Coastal Helicopters, Inc.

Coastal Helicopters, Inc., based in Juneau, Alaska, is a small-business prime contractor delivering on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies across Alaska's remote terrain, operating primarily under Department of Interior indefinite-delivery contracts and Forest Service fire-response agreements. Coastal Helicopters is a subsidiary of Survey Point Holdings, Inc., and competes across Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open procurements.

The vendor's capability footprint centers on helicopter transportation and aerial logistics for federal missions in Alaska's wilderness. Representative work includes a $16.47 million Interior Business Center multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract (Total Small Business set-aside, active through February 28, 2027) providing on-call helicopter support to the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center for stream gage maintenance in remote basins including the Taku, Alsek, Lemon, Antler, and Suicide Basin regions; delivery orders from the National Park Service for search-and-rescue and coast-patrol operations; and a $6.5 million Basic Ordering Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service National Interagency Fire Center for wildland firefighting support. Recent specific awards include a $37,200 fixed-price delivery order from USGS for stream gage maintenance (June 19, 2026), a $39,930 order from the National Park Service for Glacier Bay coast patrol (July 10, 2026, later canceled), and a $47,251.30 delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center for wildfire response (August 2, 2024).

Customer concentration is fragmented across interior and resource-management agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 62% of recent awards but are led by volume-driven, smaller-dollar orders: the National Interagency Fire Center (75 awards, $7.3 million combined potential value), Department of the Interior Departmental Offices (68 awards, unspecified value), and USGS Alaska Science Center (60 awards, $827 thousand). By potential value, concentration shifts to two large Interior awards: the Interior Business Center ($29.6 million across 13 awards) and the Office of Policy Management and Budget ($38.2 million across 2 awards), which together anchor 94% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center ranks third on dollars at $7.3 million.

Coastal Helicopters operates under multiple parent vehicles anchoring its delivery-order activity. The Basic Ordering Agreement 12024B20G5703 (77 task orders, $841 thousand combined value) and the Indefinite Delivery Contract 140D8122D0012 (40 task orders, $580 thousand) form the core recurring vehicles. The Interior Business Center's $16.47 million Total Small Business IDIQ and the Forest Service's $6.5 million wildfire Basic Ordering Agreement are the two primary master contracts named across the award summaries. Coastal Helicopters also holds positions on Blanket Purchase Agreements AG0116B159004 and IND12PA00113 with the Department of Agriculture.

Activity has remained consistent over the past five years—33 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 32 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 8 year-to-date through mid-2026—with no indication of accelerating or declining volume. Within the next twenty-four months, three awards with combined potential value of $685 thousand face ultimate completion dates, representing modest recompete exposure in the near term. Coastal Helicopters operates as a near-pure prime (424 of 429 awards, 99%), with only five sub-awards across the portfolio. Named subcontract relationships include work under Battelle Memorial Institute (Arctic Research Support and Logistics Services helicopter support, May 19, 2026) and Chugach Dynamic Solutions LLC (IP radio installation and helicopter transport across remote Alaska sites, October 2024 through March 2025).

SCI-reported invoicing totaled $353 thousand across four fiscal years (FY2022–FY2025), with peak activity in FY2024 at $129 thousand. Federal services contract labor spans a spectrum—median government-paid hourly rates run around $1,537/hr, with senior labor rates reaching $2,381/hr—consistent with specialized aviation expertise in remote environments. The SCI dataset shows approximately 0.1 FTE equivalent in FY2022, declining to no FTEs recorded by FY2025, reflecting that most Coastal Helicopters work is procured as aircraft-and-crew delivery orders rather than time-and-materials service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero share of hours engaged subcontractors, confirming the vendor builds its own internal delivery teams.