat restoration, and recreation infrastructure maintenance to support fire and aviation management programs across western states. The vendor does not carry sub-awards; all activity is prime work. The company competes on a full and open basis with no set-aside restrictions applied to individual delivery orders, despite its SDB designation, indicating strong competitive positioning in the wildland firefighting services market.