Fishhead Contracting LLC

Fishhead Contracting LLC, a small business limited liability company based in Worley, Idaho, supplies equipment and services for wildfire suppression and emergency incident response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates through indefinite-delivery contracts and delivery orders under the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and regional USFS agreements, providing heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, tractor plows), off-highway vehicles, vehicle-with-driver services, water trucks, and handwashing stations across USFS regions in the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest.

Fishhead's customer footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top customer by both award count and dollar volume is the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center, which accounts for 10 awards and $2.8 million of the vendor's $3.1 million combined potential value. Regional USFS offices in Regions 1 (Northern), 4 (Intermountain), 2 (Rocky Mountain), and 6 (Pacific Northwest) round out the active set, with a single award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region. The concentration reflects a specialized market position: of 21 awards, 20 fall under the Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC category, with the portfolio dominated by support activities for forestry (10 awards) and ground passenger transportation (6 awards).

Fishhead holds ten indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, each with a $250,000 ceiling and performance periods extending through 2029–2031. These include VIPR I-BPA vehicles for off-highway equipment, heavy equipment for East Zone regions (1, 2, 4, and 9), potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations, and vehicle-with-driver services for Regions 1 and 4. The vendor also holds IDCs with the U.S. Forest Service for heavy equipment and vehicle-with-driver services for Region 4. Delivery orders against these vehicles have generated four active task orders under contract 1202RZ26T7071 ($28 thousand combined value), two under 12024B26T7429 ($51 thousand), and one each under three other IDCs. Recent representative work includes a $94,932.48 delivery order from USDA Region 2 for equipment support in Durango, Colorado (August 5, 2026); a $30,420 delivery order from USDA Region 1 for emergency response equipment and services in Hamilton, Montana (July 28, 2026); and a $39,304 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region for an excavator in Boise (June 1, 2025).

Activity accelerated from five awards in 2025 to sixteen in 2026, with $352 thousand obligated across the portfolio (11% of $3.1 million combined potential value), indicating early-stage task-order drawdown against newly awarded IDCs. Place of performance spans the Western region: Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 of the USFS, plus regional offices in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, and Colorado.