Columbia Basin Ice, LLC

Columbia Basin Ice, LLC, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Kennewick, Washington, supplies ice, water, sports drinks, and refrigerated-trailer rental services to federal agencies as a prime contractor operating under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint. The vendor competes exclusively as a prime across all eight tracked awards; it holds no subcontract positions.

Columbia Basin Ice's customer base is concentrated within the Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region accounts for six awards and $838 thousand of the vendor's combined potential value, representing 96% of the award portfolio. A single award from the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station ($16 thousand) and one from the Department of the Army ($14 thousand) complete the customer set, all three agencies covering 100% of tracked awards. The vendor has no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs in the source material; all work flows through individual purchase orders.

Recent representative work includes a $660,648 purchase order from USDA Region 6 dated July 31, 2026, for emergency hydration ice, water, and sports drink in support of wildland fire operations in Chelan, Washington (completion August 25, 2026); a $110,300 purchase order from USDA Region 6 dated July 30, 2026, for a refrigerated Type 1 trailer in Vancouver, Washington (completion September 3, 2026); and a $16,222 purchase order from the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station dated August 23, 2026, for pallets of ice, water, and Gatorade in Chelan, Washington (completion October 1, 2026). Earlier work includes a $25,312 rental of an ice trailer filled with ice supporting an incident in Chelan for USDA Region 6 (June 14, 2024) and a $13,895 delivery of crushed ice with a refrigerated truck for Army training (May 16, 2022).

Award activity shows recent acceleration: one award each in 2021 and 2022, one in 2024, then five awards in 2026. Combined potential value across all eight awards is $868 thousand; combined obligated dollars total $207 thousand (24% of potential value). Five of the vendor's eight tracked awards have ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of roughly $824 thousand, representing significant recompete exposure. The vendor's capability set across awards spans ice manufacturing (two awards), refrigerated-trailer rental and leasing (two awards), and support for forestry and emergency response operations, with performance locations across Washington State (Everett, Vancouver, Chelan) and occasional work in fire-suppression contexts.