Fine Suzanne

Fine Suzanne, doing business as Bhumble Soils, is a woman-owned sole proprietorship based in Madras, Oregon that supplies water handling equipment, water tenders, and personnel services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor, competing almost exclusively under small business set-asides on its core indefinite delivery contracts and in full-and-open competition on individual delivery orders.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on a narrow, specialized capability: providing Type 1, 2, and 3 support water tenders; Type 3, 4, 5, and 6 fire engines; and associated water handling materials, transportation, and personnel to support incident response across the western United States. The company holds three primary indefinite delivery contracts, all total small business set-asides valued at $250,000 each — one with the Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region running through May 2030 (awarded February 2026), a second also with Region 6 running through May 2030 (awarded May 2025), and a third covering the West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10) that concluded in June 2025. From these IDCs, Fine Suzanne places numerous firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from $1,250 to $50,933, representing the majority of its federal contract activity. Recent examples include a $4,383 delivery order from Region 6 on May 8, 2026 for water handling services, a $42,000 order from August 2023 for water tender support, and a $48,600 order from August 2023 also for water handling services — all under total small business set-asides at the IDC level despite individual delivery orders carrying no set-aside designation.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in a single region. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest Region accounts for 96 of 115 total awards and $1.6 million of the $2.6 million combined potential value across the vendor's recent portfolio, representing 83% of award count and 62% of dollars. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management division at the National Interagency Fire Center holds nine awards worth $809 thousand. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region and the Forest Service central office together account for 10 awards and $181 thousand. This concentration reflects the vendor's operational posture: a regional wildfire-response contractor tightly integrated into Pacific Northwest incident management, with secondary presence in the Intermountain West through BLM work.

Vehicle position consists of three named indefinite delivery contracts and two blanket purchase agreements, all held with USDA Forest Service entities. IDC 1202SB22T7834 carries 36 task orders worth $557 thousand; BPA AG04H1B167451 supports 25 task orders for $224 thousand; IDC 1204H119T7193 holds 16 task orders for $189 thousand; IDC 1204H125T7238 anchors 15 task orders for $118 thousand; and BPA AG04H1B107063 carries five task orders for $71 thousand. Fine Suzanne places no orders against government-wide vehicles, GSA Schedules, or multi-agency IDIQs — all activity is routed through narrow, single-agency procurement vehicles.

Activity has grown from ten awards in 2022 to twenty in 2025, with six awards recorded to date in 2026. Award velocity has accelerated in the past two years, driven by seasonal fire-suppression demand and refresh cycles on water-tender equipment. Combined dollars obligated stand at $1.3 million of $2.6 million combined potential value, indicating a 50% realization rate typical for open-delivery IDC contracts where not all ceiling capacity converts to actual orders.

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. NAICS coding reflects the specialization: 114 of 115 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 115310), with one transit and ground passenger transportation award. Primary PSC coding is Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (114R), with five awards coded to Fire Fighting Equipment. This narrow coding profile underscores a vendor with a single, well-defined mission within federal procurement: rapid-response water-handling support for regional wildfire operations.