Cooper Contracting, Inc.

Cooper Contracting, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Prineville, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) providing wildland firefighting equipment, crews, and emergency response resources to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of the Interior, predominantly under total small business set-asides through Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity vehicles. The company has held federal contracts since 1991 and competes characteristically under small business set-asides, with all 182 awards in the source data issued as prime contracts rather than subcontracts.

Cooper Contracting's core capability centers on wildland fire suppression and emergency incident response resources. The company supplies Type 2–6 firefighting engines, water handling equipment (including support and tactical water tenders), faller modules and specialized faller personnel, and Type 2 firefighter crews to support wildfire suppression, emergency response, and natural resource management across the western United States. Representative contracts include a $243,868 firm fixed-price delivery order (awarded August 5, 2024, completion May 10, 2026) under an Indefinite Delivery Contract with USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) for mixed firefighting resources and support services; a $211,506 delivery order (awarded September 22, 2023) under Region 4 (Intermountain Region) for wildland fire suppression services in McCall, Idaho; and a $188,341 firm fixed-price delivery order (awarded August 5, 2023, completion May 10, 2026) with Region 6 for Type 2 firefighter crews, engines, water handling equipment, and faller modules. The company also supplies individual fire engines through purchase orders to the Forest Service Idaho Region, with orders in June 2025 for Type 4 and Type 6 engines valued from $10,200 to $58,800 each.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Forest Service. The USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 82 awards and $4.4 million in combined potential value, anchoring 78% of total awards by count. The National Interagency Fire Center (Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) represents a secondary customer base with 16 awards and $2.9 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and Oregon-Washington offices together account for 20 awards and approximately $500 thousand combined potential value. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission appears in the source with 24 awards but carries no dollar magnitude. Across the top five customers, the Forest Service organization controls 77% of combined potential dollar value, with Region 6 and the National Interagency Fire Center together representing over $7.3 million of the $11.6 million portfolio ceiling.

Cooper Contracting holds multiple positions on Forest Service Indefinite Delivery vehicles executed through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The contractor sits on six named IDCs covering water handling equipment for Region 6 (two contracts, each $250,000 ceiling, awarded February and May 2025 and June 2025), water handling for the multi-region West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10; $250,000 ceiling, awarded June 2, 2022), fallers for Regions 5 and 6 (two IDCs, each $250,000, awarded February 2026 and June 2023), and additional regional and National Interagency Fire Center vehicles. The top parent vehicles by task order volume are IDC 1202SC21T2408 (15 task orders, $1.8 million), BPA AG04H1B179664 (13 task orders, $1 million), and IDC 1202SB22T7654 (20 task orders, $667 thousand). All parent vehicles are small business set-aside IDIQs with ceiling values typically in the $250,000 to $750,000 range.

Activity has grown year over year from 2022 through 2025, rising from 15 awards in 2022 to 21 in 2025, with 8 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date (through mid-May). Award values remain modest and short-duration (most delivery orders span days to weeks, with completion dates concentrated in May–September for fire season response), reflecting the contingent and surge-responsive nature of wildland fire suppression contracting. No recompete-cliff data is provided in the source, but the majority of recent delivery orders carry ultimate completion dates in May 2026 or June 2030, suggesting potential recompete opportunity across the VIPR I-BPA vehicle portfolio. Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 332520) accounts for 148 of 182 awards, and the Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC category dominates the portfolio at 132 awards.