Storm C Carpenter

Storm C Carpenter, doing business as Smokey The Cub, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in John Day, Oregon, that provides carpentry services, water handling equipment, and trained personnel support to federal wildland fire suppression and infrastructure maintenance programs as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The vendor competes entirely under total small business set-asides on its indefinite delivery contract vehicles and full-and-open on individual delivery orders and purchase orders issued against those vehicles.

Storm C Carpenter's customer base is concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service. The Forest Service accounts for 38 of 43 total awards, split between the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) with 28 awards valued at $894 thousand combined potential value and the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center with 10 awards valued at $1.1 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (Idaho Region and Oregon-Washington) accounts for the remaining four awards totaling $151 thousand. Within the Forest Service ecosystem, the vendor holds three parent indefinite delivery contracts: a $500,000 multiple-award VIPR I-BPA for Water Handling covering Region 6 (awarded February 2026 with performance through May 2030), a $250,000 multiple-award VIPR I-BPA for Water Handling covering Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 (awarded May 2025, originally awarded June 2022), and a predecessor $250,000 multiple-award VIPR I-BPA for the West Zone covering the same four-region footprint (awarded June 2022, expired June 2025). The vendor issues firm fixed-price delivery orders under these vehicles ranging from $2,680 to $62,550, with individual task orders typically completing within 30 to 60 days.

Capability work centers on water handling equipment provisioning (Engines Type 3, 4, 5, and 6; Support Water Tenders Type 1, 2, and 3; and Tactical Water Tenders Type 1 and 2), carpentry repairs for storm damage and infrastructure maintenance, and deploying trained personnel to support wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Recent representative awards include three July 2026 delivery orders from Forest Service Region 6 totaling $43,850 combined for water handling equipment and carpentry support in Baker City, Pendleton, and John Day, Oregon; three June 2025 purchase orders from the BLM Idaho Region totaling $143,100 for Type 2 support water tenders with performance in Boise, Idaho; and a September 2025 delivery order for $53,600 from Forest Service Region 6 for water handling equipment and personnel support in Wenatchee, Washington. Award activity has grown from five awards in 2022 to nine in 2025, with five awards issued year-to-date in 2026 (as of late July). Combined potential value across all 43 awards is $2.2 million, with $805 thousand obligated to date (37% burn-through). The vendor's award footprint aligns entirely with NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.