Fireco, Inc.

Fireco, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged and woman-owned business headquartered in Boise, Idaho, supplies wildland fire equipment and support services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Interagency Fire Center. Fireco operates as a Subchapter S corporation and has received 138 prime federal awards worth $78.9 million in combined potential value over the past several years, with obligated dollars of $6.1 million across active task orders and contracts.

Fireco's core capability portfolio centers on wildland fire equipment rental and incident response support. The company supplies wildland fire engines (Types 1–6), water handling equipment including water tenders and support tenders, heavy equipment rental (dozers, excavators, masticators, graders, mulchers, feller bunchers, and skidders), prescribed fire crewing in crew modules of 5, 10, and 20 personnel, mastication and vegetation treatment services, and transportation and logistics for fire suppression and prescribed burning operations. Representative prime work includes a $50 million Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA awarded by Forest Service Region 6 on April 7, 2023, extending through October 2032; a $7.5 million indefinite-delivery contract with the National Interagency Fire Center for Type 2 firefighter crews under total small business set-aside (June 23, 2026); and a $526.5 million definitive contract under the Inflation Reduction Act with Forest Service Region 5 for prescribed fire and pile burning support (August 19, 2024). Fireco also holds a $1 million single-award IDIQ with Forest Service Region 8 for prescribed fire support services on Texas National Forests and Grasslands through March 31, 2027.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Forest Service and its subordinate regional offices. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 96 percent of awards, led by Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) at 15 awards and $50.7 million in combined potential value, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (24 awards, $13.7 million), Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (15 awards, $8.2 million), Forest Service Region 4 Intermountain (29 awards, $1.5 million), and Forest Service Region 5 Pacific Southwest (8 awards, $1.4 million). The volume concentration (by award count) centers on Region 4 Intermountain with 29 awards, while dollar concentration anchors on Region 6's large Blanket Purchase Agreement. The vendor also works with the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region for mastication and vegetation treatment services.

Fireco holds a substantial vehicle portfolio consisting of multiple indefinite-delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements across Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center. The $50 million Pacific Northwest Stewardship BPA (Region 6) is the single largest vehicle. The National Interagency Fire Center awarded multiple indefinite-delivery contracts in 2025 and 2026 with $250 thousand to $500 thousand ceilings each for water handling, heavy equipment, refrigerated trailers, and firefighter crews across East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, 9), West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6), and regional-specific zones through 2029–2030. The top five parent vehicles by task-order volume include VIPR I-BPA contracts (IDC 1202SB22T7266 with 14 task orders worth $538 thousand; IDC 1202SB25T7883 with 12 task orders worth $739 thousand; IDC 1202SB22T7788 with 10 task orders worth $478 thousand) and corresponding Blanket Purchase Agreements (AG04H1B167416 with 13 task orders worth $381 thousand; AG84M8B167037 with 11 task orders worth $247 thousand). Work is performed across the western United States—primarily Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming—with subordinate dispatch centers supporting field operations during fire season and emergency response cycles.

Activity has grown substantially, from 12 awards in 2022 to 26 in 2024 and 26 in 2026 (through October). The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is minimal, with only two awards (combined potential value $157 thousand) reaching ultimate completion by October 2028. Fireco's award portfolio is 100 percent prime work with no subcontract participation recorded in the source data. The vendor's set-aside posture is characteristic of small business federal contracting: 129 of 138 awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), and 121 awards are classified under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, with the remainder distributed across equipment rental and transportation categories. Most recent awards (August–October 2026) include delivery orders for prescribed fire support and heavy equipment rental across Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, with individual delivery order values ranging from $4,200 to $154,340 and reflecting short performance windows of days to weeks aligned with fire season demand cycles.