D F Zee's Firefighting Catering, LLC

D F Zee's Firefighting Catering, LLC, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Shingle Springs, California, provides mobile food service and catering support to wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response operations as a prime contractor across 100% of its federal award footprint. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on its parent IDIQ vehicles and full-and-open competitive delivery orders, with no subcontract exposure.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on field catering and mobile food services for federal emergency responders. Services include hot and cold meals, shift provisions, sack lunches, supplemental items, and fully equipped mobile kitchen units deployed to remote and austere incident environments. Representative work includes a $5.7 million delivery order from the USDA Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded in July 2026 under the Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025-2029 IDIQ (Total Small Business set-aside) for operations in Pendleton, Oregon; a $3.5 million delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center in May 2026 for designated dispatch point support and mobile food service unit deployment; a $2.9 million delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) in July 2025 for catering in Eureka, California; and a $1.1 million delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 in July 2024 for incident support in northern California.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its subordinate organizations. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) dominates the portfolio with 33 awards valued at $90.2 million (83% of combined potential value across all awards), followed at distance by Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) with 7 awards at $7.2 million, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) with 9 awards at $5.9 million, and Region 4 (Intermountain) with 8 awards at $2.3 million. The top five customer subdivisions account for 95% of award count and 99% of potential value. Across the entire vendor portfolio, the vendor has worked with only eight distinct federal agencies, all within the Forest Service enterprise, concentrated in western U.S. fire management operations.

D F Zee's sits on two parent IDIQ vehicles. The Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025-2029 (multiple-award Total Small Business set-aside, $15 million ceiling, NIFC, awarded July 2025, running through December 2029) carries six task orders valued at $13 million. The older Indefinite Delivery Contract 12024B20T2508 (single-award, $25 million, awarded June 2020, running through December 2024) generated 47 task orders valued at $24.4 million across Forest Service regions including Pacific Southwest, Intermountain, Pacific Northwest, and Southwestern regions. A third vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract AG024BC159003A, accounts for two task orders at $6 million potential value. Task orders under these vehicles range from $19,230 to $2.9 million and carry fixed-price pricing with economic price adjustment provisions.

Award volume peaked in 2022 with 17 awards, declined to 10 in 2023, recovered to 13 in 2024, then dropped to 7 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 (through mid-July). The combined potential value across all 66 awards stands at $108 million with $65.7 million obligated (61% of potential value). The decline in 2025-2026 activity reflects the expiration of the legacy $25 million IDIQ in December 2024; the vendor's July 2025 award of the new $15 million 2025-2029 IDIQ vehicle signals continued market position but at a lower dollar level. No awards yet exceed the new vehicle's scheduled completion date of December 2029, so immediate recompete risk is low, but the transition from the $25 million to the $15 million IDIQ represents a 40% reduction in contract ceiling authority for forward work.

Place of performance spans the western United States — California (Eureka, Grass Valley, Porterville, Yosemite, Arcadia), Oregon (Pendleton, Prineville, Lakeview, Roseburg), Idaho (Kamiah), Utah, New Mexico (Santa Fe, Chino Valley), Colorado (Delta), and Arizona — reflecting the geographic scope of Forest Service fire management regions. The vendor operates dispatch points and mobile food service units across these locations on both exclusive-use and call-when-needed task order basis, enabling rapid incident response mobilization across multiple states.