Ciais, Andre

Ciais, Andre, doing business as Northern Construction, is a HUBZone-certified veteran-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Republic, Washington (with Colville listed as an operational site), that delivers water handling equipment, water tender vehicles, and personnel support exclusively to the U.S. Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor under total small business set-aside Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response operations. The vendor competes entirely under set-asides — all recent activity sits within total small business reserved vehicles — and maintains no subcontractor relationships.

Northern Construction's capability footprint centers on Type 1, 2, and 3 water tender vehicles, water handling equipment rentals, and on-site personnel deployment for emergency response. Recent representative work includes a $50,986.71 firm fixed-price delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 on May 6, 2026, for water handling equipment and services at Wenatchee, Washington (ultimate completion June 25, 2026); a $190,992.31 delivery order from Forest Service on June 29, 2024, under contract WASES000173 for water handling support through October 2024; and multiple smaller orders in the $3,000–$65,000 range throughout 2024–2025 for incident-driven water supply and equipment delivery across the Pacific Northwest and Western U.S. Delivery orders are structured as firm fixed-price with performance windows typically ranging from two to thirty days, reflecting incident-driven demand patterns.

Customer concentration is extreme: 92% of 64 awards fund Forest Service Region 6 (42 awards, $989 thousand combined potential value) and the National Interagency Fire Center (12 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value), with marginal activity at Forest Service national and the Bureau of Land Management. The vendor sits on five active parent IDCs through the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service, with the largest being an IDC valued at $500,000 awarded February 6, 2026, through May 29, 2030, under total small business set-aside (13 task orders, $399 thousand combined potential value); an IDC valued at $250,000 awarded May 29, 2025, through May 29, 2030 (12 task orders, $260 thousand combined potential value); and a $250,000 IDC awarded June 2, 2022, through June 6, 2025 (9 task orders, $155 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has been volatile: 7 awards in 2022, declining to 2 in 2024, then rising to 9 in 2025 and 6 in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 64 awards sits at $2.4 million, with $1 million obligated (43% realization). The vendor operates exclusively from incident-driven small-value delivery orders; no prime contract IDVs, GWACs, or agency-wide vehicles are held. Northern Construction has held SAM registration since 2003, reflecting two decades of sustained engagement with the Forest Service's wildland fire operations network across the Pacific Northwest and Western regions.

Andre Ciais is a dedicated veteran that assists his community fire department in fire suppression for the forest service since 2003. For more information, please contact him at (509)775-2030.