Hammond Helicopter LLC

Hammond Helicopter LLC, a small business based in Nephi, Utah, provides aerial seeding, herbicide application, and pest-control spraying services to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture as a sole-proprietor prime contractor competing exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates across six western states (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming) and specializes in landscape restoration, post-fire rehabilitation, and grasshopper and Mormon cricket population management on federal lands.

The vendor's customer concentration is split between landscape restoration and pest management. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine division anchors the dollar value with a single-award IDIQ contract worth $823,886 for grasshopper and Mormon cricket aerial treatment across six states, running through April 30, 2027, accounting for roughly 63% of combined potential value across all awards. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona Region leads by award count with four purchase orders totaling $128 thousand for post-fire emergency stabilization and herbicide application; BLM Idaho Region and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 each hold two awards ($57 thousand and $56 thousand combined potential value respectively), while BLM Colorado Region accounts for a single $200 thousand post-fire seeding award. Together, these five customer organizations represent 100% of recent awards.

Representative work includes a $200,434 aerial seeding delivery order from BLM Colorado Region (February 2026) for broadcast seeding across 25,533 acres burned by the Lee, Deer Creek, and Sowbelly fires; a $79,576 herbicide application order from BLM Arizona Region (March 2026) for Tebuthiuron treatment across 2,744 acres in the San Pedro National Conservation Area; and a $22,500 Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 purchase order (February 2025) for aerial seeding at the Utah Test and Training Range. The APHIS single-award IDIQ is Hammond Helicopter's only non-small-business vehicle and the sole parent contract identified in the source, placing one task order for $500.

Activity has been intermittent but recently accelerated: one award in 2020, one in 2022, five in 2025, and four in 2026 (most recent September 25, 2026). Obligated dollars stand at $442 thousand against combined potential value of $1.3 million (35% realization rate). Three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months represent $100 thousand in recompete exposure. The vendor operates solely as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint appears in the source. NAICS concentration runs between Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (six awards) and Support Activities for Forestry (five awards), with PSC coding dominated by Natural Resources/Conservation—Aerial Seeding (five awards) and Aerial Fertilization/Spraying (two awards).