Elk Ridge Wildfire LLC

Elk Ridge Wildfire LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Puyallup, Washington, supplies water handling equipment, fire suppression services, and emergency incident response personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor on total small business set-aside awards. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and competes entirely under small business set-asides.

Elk Ridge Wildfire's customer footprint is concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's fire management operations. The Forest Service's Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region and the National Interagency Fire Center account for all ten recent awards and the full $1.6 million combined potential value. The top customer ranking—National Interagency Fire Center (3 awards, $1 million combined potential value) and Region 6 (5 awards, $585 thousand combined potential value)—reflects a split between larger contract vehicles held at NIFC and smaller delivery orders executed through regional Forest Service operations. All ten awards span a single NAICS code (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC code (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), underscoring narrow capability focus.

The vendor holds three active indefinite delivery contracts. The National Interagency Fire Center awarded a $500,000 ceiling multiple-award IDC on February 6, 2026, through May 29, 2030, for water handling equipment and services in Region 6, specifying engines (Types 3–6), support water tenders (Types 1–3), and tactical water tenders (Types 1–2). Elk Ridge also holds a $250,000 ceiling VIPR I-BPA with NIFC running through May 2030 and a $250,000 ceiling VIPR I-BPA for the West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10) awarded June 2, 2022, and expiring June 6, 2025. Recent delivery orders include a $187,950 firm fixed-price order from Forest Service Region 6 on July 10, 2025, for water handling services across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10; a $66,700 order from Region 6 on September 23, 2025, for Wenatchee-based operations; and two 2026 orders (August 24, $31,500 for Wenatchee; July 23, $49,000 for Baker City, Oregon) under total small business set-aside designation.

Activity has grown incrementally—one award in 2019, then no activity until 2022, followed by two awards in 2024, three in 2025, and three in 2026. Place of performance spans the Pacific Northwest (Wenatchee, Washington; Baker City, Oregon; Hood River, Oregon) and subordinate regions. The combined dollars obligated ($348 thousand) represent 22% of the combined potential value ($1.6 million), indicating a pipeline of unfilled task orders against the multiple-award IDCs.