Daniel Terrell

Daniel Terrell, doing business as Rim Fire, provides wildland firefighting services and water handling support to the U.S. Forest Service as a sole proprietorship based in Stevensville, Montana, competing entirely as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. Rim Fire holds three active indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs) and a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement footprint with the Forest Service, issued $2.1 million in combined potential value across 34 awards since 2003, with $752 thousand obligated to date.

Rim Fire's customer concentration is extreme and regional. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R1–Northern Region accounts for 18 awards ($951 thousand combined potential value) representing 53% of the vendor's award count; the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)—the coordinating body for interagency wildland fire response—anchors 3 awards valued at $1 million combined potential value, or 48% of total potential value. The Forest Service R5–Pacific Southwest Region and central Forest Service administrative awards comprise the remainder. The two rankings diverge slightly on proportional weight: NIFC's three awards represent fewer than 10% of recent count but account for nearly half the total potential value, whereas R1–Northern Region dominates both volume and absolute dollar concentration across the portfolio.

Rim Fire's vehicle position consists of three USDA Forest Service indefinite-delivery water-handling and fire-suppression contracts and multiple regional blanket purchase agreements. The National Interagency Fire Center issued a $500,000 ceiling IDC on February 6, 2026, for water handling services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 with an ultimate completion date of May 30, 2030. NIFC also holds a May 30, 2025–dated $250,000 ceiling IDC awarded May 30, 2025. The Forest Service issued a predecessor $250,000 IDC to Rim Fire on June 1, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of May 30, 2025. Delivery orders placed under these vehicles include a $49,570 order for wildland firefighting services in Hamilton, Montana (August 26, 2026), a $74,355 order for wildland firefighting and equipment in Dillon, Montana (August 6, 2026), a $45,679 order spanning multiple regions including Dalton Gardens, Idaho (August 5, 2023), and a $58,581 order in the Northern Region (September 6, 2022).

Activity is sporadic. Awards cluster in 2022 and 2023 (three per year), with one award in 2025 and four in 2026 following the NIFC IDC awards in February and May 2025. Capability is narrowly bounded to NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation fire-suppression work. The vendor does not hold a position on government-wide vehicles, does not subcontract, and does not work outside the wildfire and water-handling service domain.

1) Two Wildland fire engines available.

2) Excavation, backhoe, and dump truck.

3) Flatbed truck & 10-ton equipment trailer for general work & transporting vehicles.

4) Logging & Tree thinning. USFS contract 43-03R6-4-0360.