Emergency Support Services, LLC

Emergency Support Services, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Mesa, Arizona, serves as a prime contractor providing temporary emergency support services and equipment rentals to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across western regions. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (495 awards, 100% of footprint) with no subcontract work, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than under set-aside categories, though the company itself holds set-aside IDIQ vehicles.

Emergency Support Services specializes in concrete emergency logistics: all-terrain vehicle and utility terrain vehicle rentals, portable toilet and handwashing station provision, satellite communication equipment and services, mobile office trailers, wastewater management services, and general emergency supplies for wildland fire management and natural disaster response. The company is predominantly structured around NAICS 423850 (Truck, Utility Trailer, and RV Rental and Leasing) and PSC 1680 (Lease or Rental of Equipment—Ground Effect Vehicles, Motor Vehicles, Trailers, and Cycles), reflecting a rental-and-logistics operating model. Representative work includes a $234,660 purchase order for satellite communication services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) in July 2025, a $395,222 purchase order for audio/visual equipment rental to the Northern Region in August 2025, a $129,354 delivery order for emergency support services (ATVs, portable facilities, wastewater management) to Region 3 in June 2025, and multiple $13,000–$44,000 delivery orders across western regions for equipment rentals and logistical support during fire season.

Customer concentration is extreme and regional. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) anchors 89% of recent award count (235 awards, $19.7 million combined potential value), while the top five Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center account for 94% of dollars. However, the potential-value ranking reveals a significant anomaly: the National Interagency Fire Center, with only two awards, carries $15 million combined potential value—these are the vendor's two IDIQ vehicles. The remaining Forest Service regions (R5, R4, R6, and others) place smaller, frequent orders under those standing vehicles, typical of emergency response procurement patterns where small high-velocity delivery orders feed from large indefinite-delivery platforms.

Emergency Support Services holds two major federal contract vehicles, both with the Department of Agriculture. A $12.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for Southwest Regional Wastewater Services, awarded May 2023 and running through May 2028, covers wastewater management and related emergency support services within the Southwestern region and serves as the foundation for rapid procurement of services across Region 3. A $7.5 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract, awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on September 6, 2022, and extending through December 2026, is reserved as a Total Small Business set-aside and covers multipurpose utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, portable toilets, handwashing stations, emergency supplies, and wastewater management services. This IDIQ has generated 303 task orders (combined potential value $4.5 million) and authorizes service delivery within 450 miles of the vendor's business locations across the Southwestern, Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Intermountain, Northern, and Rocky Mountain regions. The BPA generated 95 task orders ($2.6 million combined potential value). Task orders under both vehicles are consistently firm fixed-price, non-set-aside delivery orders, with values typically ranging from $3,000 to $61,000 per order and completion dates clustered around September through October during wildfire season.

Activity has grown sharply: 14 awards in 2022 to 149 in 2024, then 161 in 2025. June 2026 shows 32 awards year-to-date as of the source snapshot (late June 2026), suggesting continued high velocity. However, only three awards ($849 thousand combined potential value) complete within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete cliff pressure in the near term. The IDIQ expires December 31, 2026, and the BPA runs through May 2028, positioning both vehicles for recompetes in late 2026 and mid-2028 respectively. Combined obligated value across all awards stands at $15.1 million (35% of combined potential value), typical of delivery order execution patterns where not all ceiling values are drawn down.

The vendor's footprint is almost entirely Forest Service incident management work—the company functions as a pre-positioned regional resource for rapid equipment and logistical mobilization during wildland fire operations and natural disasters. No prime contractors or subcontractual teaming relationships appear in the award record; Emergency Support Services operates as a pure equipment and services vendor to the Forest Service rather than as a systems integrator or sub-supplier to other federal contractors. The company's geographic concentration in the Southwest and recurring seasonal demand pattern make it a tactical, high-velocity operator rather than a diversified contractor, with competitive positioning grounded in equipment availability, regional presence, and rapid-response capability rather than broad federal customer relationships.