Croman Corp

Croman Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in White City, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor delivering aerial firefighting helicopter support, pilot training, and aircraft maintenance services to federal agencies—predominantly the National Interagency Fire Center and U.S. Forest Service—on full-and-open federal contracts without set-aside designation.

Croman's capability portfolio centers on wildland fire suppression aviation. The company operates and maintains Type 1 and Type 3 firefighting helicopters equipped with water tanks and buckets, provides highly trained flight crews and ground operations support, and delivers Federal Aviation Administration-certified pilot training on the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter platform. Representative work includes a $541,287 delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center (issued June 2026) under the Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 IDIQ for aerial firefighting operations through July 2026; a $691,109 delivery order (August 2023) for firefighting and helicopter flight support services through August 2023; and a $721,399 delivery order (June 2025) for specialized helicopter services including aircraft maintenance and wildland fire suppression support through December 2029. All work is performed at Croman's White City, Oregon facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and tied to fire season demand. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) drives 85% of recent awards by count and 61% by potential value, anchoring $379.3 million in combined potential value across 312 awards. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center, Department of the Interior, and Federal Aviation Administration round out the active set, together accounting for roughly 30% of remaining potential value. The gap between award count and dollar concentration reflects the vendor's use of multiple small task orders against standing IDIQs during peak wildfire periods rather than fewer, larger contracts.

Croman holds two primary vehicles. The Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 is a $50 million multiple-award IDIQ with the National Interagency Fire Center running through December 31, 2034, yielding 65 task orders worth $28.9 million in combined potential value. More significantly, Croman operates under a Basic Ordering Agreement (12024B20G5017) that has generated 238 task orders worth $91.2 million—this is the vendor's workhorse vehicle for seasonal firefighting demand. Croman also holds an Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Air Warfare Center valued at $122.6 million across 16 task orders, supporting Navy test and evaluation missions, plus smaller IDCs with the Federal Aviation Administration for pilot training and the U.S. Marine Corps for medium-lift helicopter transport.

Activity follows a seasonal pattern driven by wildfire operations. Awards per year have tracked 74 (2022), 71 (2023), 94 (2024), 52 (2025, year-to-date), and 15 (2026 through mid-June). The 2024 peak reflects sustained wildfire response demand; 2025 data is partial. Most delivery orders carry ultimate completion dates through December 2024 or December 2029, indicating contract vehicles structured for multi-year call-when-needed deployment. No recompete cliff was identified; the Type 1 IDIQ runs through 2034, and the BOA structure allows indefinite renewal subject to agency funding.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $12.2 million in FY2023, the only fiscal year with service-contract activity above the $150,000 threshold; FY2022 and FY2024 show zero SCI invoicing. FY2023 activity involved approximately 9.8 FTEs on federal service contracts captured in SCI. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ran a median of $602.96/hr, with the 10th percentile at $520.21/hr and the 90th percentile at $687.87/hr—reflecting pilot, maintenance technician, and training instructor labor. SCI data shows zero subcontractor hour share; Croman appears to deliver these services directly using internal staff rather than subcontracting labor. SCI represents a strict and partial subset of Croman's federal revenue; total federal potential value of $622.2 million across all award types significantly exceeds the $12.2 million SCI figure.

Croman operates predominantly as a prime contractor—451 of 452 tracked awards (100% of prime awards) are prime contracts or IDVs. The vendor holds a single sub-award (dated August 2025) to Amentum Services, a fuel control overhaul for helicopter operations at the Atlantic Undersea Test & Evaluation Center. Croman does not position itself as a federal subcontractor to other primes; it competes and delivers on its own federal contracts across standing aviation vehicles.

The vendor carries no SBA designations; all work is full-and-open competitive. Croman competes on price and technical merit, with no set-aside cushion. This posture reflects a mature, fully capable vendor serving a specialized federal market—aerial firefighting and helicopter operations for land management agencies—where the company's domain expertise and operational readiness are the competitive lever rather than small-business or minority-owned status.