Glacier Fire, LLC

Glacier Fire, LLC, a minority-owned, Native American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Butte, Montana, provides water handling services and wildland fire suppression support to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor competes exclusively under set-aside vehicles and holds positions on two Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling and fire management resources across USDA Forest Service Regions 3 and 8, with optional use by the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Glacier Fire operates across 100% of its recent awards as a prime contractor, with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's customer base is concentrated entirely within the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center — the same funding entity. Two IDCs account for $750 thousand of the vendor's combined potential value: a $500,000 multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded February 6, 2026, with a completion date of May 6, 2030, and a $250,000 multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded May 6, 2025, also completing May 6, 2030. Both are firm fixed price, total small business set-asides structured as Virtual Incident Procurement Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (VIPR I-BPAs) under which task orders are issued for specific incident response and fire suppression operations. Delivery orders placed against these IDCs include a $74,250 order issued August 17, 2026, by Region 3 for water handling and fire protection support in Santa Fe, New Mexico (ultimate completion September 2, 2026); a $31,500 order issued July 31, 2026, by Region 2 for performance in Durango, Colorado (completion August 6, 2026); a $31,500 order issued May 14, 2025, by Region 3 for Springerville, Arizona (completion May 20, 2025); and a $4,500 order issued June 20, 2025, by Region 3 for Silver City, New Mexico (completion June 20, 2025). Compensation is structured on proposed rates for up to 16-hour daily shifts, subject to annual review and rate adjustment by the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management Regional Program Office.

Activity shows modest early volume with three awards in 2025 and three in 2026, generating $892 thousand in combined potential value, of which $142 thousand has been obligated. Glacier Fire's scope of work is specialized and geographically concentrated: the vendor supplies equipment, personnel, transportation, and logistical resources for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response, with vendor selection prioritized by proximity to dispatch centers in Regions 3 and 8 to ensure timely response. All work falls under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression and NAICS Support Activities for Forestry.

Glacier Fire, LLC is a Montana-based wildland firefighting contractor providing trained wildland firefighter crews, Type 6 engines, and wildfire suppression services, wildfire containment, and fire line operations in remote and rugged terrain. The company delivers wildland fire management, wildfire mitigation, and incident response support to federal, state, tribal, and local agencies responsible for protecting natural resources and communities from wildfire threats.