Desert Mesa Response LLC

Desert Mesa Response LLC, a Utah-based for-profit limited liability company, provides water handling equipment, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel for wildfire suppression and all-hazard emergency response to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) and competes predominantly under small business set-asides across a narrow, specialized federal footprint.

Desert Mesa Response is a total small business set-aside player in wildfire and emergency response logistics. The vendor holds two indefinite-delivery contracts with the U.S. Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center: a $500,000 ceiling firm fixed-price IDC awarded February 6, 2026, for water handling services supporting fire suppression and all-hazard incidents across Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 running through May 30, 2030; and a $250,000 ceiling IDC awarded May 30, 2025, also for water handling support in the same regions. Both contracts operate through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and permit competitive award of Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements across regional dispatch centers. Three task orders against the first IDC (combined potential value $121,000) represent the vendor's documented VIPR activity to date. Recent single-order work includes a $49,725 total small business delivery order from GSA Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) on August 11, 2026, for work in Lakeview, Oregon; a $39,000 GSA Region 6 delivery order on August 1, 2026, for work in Roseburg, Oregon; and two no-set-aside purchase orders from the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region for Type 3 water tenders valued at $6,500 and $27,625 respectively, both dated May 1, 2026, for completion by August 15, 2026.

Customer concentration aligns entirely with federal land management and fire-suppression missions. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the footprint with 2 awards carrying $750,000 in combined potential value, followed by the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region (2 awards, $89,000), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (2 awards, $34,000), and the Forest Service Region 4 Intermountain Region (1 award, $33,000). Activity is minimal but accelerating — 2 awards in 2025, 5 awards in 2026 — with combined potential value across all seven awards totaling $905,000 and only $155,000 obligated as of the source date. Award categorization is narrowly focused: 7 awards under NAICS Support Activities for Forestry, with 5 awards under the PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression and 2 awards under Fire Fighting Equipment.