Elk Mountain Fire L.L.C.

Elk Mountain Fire L.L.C., a Hamilton, Montana–based for-profit limited liability company, provides wildfire response and suppression services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates 100% as a prime, with no subcontract footprint, and specializes in Type 3 and 6 Engine dispatch, Support Water Tender mobilization, and incident-support personnel for fire suppression and all-hazard emergency response across Forest Service regions in California, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest. All nine recent awards are classified under NAICS 541614 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.

Elk Mountain Fire holds two Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center (a USDA entity): a $500,000 multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, and a $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded June 4, 2025, both running through June 4, 2030. Orders under these IDCs are placed as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and carry firm fixed-price rates calculated on up to 16-hour daily shifts. The two IDCs anchor $750,000 of the vendor's $1.2 million combined potential value. Elk Mountain Fire also holds seven delivery orders against the $500,000 IDC (IDC 129J6125T7137), delivering $489,000 in obligated dollars (39% of total combined potential value). Representative task-order work includes an $86,172.60 order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) on August 1, 2026, for wildfire response and suppression in Sandy, Oregon (completion August 20, 2026); an $82,800 order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) on August 22, 2025, for water handling and fire suppression in Solvang, California (completion September 8, 2025); and a $75,900 open-competition order from Region 5 on September 14, 2025, for wildfire response in Eureka, California (completion September 30, 2025).

Customer concentration is tightly held within the USDA Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors two awards ($750,000 potential value), Region 6–Pacific Northwest holds three awards ($249,000 potential value), and Region 5–Pacific Southwest holds four awards ($240,000 potential value). Activity is recent and modest—five awards in 2025 and four in 2026—with combined potential value of $1.2 million and obligated dollars of $489,000. The vendor faces minimal recompete risk in the near term; the two IDC vehicles run through June 2030.