Calderon Forest Services LLC

Calderon Forest Services LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Caldwell, Idaho, provides wildland firefighting support, vegetation control, and all-hazard incident response services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates as a for-profit limited liability company and competes entirely within set-aside vehicles, holding no full-and-open federal awards.

Calderon's federal footprint concentrates heavily on a single parent vehicle: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC21T2407, a $30 million national Type 2 wildland firefighting crews and forestry services IDV, which anchors 22 task orders (combined potential value $3.5 million) across Forest Service regions. The company holds two additional smaller IDVs — Contracts AG04H1B179737 and AG04H1B179738 — each carrying eight task orders worth roughly $624 thousand and $795 thousand respectively. All 43 awards in the source are delivery orders under one of these three parent IDVs. Capability work spans vegetation management, trail maintenance, fuels reduction, and Type 2 wildland firefighting crew services, with recent representative awards including a $465,930 delivery order (August 4, 2026) from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) for fire and all-hazard response in Baker City, Oregon; a $239,071 order (August 4, 2026) from the Forest Service for fire response in Vale, Oregon; and a $239,166 delivery order (October 11, 2024) from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain) for forestry and land management services in the Boise area.

Customer concentration is acute and regional. Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) dominates award count with 19 orders totaling $2.3 million in potential value, followed by Region 4 (Intermountain) with seven awards and $1.2 million, Region 3 (Southwestern) with six awards and $680 thousand, and Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) with two awards and $338 thousand. A single national Fire and Aviation Management award (valued at $30 million) comprises 85% of combined potential value across the portfolio, representing the underlying IDV authority from which regional task orders flow. All work is performed across Western states — Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona — consistent with Forest Service fire and fuels-reduction operations.

Activity peaked in 2022 (nine awards) and has moderated to three awards in 2024 and five in 2026. Only five awards (combined potential value $981 thousand) face recompete within the next twenty-four months. All 43 awards are delivery orders under small-business-set-aside IDVs; 14 percent of combined potential value has been obligated across the portfolio, indicating the awards remain largely unexecuted or are in early execution phases.