Fipps Kenneth

Fipps Kenneth, operating as Ken Fipps Transportation, a sole proprietorship based in Mariposa, California, provides pickup trucks with professional drivers for wildland fire and hazard incident response operations to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides. The vendor operates entirely within the Transportation NAICS category (primarily All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation) and the Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC, delivering on-demand emergency transportation assets positioned near active incident sites to support rapid personnel and equipment deployment during wildfire suppression and all-hazard response missions.

Ken Fipps Transportation's customer concentration is singular and narrow. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 100% of awards across four administrative subdivisions, dominated by the National Interagency Fire Center (3 awards, $750 thousand combined potential value). The vendor holds two indefinite delivery contracts under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, both issued by the National Interagency Fire Center with $250,000 ceilings each, running through June 7, 2028. The first VIPR IDC was awarded June 7, 2023, and the second on February 6, 2026 (under a Total Small Business set-aside), both covering Regions 5 and 6 (West Zone). Against these IDCs, Ken Fipps Transportation places firm fixed price delivery orders—a recent example is a $12,860.65 delivery order awarded September 1, 2025, by Region 5 for wildfire transportation services in Clovis, California, with completion September 21, 2025.

Activity spans eight prime awards since 2017, with a combined potential value of $942 thousand and only $42 thousand obligated to date (4% of potential value), reflecting the vendor's position on indefinite delivery vehicles where task orders are issued on demand against incident occurrence. The vendor does not subcontract and operates exclusively as a small-business prime. Historical performance includes task orders under blanket purchase agreements and prior indefinite delivery contracts across Forest Service Regions 5 and 6.