Buscher Engines, Inc.

Buscher Engines, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Sheridan, Oregon, supplies engines, specialized fire-suppression equipment, water-handling apparatus, and related vehicles to federal wildland fire management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The company competes predominantly under small-business set-asides; across 89 recent awards with combined potential value of $4.4 million and $3.1 million obligated, 100% are prime awards with no subcontract footprint.

Buscher Engines' customer base concentrates heavily in wildfire response across the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. The top five customer entities account for 74% of recent awards and 71% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center (a Forest Service component) anchors the customer set by dollar volume at $1.2 million across 7 awards; the Forest Service's Intermountain Region (Region 4) places 14 awards valued at $623 thousand; and the Bureau of Land Management's Idaho Region accounts for 20 awards at $620 thousand combined potential value. The Nevada Region of BLM follows at 19 awards, $236 thousand. The Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station rounds the top-five at $455 thousand across 6 awards.

The company's capability footprint, derived from award history spanning 2001 to August 2026, centers on Type 3, Type 5, and Type 6 fire engines; water tenders and support vehicles; parts and maintenance services; and water-handling equipment. Recent representative work includes a $135 thousand delivery order from the Intermountain Region awarded July 27, 2025, for engines and vehicles supporting wildland fire suppression; an $83,200 delivery order from the same region on August 5, 2026, for fire-suppression equipment; a $78,480 September 2024 delivery order from Region 4 for engines and vehicles; and approximately $620 thousand in purchase orders from the Bureau of Land Management's Idaho Region for Type 3, Type 5, and Type 6 engines awarded June 1, 2025, each with completion by October 31, 2025. Buscher Engines also holds multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center: a $500 thousand multiple-award total small-business-set-aside IDIQ awarded February 6, 2026 (running through May 30, 2030) for water handling, engines, and parts supporting East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; a $250 thousand multiple-award total small-business-set-aside IDIQ awarded May 30, 2025; and a prior $250 thousand IDIQ awarded June 2, 2022 (completed May 30, 2025). The IDIQs utilize the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and permit optional use by the National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2025, rising from 8 awards in 2022 and 2 in 2023 to 22 in 2025. The trajectory reflects Buscher Engines' increasing incumbent role on wildfire-response vehicles. Four awards have been issued in 2026 to date. The NAICS concentration underscores the company's market position: 65 of 89 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 113390), with the remaining 24 split across equipment rental, fire protection, and related categories. Federal Procurement Data System coding aligns with this profile, with 43 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC code) and 20 under Fire Fighting Equipment.