Brenda's Firewater, Inc.

Brenda's Firewater, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Ramona, California, supplies water handling equipment and trained, certified personnel for fire suppression and emergency response operations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside agreements. The vendor operates 100% as a prime on indefinite-delivery contracts and incident blanket purchase agreements, competing exclusively within the small-business set-aside category.

Brenda's Firewater specializes in wildfire and all-hazard response logistics, providing Type 3 and Type 6 engines and support water tenders in types 1, 2, and 3, along with personnel, transportation, and lodging for fire suppression operations. The vendor holds three active IDCs with the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system: a $250 thousand multiple-award contract awarded June 4, 2025, for water handling in Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) running through June 4, 2030; a prior $250 thousand contract awarded February 6, 2026, covering the same region and period; and an earlier $250 thousand contract awarded June 1, 2022, for water handling across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 (completed June 6, 2025). Work is ordered through incident blanket purchase agreements at daily shift rates covering up to 16-hour operational periods.

Customer concentration is narrow and vertical. The National Interagency Fire Center (a subdivision of the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management directorate) accounts for three awards and $750 thousand in combined potential value (78% of the portfolio), with the Federal Fire and Aviation Management program accounting for three awards at $168 thousand, and the Region 5 office accounting for five awards at $23 thousand. The top three customer entities account for 85% of awards by count and 98% of combined potential value. Combined potential value across all thirteen awards totals $960 thousand, with only $60 thousand obligated to date (6% of ceiling value). Activity is episodic: one award in 2022, one in 2025, and one in 2026; earlier awards span 2006–2017. Two blanket purchase agreements under the VIPR system carried 2 and 2 task orders respectively.