Ertl Raymond

Ertl Raymond, doing business as DRE Water Service, operates as a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship providing water handling services—water tenders, transportation, equipment, and trained personnel support—to the U.S. Forest Service for wildfire suppression and emergency response operations. All twenty-six recent prime awards are set under Total Small Business or full-and-open designations, with the vendor competing exclusively as a prime contractor (100% prime footprint, no subcontract work).

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 92% of award count and 98% of combined potential value across all twenty-six awards, with work distributed across five internal Forest Service offices. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollar pool with three awards worth $1 million combined potential value—two Indefinite Delivery Contracts ($250,000 each, through June 2025 and June 2030) and one recent multiple-award IDC worth $500,000 awarded on February 6, 2026, covering water handling for Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) through June 4, 2030. The remaining awards are delivery orders placed against these parent IDCs. Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) and Region 3 (Southwestern Region) account for the majority of smaller task orders, with representative recent work including a $40,000 delivery order issued August 14, 2026, for water handling services in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a $34,500 order the same date, and a $25,300 delivery order from September 9, 2025, for Clovis, California fire suppression support.

The vendor holds four named Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements. The $500,000 Region 5 IDC (award date February 6, 2026) is the largest vehicle and carries a ceiling running through June 2030. A $250,000 IDC covering Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 (award date June 4, 2025) and an earlier $250,000 IDC (award date June 10, 2022, ultimate completion June 6, 2025) support the majority of delivery-order flow. Delivery orders against these vehicles average $16,000–$25,000 and complete within two to four weeks. The vendor's award activity shows recent acceleration—one award in 2020, one in 2022, one in 2024, five in 2025, and four in 2026—but the portfolio remains narrow in scope and geography, concentrated on Forest Service water-support logistics in the Southwest and Pacific Southwest regions, with places of performance in Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and Clovis, California.

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