Heiman Inc.

Heiman Inc., operating through its Heiman Fire Equipment division, manufactures and supplies wildland firefighting equipment and components to federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, competing in full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, focused on high-pressure pump systems, slip-on firefighting units, brush truck attachments, and fire suppression equipment for land management operations.

Customer concentration centers on Department of the Interior agencies. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region accounts for six awards with $2.8 million in combined potential value — dominating both volume and dollar share among the 16 distinct federal customer agencies served across 33 total awards. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6, and Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation together account for most remaining dollars. The two top-customer rankings track closely: BLM Alaska Region leads both by award count and potential value, reflecting Heiman's deep embedded position supplying Mark-3 high-pressure pump replacement parts and repair components for Alaska's wildland fire operations.

Heiman holds two active Blanket Purchase Agreements as a prime. A single-award BPA from BLM Alaska Region awarded March 24, 2026, carries a $1 million ceiling extending through March 31, 2031, for Mark-3 pump parts and related fire suppression components. An earlier multiple-award BPA from the same customer, awarded February 14, 2023, with a $1.4 million ceiling through February 14, 2026 (now expired), generated three call orders totaling $293 thousand under firm fixed-price structures. Recent representative work includes a $664 thousand purchase order from USDA Forest Service (May 2022) for Waterax Mark-3 OEM pump parts to resupply Northeast, Northwest, and Northern Rockies fire cache locations in Missoula, Montana; a $166 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 (January 2026) for a Great Plains Fuels Management Zone fire engine; and a $124 thousand Air Force Global Strike Command set-aside purchase order (July 2025) for a brush truck fire attachment to Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.

Activity has remained modest and variable — one award in 2022, four in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, and four in 2026 to date. Three awards with combined potential value of $308 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore front recompete exposure for the vendor and recompete opportunity for competitors. Heiman operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards), with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The vendor's awards split across total small business set-asides (the majority) and full-and-open procurements; awards under set-aside designation account for most of Heiman's dollar volume. NAICS category concentration reflects the vendor's dual posture as both retailer and manufacturer: All Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers (7 awards), Service Establishment Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (5 awards), Measuring, Dispensing, and Other Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (4 awards), and Fluid Power Pump and Motor Manufacturing (4 awards) dominate the classification spread.

Heiman Fire Equipment has small-town roots based in Ashton, Iowa. The company was founded by Jack B. Heiman in 1947, and has been family-owned and operated locally since then.

Building on its modest beginnings of selling fire extinguishers to local farmers in the Ashton area, the company has evolved into a state-of-the-art fire truck manufacturing company located in Sioux Falls, SD., with a nationwide fire equipment catalog sales business that is still based in Ashton, Iowa.