Cottonwood Mountain Catering LLC

Cottonwood Mountain Catering LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Vale, Oregon, provides mobile food service and catering to federal wildfire training and response operations as a prime contractor operating entirely under no set-aside or total small business set-aside purchase orders. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and limited liability company that has worked exclusively with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service across eight purchase orders totaling $951 thousand in combined potential value since August 2021.

The vendor's customer footprint is concentrated in wildland fire agency regions. The BLM's Oregon-Washington Region accounts for 4 awards ($345 thousand combined potential value), anchored by a $276,883 multi-year purchase order (awarded June 3, 2024, running through May 31, 2029 with option years exercised through 2028) to provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffet and sack meals for the Rookie Fire School in Unity and the Women in Wildland Fire Bootcamp in Juntura, serving over 1,600 federal trainees across two recurring training events. The BLM's Idaho Region accounts for 2 awards ($300 thousand combined potential value) — a $209,872 purchase order and a $90,160 purchase order, both issued June 1, 2025, for mobile food service at Boise and Rock Creek through October 31, 2025. The Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center contributed 1 award ($179,068) for catering services supporting the E-110 Black Butte Fire response in John Day, Oregon (awarded August 8, 2021), and the Forest Service's R6-Pacific Northwest Region contributed 1 award ($127,221) for mobile food service at Crockets Knob, Oregon (awarded August 23, 2022). All four customer entities account for 100% of the vendor's recent award volume and combined potential value.

Activity has remained modest and cyclical — one award in 2021, two in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025 — with the vendor operating as a 100% prime contractor and carrying no subcontract exposure. Combined dollars obligated across all awards stand at $829 thousand, representing 87% of combined potential value. The vendor competes under full-and-open competition on most awards; four awards are designated total small business set-aside, and four carry no set-aside. Cottonwood Mountain Catering holds no parent contract vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs and relies on direct purchase order issuance from regional wildfire training and response operations within BLM and Forest Service. The vendor's capability portfolio is defined entirely by mobile catering logistics for federal wildland fire training events and incident response operations in the Pacific Northwest and intermountain West.