Earin Halpin

Earin Halpin, doing business as Mesa West Contracting, a sole proprietorship based in Clifton, Colorado, delivers water handling and tender water support services to federal wildland fire and land management agencies as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside vehicles. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime on full-and-open and small-business set-aside purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts; no subcontract activity is present in the source.

Mesa West Contracting's recent federal footprint centers on two customer agencies split evenly across awards and dollar value. The National Interagency Fire Center (U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) accounts for two awards totaling $500 thousand in combined potential value — a February 2026 multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $250 thousand for water handling services across U.S. Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, running through May 30, 2030, and a May 2025 Virtual Incident Procurement system I-BPA for the same scope. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region accounts for two purchase orders totaling $39 thousand — a June 1, 2025 order for $17,630.73 for tender water support (Type 2) at Turner Gulch and a June 1, 2025 order for $21,682.00 for tender water support (Type 2) at Red Canyon, both scheduled for completion by October 31, 2025.

The vendor holds a Total Small Business set-aside position on the Forest Service's East Zone water handling IDC, which permits task orders through the Virtual Incident Procurement system and allows utilization by interagency cooperators including the National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Work is performed in Boise, Idaho and across designated Forest Service regions. Activity is nascent — four awards between May 2025 and February 2026 — with combined potential value of $539 thousand and only $39 thousand obligated to date. NAICS classification centers on Support Activities for Forestry (4 awards), with PSC activity split between Fire Fighting Equipment and Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.