D F Zee's Firefighting Catering, LLC

D F Zee's Firefighting Catering, LLC, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Shingle Springs, California, delivers mobile food service and catering support to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor (100% of awards) for wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and emergency response operations across the western United States. The vendor operates under NAICS 722330 (Food Service Contractors) and competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, particularly the Total Small Business designation on its primary IDIQ vehicle.

Customer concentration is extreme and deliberate. The top five customer organizations account for 95% of awards by count and 99% of combined potential value, with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchoring the portfolio at 33 awards valued at $90.2 million. The remaining four Forest Service regional offices—R5 (Pacific Southwest), R4 (Intermountain), R6 (Pacific Northwest), and the Forest Service broadly—collectively hold 29 awards worth $11.5 million. No other agencies appear in the portfolio. This concentration reflects D F Zee's operational focus on pre-positioned catering capability for wildfire incident response within a single federal program.

The vendor's vehicle position centers on two parent IDIQs. The primary vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract 12024B20T2508, carries 47 task orders valued at $24.4 million combined potential value and ran through December 31, 2024 (now expired). The newer Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDIQ, awarded July 1, 2025, carries a $15 million ceiling under a Total Small Business set-aside with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2029. Five task orders totaling $7.4 million have issued under the 2025–2029 IDIQ as of the most recent data snapshot; a secondary IDIQ (AG024BC159003A) carries two task orders worth $6 million combined potential value.

Award activity peaked in 2022 at 17 awards, declined to 10 in 2023 and 13 in 2024, then dropped sharply to 7 awards in 2025 and 1 award in 2026 (as of mid-May). This trajectory reflects expiration of the legacy 12024B20T2508 vehicle and transition to the newer 2025–2029 IDIQ. Combined potential value across all 65 prime awards stands at $102.3 million, with $60 million obligated to date (59% of combined potential value). Representative work includes a $3.463 million May 2026 delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center for dispatch-point designation and mobile food service unit support under the Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDIQ; a $2.883 million July 2025 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 for catering in Eureka, California; a $6.804 million July 2021 delivery order for catering support in Belden, California during the Dixie Fire response; and numerous smaller task orders ranging from $19,000 to $1.081 million issued across regional Forest Service offices for fixed-price, economically adjusted catering services at incident bases statewide.

Place of performance spans California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, with administrative oversight from Shingle Springs, California. D F Zee's provides hot and cold meals, shift provisions, sack lunches, and fully equipped mobile kitchen units capable of deployment to remote and austere incident environments. The vendor operates as a prime contractor exclusively; no subcontract activity appears in the award record. D F Zee's has held Forest Service catering contracts continuously since at least 2021, establishing itself as a core supplier to the agency's wildland fire and all-hazard response infrastructure.