Dare Enterprises, LLC

Dare Enterprises, LLC, a small business based in Bend, Oregon, provides wildland firefighting vehicles, water handling equipment, and emergency response support services to the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a 100% prime contractor operating under total small business set-asides. The firm is structured as a limited liability partnership and competes exclusively on small business reserved vehicles and delivery orders, with no subcontract footprint across the past twenty years of award activity.

Dare Enterprises' capability portfolio centers on Type 3–6 fire engines, Type 1–3 support water tenders, Type 1–2 tactical water tenders, potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations, and associated transportation and personnel support for wildfire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Representative recent work includes a $67,155 firm fixed-price delivery order from the U.S. Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded July 20, 2026, for unspecified firefighting resources with completion by August 3, 2026; a $50,352 delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) in August 2023 for water handling services; and a $28,593 purchase order from the Idaho Region in June 2025 for a Type 6 fire engine. The firm also holds four active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center and the Forest Service, including a $500,000 multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, for water handling equipment across Region 6 through May 29, 2030, and a $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded May 29, 2025, also for Region 6 water handling through the same date.

Customer concentration is highly concentrated within the Department of Agriculture forest fire apparatus. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) accounts for 36 awards and $1.4 million in combined potential value, while the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds 12 awards and $1.7 million, covering 92% of recent awards by count. A secondary but smaller customer base includes the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington region (6 awards, $42 thousand) and the Idaho Region (2 awards, $51 thousand). The two customer rankings converge tightly — the National Interagency Fire Center's dollar share reflects the larger IDC ceiling values, while Region 6's volume reflects frequent small delivery orders against those same IDCs.

Dare Enterprises places task orders against five parent vehicles, the largest being Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H119T7176 (10 task orders, $326 thousand), Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04H1B167209 (9 task orders, $177 thousand), and Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T7693 (8 task orders, $205 thousand), all under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Award activity has grown from 2 awards in 2022 to 7 in 2024, then declined to 5 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 year-to-date. Five awards (combined potential value $110 thousand) complete before the end of 2026; no material recompete cliff is evident in the next twenty-four months. Work is performed across the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and Idaho regions, with primary administrative and performance operations in Bend, Oregon and Pendleton, Oregon. Dare Enterprises competes solely under total small business set-asides, with no full-and-open or other set-aside category exposure in the award record.