Heli-1 Corp

Heli-1 Corp, operating through its Heli-1 Corporation Division and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that provides exclusive-use and on-call helicopter aviation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under formal set-asides. The company operates a diverse fleet of Type 1, 2, and 3 helicopters to deliver fire suppression, aerial ignition, initial attack, cargo operations, prescribed burn support, search and rescue, law enforcement surveillance, and administrative aviation missions across the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Heli-1 Corp's federal footprint is concentrated almost entirely within civilian natural-resources and firefighting operations. The Department of Agriculture's National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) anchors the customer base, accounting for 63 awards and $220.2 million in combined potential value across the recent award portfolio—roughly 67% of all orders and 66% of total dollars. The Department of the Interior's bureaus make up the remainder: the Interior Business Center (5 awards, $56 million), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Western Region (7 awards, $21.9 million), the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (6 awards, $16.7 million), and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Mountain Region (7 awards, $9.6 million) together account for 25 awards and $102.2 million. These top five funding agencies represent 86% of recent award count and 98% of combined potential value. The vendor does not operate as a subcontractor; 100% of recent awards are prime positions.

Heli-1 Corp holds multiple parent indefinite delivery vehicles with NIFC and the Department of Interior totaling approximately $160 million in aggregate ceiling value through the early-to-mid 2030s. The largest vehicles are the Type 1 Helicopter Support Services IDIQ (2025–2034, $50 million ceiling, 7 task orders, $16.5 million combined value); the Helicopter Support Services–Type 2 IDIQ (2024–2033, $50 million ceiling, 7 task orders, $29.2 million combined value); the Type 3 Helicopter Support Services IDIQ (2023–2032, $10 million ceiling, 8 task orders, $2.2 million combined value); and the On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services IDIQ (2022–2027, $49.5 million ceiling, multiple award, Total Small Business set-aside). Single-award Bureau of Indian Affairs contracts for exclusive-use Type III service at Crow Agency ($6.5 million, 2022–2027, Total Small Business) and Double Eagle, New Mexico ($13 million, 2025–2030, Total Small Business) round out the portfolio. Recent representative orders include a $8.755 million Grants Pass, Oregon exclusive-use Type 1 delivery order (NIFC, May 2025, Total Small Business set-aside), a $6.385 million Altoona, Florida exclusive-use Type 1 delivery order (NIFC, March 2025, Total Small Business set-aside), and a $4.138 million Ketchum, Idaho Type 2 delivery order (NIFC, March 2026, no set-aside).

Activity volume has remained stable to declining year over year: 19 awards in 2022, 18 in 2023, 18 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 12 awards in 2026 to date. The combined potential value across all 102 recent prime awards totals $331.1 million, with $83.9 million obligated to date (25% of ceiling). Within the next twenty-four months, 8 awards with combined potential value of $3.6 million reach ultimate completion and face recompete. Service Contract Inventory data capturing federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows $12.6 million in SCI-reported invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $2.2 million across 3.5 FTEs; FY2023: $2.5 million across 3.7 FTEs; FY2024: $7.9 million across 8.6 FTEs), with government-paid hourly rates running a median of $308.51/hr (10th percentile $237.46/hr, 90th percentile $651.35/hr). Heli-1 Corp self-performs all reported work; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share is zero percent. The vendor competes under primary NAICS codes 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation, 61 awards) and 481212 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation, 41 awards), with PSC codes reflecting forest-range fire suppression and passenger air charter services.

Helicopter air transportation