Clearwater TECH LLC

Clearwater TECH LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Lewiston, Idaho, delivers water handling equipment and services to the USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor exclusively, with 100 percent of recent awards placed as a prime under total small business set-asides or full-and-open designations. The company operates as a limited liability partnership specializing in wildland firefighting and emergency incident response infrastructure, including water tenders, potable and gray water trucks, handwashing stations, and related vehicle rentals deployed across U.S. Forest Service regions in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies.

Clearwater's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the USDA Forest Service's fire and emergency response mission. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by combined potential value with eleven awards totaling $3.8 million, while the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas accounts for five awards worth $3 million. The Forest Service's Region 1 (Northern Region) represents the highest award count at twenty-four delivery orders, though at lower individual values totaling $1 million combined potential value. The two customer-ranking methodologies reveal tension: the National Interagency Fire Center dominates dollars per award through its indefinite delivery contracts, while Region 1 sustains volume through frequent small delivery orders against those same vehicles.

The vendor's footprint centers on nine indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) issued by the National Interagency Fire Center or USDA Forest Service, with ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $750,000 and ultimate completion dates extending through 2030. Representative IDCs include a $750,000 multiple-award total small business set-aside for potable and gray water trucks and handwashing stations supporting East Zone Regions 1, 2, and 4 (awarded February 6, 2026), a $500,000 total small business set-aside for water handling across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 through the Virtual Incident Procurement system (awarded February 6, 2026), and a $500,000 total small business set-aside for Region 6 Pacific Northwest water handling (awarded February 6, 2026). Recent delivery orders against these vehicles include a $28,700 August 2026 delivery from the Pacific Northwest Region for water handling equipment supporting wildland firefighting, a $35,120 August 2026 delivery from the Intermountain Region, and a $90,890.72 August 2025 delivery from Region 1 for emergency response water assets.

Activity has accelerated from two awards in 2022 to seven in 2026, with the source current as of August 22, 2026. The vendor operates across NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC S206 (Firefighting Equipment Rental), with forty-four of forty-six awards classified under the natural resources and forest fire suppression category. The combined potential value across all forty-six awards stands at $7.9 million, with $570 thousand (7 percent) obligated to date, indicating substantial remaining capacity in the firm's IDC vehicles through 2030.