Esrys

Esrys, a small-business limited liability partnership based in Grass Valley, California, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, water handling systems, and trained personnel to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small-business set-asides, competing 100% on reserved vehicles rather than full-and-open competitions.

Esrys operates entirely as a prime contractor — all 36 awards in the source portfolio are prime awards with no subcontract activity. The vendor holds six Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service regional offices, each worth $250,000 to $500,000, from which task orders are issued on an as-needed basis to support emergency wildfire suppression and forestry management. These IDCs cover vehicle-with-driver services (pickup trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles with certified drivers) and water handling equipment (Type 1, 2, 3, and 6 fire engines and support water tenders) across Forest Service Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 in the western United States. Recent representative delivery orders include a $30.4 thousand order in September 2025 for water handling and vehicles in Clovis, California; a $25.9 thousand order in August 2023 for water tenders and drivers in the Pacific Southwest Region; and a $10.45 thousand order in August 2026 for fire suppression support in Grass Valley under a total small-business set-aside.

Customer concentration is monolithic: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 100% of awards across five internal customer segments, with the National Interagency Fire Center dominating by potential value (11 awards, $2.3 million combined) despite lower order count relative to the Pacific Southwest Region (15 awards, $291 thousand combined). The vendor's five largest parent IDCs carry 24 task orders and $681 thousand in combined potential value, with the highest-volume vehicle (IDC 1202SB22T7784) supporting 11 task orders at $223 thousand.

Activity has remained consistent but modest in scale — 36 total awards across a decade of sourcing — with combined potential value of $3.3 million and only $701 thousand obligated year-to-date (22% of potential). Award volume peaked at 7 deliveries in 2022, declined to 2 in 2025, and recovered to 5 in 2026. Work is performed at Grass Valley (primary base of operations) and subordinate performance locations in Clovis, California; Irvine, California; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, with mobilization across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10. Esrys registered for federal contracting in November 2015 and competes exclusively on small-business set-aside IDICs, with no exposure to full-and-open or other set-aside categories in the award record.