Connie's, Incorporated

Connie's, Incorporated, doing business as Connies Inc., operates as a small-business prime contractor delivering refrigerated trailer rentals, truck transportation, and specialized freight services exclusively to the USDA Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center for wildland fire suppression and emergency incident logistics. Connie's competes under full-and-open procurements for the majority of its work, with a material portion of delivery orders awarded under total small business set-asides; the company holds no SBA designations (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB) and is not minority-owned or disadvantaged, operating as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in La Grande, Oregon.

Connie's customer concentration is narrow and mission-focused. The top five funding organizations account for 82% of awards by count. The National Interagency Fire Center (22 awards, $9 million combined potential value) anchors the dollar ranking, driven by a $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for the National Tier 3 Incident Support Freight program that enables exclusive freight transportation for hazardous emergency wildland fire activities across the continental United States and Alaska. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (114 awards, $3.3 million) dominates award volume, followed by the Intermountain Region (40 awards, $1.4 million), the Northern Region (12 awards, $384 thousand), and the Rocky Mountain Region (5 awards, $335 thousand). Work is performed across Forest Service Regions 1 through 6 and select higher-numbered regions, with incident sites and logistics bases throughout the western states.

Connie's vehicle position centers on multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts and the single-award National Tier 3 BPA. The company holds a $500,000 multiple-award IDC (awarded February 2026, completion June 2030) for refrigerated trailer provision across Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 under total small business set-aside status, with 95 task orders totaling $2.8 million. A second $250,000 multiple-award IDC (awarded June 2025, completion June 2030) carries 44 task orders valued at $1.5 million. The $7.5 million National Tier 3 BPA (awarded March 2022, completion December 2026) has issued 26 documented call orders for mileage-based transportation services from the La Grande Incident Support Cache at pricing ranging from $8.15 to $9.97 per mile. An older $250,000 IDC (awarded June 2022, completed June 2025) was the predecessor refrigerated trailer vehicle.

Activity has grown substantially over the past five years: 20 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 57 in 2024, 31 in 2025, and 22 through August 2026. The vendor faces minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months—only 2 awards with combined potential value of $77 thousand are scheduled for completion before October 2026, positioning Connie's with stable demand under its primary vehicles through mid-2030. Connie's total award footprint spans 241 prime contracts and IDVs with combined potential value of $15.7 million and obligated dollars of $6.4 million (41% of potential).

Capability portfolio centers on refrigerated trailer deployment and mileage-based freight transportation for incident suppression operations. Representative recent awards include a $77,984 delivery order from Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) on July 24, 2025, for wildland fire logistics support in Tumwater, Washington; a $132,971 delivery order from the same region on August 7, 2024, for similar services; and recurring $34,000-$54,000 orders from the Intermountain Region supporting fire and all-hazard incident operations. All work is performed as prime contractor with no documented subcontract footprint. Delivery orders are uniformly firm fixed-price with durations of two to twelve weeks, supporting incident-driven demand across active fire seasons and interagency coordination.

The vendor's classification spans NAICS 484230 (Specialized Freight Trucking, Local—198 awards) and PSC 7310 (Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression—203 awards), with secondary NAICS codes reflecting occasional support activities for forestry and wholesale supply. Connie's maintains a SAM.gov registration dating to 1999 and has operated continuously as a dedicated federal logistics provider to the Forest Service for over two decades, with award volume accelerating sharply in 2024 as the National Tier 3 program and regional IDC vehicle usage expanded.