Guidance Air Service LLC

Guidance Air Service LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business partnership based in Prescott, Arizona, operates as a prime contractor delivering Type 1, 2, and 3 helicopter support services for wildland fire management, animal capture and eradication, and aerial survey operations to federal natural-resource agencies. The vendor competes under full-and-open vehicles without set-aside designations on its largest parent IDIQs, though individual task orders under the Department of the Interior BPA consistently carry Total Small Business set-asides.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) — a civilian coordinating agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service — anchors 41 of 45 prime awards (91% of activity) and $71.1 million of the $82.5 million combined potential value across all awards. The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey, and Fish and Wildlife Service collectively account for the remaining 4 awards and $11.4 million in potential value. This customer concentration is matched by vehicle concentration: 19 task orders under the $50 million Helicopter Support Services - Type 2 IDIQ (awarded January 2024, running through December 2033) and 19 task orders under the $10 million Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023-2032 IDIQ generate $7.6 million of the vendor's recent work. A single-award $11 million Interior Business Center BPA for animal capture, eradication, and tagging operations (May 2025 through April 2030) supports three calls across USGS, Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2, and Bureau of Land Management for tribal horse surveys, Mexican gray wolf capture, and wild burro surveys.

Recent delivery orders under NIFC's Type 2 vehicle range from roughly $30,500 to $263,700 and support aerial fire suppression, monitoring, reconnaissance, and transport in Prescott, Arizona through December 2027 and beyond. Type 3 delivery orders carry similar magnitude and geographic scope, with one $3.09 million multi-year order for Round Valley operations running through December 2028. The Interior BPA calls, set aside for Total Small Business, ranged from $70,000 (wild burro survey in Nevada, September 2025) to $177,000 (Mexican gray wolf annual survey in New Mexico, December 2025).

Activity has remained roughly flat — 16 awards in 2023, 12 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 4 in the first five months of 2026. Twenty-one awards carrying combined potential value of $2.1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to significant recompete risk across both NIFC IDIQs. The vendor holds no subcontract relationships in the source data; all 45 awards are prime contracts or IDV positions. Guidance Air Service operates directly as a rotorcraft operator with no named subcontractor involvement, delivering specialized aerial services for federal wildland fire management and natural-resource operations across the lower 48 States, Canada, and Mexico. The vendor's footprint is characterized by firm fixed-price, full-and-open competition on large fire-support vehicles anchored by NIFC, paired with smaller set-aside work under Interior's animal-management programs.