Coastal Helicopters, Inc.

Coastal Helicopters, Inc., a small business subsidiary of Survey Point Holdings, Inc. based in Juneau, Alaska, provides on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies across Alaska as a prime contractor, operating predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on Interior Department indefinite-delivery vehicles and other federal contract instruments. The vendor competes almost entirely as a prime (99% of 428 recent awards) on delivery orders and definitive contracts rather than as a subcontractor.

Coastal Helicopters' capability footprint centers on helicopter transportation, aerial support, and remote-access logistics for federal missions throughout Alaska's challenging terrain. The vendor delivers on-call helicopter services for stream gage maintenance, glacier monitoring, scientific research support, wildland firefighting, search and rescue, natural resource management, personnel and equipment transport, and emergency response across remote locations where ground access is impractical. Representative prime work includes a $16.47 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center (March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2027) under Total Small Business set-aside, which enables rapid procurement of helicopter services by multiple Interior bureaus and other federal agencies. Under this vehicle, the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center has issued delivery orders for stream gage maintenance ($37,200 awarded June 19, 2026; $21,429.83 awarded November 21, 2025), glacier monitoring ($17,190 awarded March 25, 2026), and research operations in remote basins including Taku, Alsek, Lemon, Antler, and Suicide. The vendor also holds a $6.5 million Basic Ordering Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center for on-call helicopter support in urgent wildland fire response operations, and a $590,076.46 definitive contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (September 8, 2021, through September 30, 2026) for helicopter charter services between Juneau and Southeast Alaska sites under Total Small Business set-aside, generating $129 thousand in SCI-reported invoicing in FY2024 on 49 contractor hours at a derived rate of $2,634.89/hr. A $1.406 million definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Coast Guard (September 10, 2021, through September 9, 2026) under 100% small business set-aside provides on-call helicopter transportation for Coast Guard personnel, equipment, and supplies across Juneau, Kodiak, Ketchikan, and Anchorage.

Customer concentration is dispersed across 22 distinct federal agencies but concentrated in wildland fire and Interior Department missions. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the award count (75 awards, $7.3 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of Interior Departmental Offices (68 awards) and the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center (60 awards, $827 thousand). By potential value, however, the Interior Department's Departmental Offices Office of Policy Management and Budget leads ($38.2 million across 2 awards), followed by Interior's Interior Business Center ($29.6 million across 13 awards), the USDA Fire Center ($7.3 million), the Federal Aviation Administration Alaska Region ($5 million across 4 awards), and the Coast Guard ($2.3 million across 21 awards). The top five customer agencies account for 94% of combined potential value, signaling material customer concentration but with the largest dollars concentrated in IDV ceilings rather than obligated work.

The vendor holds position on multiple federal vehicles beyond the primary Interior Business Center IDC. The Basic Ordering Agreement 12024B20G5703 carries 77 task orders ($841 thousand combined potential value); Blanket Purchase Agreement IND12PA00113 carries 40 task orders ($270 thousand); Indefinite Delivery Contract 140D8122D0012 carries 39 task orders ($609 thousand); Blanket Purchase Agreement AG0116B159004 carries 26 task orders ($562 thousand); and the older DOI Alaska On Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017-2021 IDIQ carried 26 task orders ($329 thousand) prior to expiration. The bulk of recent work flows through the Interior Business Center multiple-award contract and the Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center Basic Ordering Agreement.

Activity has remained relatively stable year to year — 33 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 32 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 7 through mid-2026 — suggesting a steady but not accelerating pipeline. Seven awards (combined potential value $2.2 million) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore carry recompete risk. The vendor's first recorded award dates to April 1990, reflecting a long federal contracting presence anchored in Alaska aviation support.

SCI-reported invoicing across federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $353 thousand cumulatively from FY2022 through FY2024 ($111 thousand in FY2022, $113 thousand in FY2023, $129 thousand in FY2024), representing a minimal subset of the vendor's total federal revenue. The SCI dataset captures three prime records in FY2023 and FY2024 (0.0 FTEs reported contract-level) and one in FY2022 (0.1 FTEs), indicating that most of Coastal Helicopters' federal revenue derives from delivery orders and task orders below the SCI reporting threshold or from non-service categories such as goods and equipment. On the reported service contracts, government-paid hourly rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $762.77/hr to a median of $1,537.16/hr to a 90th percentile of $2,381.29/hr, with a single-contract FY2024 rate of $2,634.89/hr reflecting the FAA charter work. Coastal Helicopters self-performed all SCI-reported hours with no subcontractor engagement across the service contracts captured.

The vendor competes predominantly on Total Small Business set-asides across its prime portfolio, with individual delivery orders typically ranging from $1,500 to $48,000 in value and fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment pricing structures. Work is performed in Juneau, Alaska, with geographic scope spanning remote locations across Interior Alaska, Southeast Alaska, and other challenging terrain where helicopter access is mission-critical. Coastal Helicopters operates as a subsidiary of Survey Point Holdings, Inc., a for-profit organization based in Ketchikan, Alaska; the parent relationship does not materially alter the vendor's federal posture as a small business operator delivering specialized aviation logistics to Interior and USDA customers in Alaska.