Frank Leyba

Frank Leyba, a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned sole proprietorship based in Mora, New Mexico, provides wildland fire suppression equipment, vehicles with drivers, and incident response support services to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on delivery orders and multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement system.

Frank Leyba is a self-certified small disadvantaged business operating under NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 488410 (All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation). The vendor's award footprint centers entirely on wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and forest management operations in the Southwestern and Intermountain United States, with no subcontract activity or sub-recipient status across the source data.

The vendor's customer base is wholly concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) anchors the dollar value with four awards worth $1.3 million combined potential value — the two primary IDV vehicles that structure the vendor's work. The Southwestern Region (Region 3) provides the volume, accounting for nine awards totaling $175 thousand combined potential value. The Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2), Intermountain Region (Region 4), and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region round out the active set. The two rankings align: the National Interagency Fire Center dominates both volume and dollars through the IDV framework, while Region 3 drives delivery-order frequency for executing work on the ground.

Frank Leyba holds four Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement program. Two were awarded in February 2026 — a $500 thousand chipper services IDC (multiple-award, Total Small Business set-aside, running through April 2029) and a $250 thousand vehicle-with-driver IDC for Region 3 operations (multiple-award, Total Small Business set-aside, running through April 2028). Two predecessor vehicles were awarded in April 2024 and April 2023 — a $250 thousand chipper IDC (running through April 2029) and a $250 thousand vehicle-with-driver IDC (running through April 2028). Against these IDVs, Frank Leyba has issued eleven delivery orders totaling roughly $400 thousand in combined potential value. Representative work includes a $51.2 million delivery order from Region 4 (Intermountain) in September 2024 for unspecified forest management and incident response services, a $40.7 thousand Region 3 delivery order in July 2025, and a $32.85 thousand Region 3 delivery order in May 2026 for wildland fire suppression equipment or services. Two recent Total Small Business set-aside delivery orders from Region 3 in June 2026 carry ceilings of $32.85 thousand and $19.4 thousand.

Activity has grown modestly — two awards in 2023 to six in 2024, followed by five in 2025 and four in 2026. Only $284 thousand of the $1.5 million combined potential value has been obligated, reflecting the IDV structure's reliance on dispatch-driven delivery orders for utilization. Frank Leyba operates exclusively in the Southwestern, Intermountain, and Rocky Mountain regions, with performance locations spanning Santa Fe, Taos, Alamogordo, Silver City, and Durango, and serves USDA Forest Service dispatch centers on an as-needed basis for rapid mobilization of chipper equipment and vehicles with drivers to support wildland fire suppression and emergency incident response.