HEK Jones LLC

HEK Jones LLC, a small-business partnership based in Enterprise, Oregon, provides wildland firefighting equipment and personnel support to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively, competing under Total Small Business set-asides on delivery orders and holding multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts across Forest Service regions.

The vendor operates in the concrete capability space of water handling equipment, fire engines, and tactical water suppression resources for wildland fire management. HEK Jones supplies water tenders (Types 1, 2, and 3), fire engines (Types 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), and trained personnel to support fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Representative work includes a $98,963 Total Small Business delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) on August 11, 2026, for wildland firefighting services in Baker City, Oregon; a $133,139 delivery order from the same region on July 9, 2025, for water handling equipment support in Lakeview, Oregon; and a $102,937 delivery order from Region 6 on August 12, 2025, in Baker City for emergency response resources. The vendor also holds purchase orders from the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, including a $55,920 order on June 1, 2025, for a Type 3 engine and a $34,924 order for water handling equipment, both completed in Boise.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrowly regional. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 89 of 134 awards (67% of the award count) and $3.3 million of the $5.9 million combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center (an administrative body within USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management) holds 11 awards valued at $1.2 million, and Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) accounts for 6 awards worth $343 thousand. The vendor's customer base comprises eight agencies, but 92% of the award count and 89% of potential value flow from three USDA Forest Service entities. The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region represents the only non-USDA customer of material size, with six purchase orders totaling $179 thousand.

HEK Jones holds three Indefinite Delivery Contracts, all set aside for small businesses and covering water handling services. The largest is a $500,000 IDC awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center for Region 6 water handling, running through May 29, 2030. A $250,000 IDC awarded May 29, 2025, also by the Fire Center, covers Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) water handling for Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 and has generated 26 delivery orders worth $787 thousand. A third $250,000 IDC awarded June 6, 2022, for West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10) water handling services, expired June 6, 2025, but issued 33 delivery orders totaling $1.4 million before completion. These three IDVs anchor nearly all of the vendor's task order activity.

Activity has grown materially in the past four years. Awards per year rose from 6 in 2023 to 23 in 2026 (year to date through August). The vendor's entire award footprint is recent and concentrated in fire-season delivery orders—the oldest award in the source data dates to June 2005, but the bulk of activity clusters in the 2022–2026 window. No recompete cliff is evident; the vendor's three-year IDC stack (2025–2030) provides a rolling pipeline of task orders. The vendor competes exclusively under set-asides; no full-and-open awards appear in the source. All awards are firm fixed price and most carry no set-aside designation at the delivery order level—they are task orders flowing from underlying small-business IDVs. HEK Jones has no subcontract footprint; all awards list the vendor as 100% prime contractor.

The vendor's NAICS profile reflects its narrow focus: 130 of 134 awards fall under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry), with PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression covering 128 awards. Geographic performance is concentrated in western states—primarily Oregon, Washington, California, and New Mexico—with task order execution at incident locations across Forest Service regions and occasional BLM work in Idaho. The vendor operates as a lean, mission-specific contractor with no parent company, subsidiaries, or teaming relationships evident in the source material.