Bush Fire Services Inc.

Bush Fire Services Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in London, Kentucky, provides 44-passenger bus rentals (air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned), mobile shower facilities, and wildland fire support logistics to federal agencies as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides and unrestricted vehicles. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation that competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides, particularly on Army and Forest Service vehicles, though an increasing share of recent Forest Service delivery orders carry no set-aside designation.

Bush Fire Services operates across two principal capability portfolios. The first is ground transportation: the company rents 44-passenger school-type diesel buses at daily rates of $115 per non-air-conditioned unit and $135 per air-conditioned unit, typically in multi-week mobilizations supporting military training, recruiting operations, and personnel movement at Fort Knox and other Army installations. The second is wildland fire and emergency response infrastructure: the company deploys mobile shower facilities, temporary sanitation systems, incident command post support, and related logistics to remote fire camps and disaster sites across the western United States. Representative examples include a $62,100 delivery order (July 2026) from Army Recruiting Command for ten air-conditioned bus rentals at Fort Knox over 46 days, a $103,630 delivery order (July 2026) from Forest Service Region 4 for wildland fire support at Nespelem, Washington, and a $239,860 delivery order (August 2024) from Forest Service for wildland fire incident management in Washington State.

Customer concentration is pronounced and bifurcated by dollar value. The top five agencies account for 86% of award count and 91% of potential value. The Army Sustainment Command anchors the portfolio by count—321 awards totaling $24.2 million potential value—driven by recurring short-duration bus rental calls against the company's $7.115 million single-award IDC (awarded November 2022, running through October 2027). The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by potential value—91 awards totaling $35 million—concentrated in the company's flagship $23.5 million multiple-award IDC for national mobile shower facilities (awarded April 2024, through December 2028). Indiana Army National Guard ranks third by count (158 awards, $14.4 million), executing BPA calls and purchase orders for bus rentals and shower unit rentals at training events. Army Recruiting Command and the civilian Forest Service round out the top five but trail significantly. The mismatch between count and value rankings reflects the Forest Service IDC's large ceiling value generating fewer, higher-value task orders, while Army bus rentals generate volume through many small daily rental calls.

Bush Fire Services holds four primary parent vehicles. The $23.5 million Forest Service IDC for mobile shower facilities (Total Small Business multiple-award, through December 2028) has spawned over 40 delivery orders since April 2024 ranging from $6,000 to $240,000 each, covering performance locations across California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Nevada. The $7.115 million Army Sustainment Command single-award IDC for 44-passenger buses (Total Small Business, through October 2027) has generated over 40 delivery orders since November 2022, all priced at the daily rate schedule with individual orders typically $1,600 to $68,000. The company also holds a $250,000 call-when-needed IDC with the National Interagency Fire Center for mobile shower units (through April 2031, no set-aside) and placement on GSA's Multiple Award Schedule for short-term motor vehicle rental (used for small orders, e.g., $20,000 to $70,000 each, completing in 6–8 weeks). A single Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service for call-when-needed shower facilities (through April 2031, no ceiling specified) provides an additional fallback channel for emergency deployments.

Activity has remained stable at 40–43 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), reflecting consistent demand for transportation and wildfire support services. The awards-per-year trajectory shows no growth inflection; the vendor is capturing routine market volume rather than expanding share. No material recompete cliff is evident in the near term; the primary IDVs (Forest Service $23.5M and Army $7.115M) do not expire until 2028 and 2027 respectively, giving the vendor a 1.5 to 2-year runway before recompete activity. The $250,000 National Interagency Fire Center IDC and Forest Service BPA both extend to April 2031, well beyond the current window. Bush Fire Services operates entirely as a prime contractor—736 awards, 100% prime—with no disclosed subcontract footprint, indicating the company performs work in-house rather than acting as a teaming partner or intermediary.

Competitive posture skews heavily toward small business set-asides. The two largest IDVs (Forest Service $23.5M and Army $7.115M) are both designated Total Small Business set-asides, protecting the work from full-and-open competition. A minority of Forest Service delivery orders in the August 2025–August 2026 cohort carry no set-aside designation, suggesting gradual opening of portions of the Forest Service vehicle to unrestricted competition; however, the Army Sustainment Command vehicle and Indiana National Guard orders remain set-aside-only, locking in the vendor's core Fort Knox transportation franchise. The company's self-certified small disadvantaged business status is the enabling credential across this portfolio. GSA MAS and the Forest Service call-when-needed vehicle are unrestricted, but they collectively represent a small share of total value and activity.

Bush Fire Services generated $86.4 million in combined potential value across 736 awards in the source data, with $26.1 million obligated (30% burn rate). The potential-value-to-obligated ratio suggests the vendor is executing task orders from large ceiling vehicles rather than securing new contract awards; most of the $86.4M represents unexercised IDC capacity. The vendor's geographic footprint spans the continental western United States for wildfire work (California through Montana) and Kentucky for Army transportation, reflecting the regional distribution of Forest Service wildfire demand and the concentration of Army training at Fort Knox. Primary NAICS categories are truck and utility trailer rental (451 awards) and support activities for forestry (169 awards), consistent with the dual bus-and-shower business model. PSC codes reflect Passenger Motor Vehicles (325 awards), natural resources forest-fire suppression (170 awards), and equipment lease-rental (179 awards).

portable showers, decontamination showers, buses/transportation, building leasing & Construction