Iron Mountain Firefighting, Inc.

Iron Mountain Firefighting, Inc., operating as Iron Mountain Firefighting (a division of Francisco Cisneros III), is a Hispanic American-owned, minority-owned small business based in Independence, Oregon that supplies Type 2 wildland firefighting crews and equipment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor, exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates as a sole proprietorship and competes entirely within set-aside vehicles rather than full-and-open competitions.

Iron Mountain Firefighting's capability footprint is narrowly specialized: the company deploys Type 2 hand crews of 20 firefighters paired with fire engines, water tenders, bulldozers, and ancillary apparatus to support fire suppression, prevention, prescribed burning, hazardous fuels reduction, and emergency response across western national forests and regions. Representative work includes a $529,886 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) awarded September 2024 for wildland firefighting services through May 2026, a $269,090 delivery order from Region 4 (Intermountain) awarded October 2024, and a $247,525 delivery order from Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) also awarded October 2024, all under the parent IDIQ vehicle. The vendor also holds a $1.5 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management program for procuring Type 2 wildland firefighter crews annually through 2026, from which it receives ongoing task orders across nine western states.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 98% of awards by count and 100% of combined potential value. The Forest Service's regional offices dominate the split—Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) alone represents 22 awards valued at $3.2 million, followed by the consolidated Forest Service entity (13 awards, $53.7 million potential value), Region 5 (Pacific Southwest, 7 awards, $944 thousand), and Region 1 (Northern, 6 awards, $750 thousand). The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region contributes 2 awards valued at $413 thousand, representing the only non-Forest Service customer in the portfolio. Iron Mountain Firefighting's entire footprint rides on a single parent vehicle: the Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC22T2419, a $52.5 million multiple-award IDIQ set aside for total small businesses and extending through July 1, 2027. The vendor has drawn 48 task orders against this vehicle, accumulating $6.4 million in combined potential value.

Activity has contracted sharply. The vendor peaked at 20 awards in 2023, dropped to 15 in 2024, and has received only 7 awards across 2025 and 2026 combined (2 in 2025, 5 in 2026 through late August). Combined potential value across all 51 prime awards stands at $59.3 million, but only $6.8 million (11%) has been obligated—a signal that the vendor is holding task-order capacity rather than executing committed work at scale. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $502 thousand, exposing modest recompete risk on the horizon. Iron Mountain Firefighting operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint, and all work is classified under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS all 51 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC, all 51 awards). Place of performance spans California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, with individual task orders specifying operational bases in Redding, Hood River, Jackson, Vancouver, Roseburg, Ammon, Colville, Yreka, Wenatchee, Enumclaw, Helena, Medford, Springfield, Eureka, John Day, Ellensburg, Dalton Gardens, Missoula, Kalispell, Prineville, and Boise.