Helicopter Roundup Service LLC

Helicopter Roundup Service LLC, a small-business limited-liability company based in Nephi, Utah, provides Type III helicopter flight services for wildlife capture, herding, population surveys, and aerial eradication operations exclusively as a prime contractor to federal land and wildlife management agencies under total small business set-asides. The company holds three active indefinite-delivery vehicles (IDVs) with the Department of the Interior and USDA, positioning it as a specialized aerial contractor for federal wildlife management missions across the Lower 48 States.

The company's customer concentration sits with two Interior entities anchoring the dollar value, though work volume tracks across a broader set of wildlife agencies. The Interior Business Center accounts for seven awards worth $77.8 million in combined potential value — the vast majority of Helicopter Roundup Service's pipeline — while the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services drives transaction volume with sixteen awards valued at $3.5 million combined. The National Park Service Midwest Region contributes nine awards ($412 thousand combined value), and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region adds five awards ($10.5 million combined value). This concentration reflects the vendor's specialization: the Interior Business Center's $49.5 million multiple-award IDC for on-call Type III helicopter services (May 2022 through April 2027), an $11 million single-award BPA for Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging (ACETA) and Wild Horse and Burro programs (May 2025 through April 2030), and a $1.5 million single-award IDC with USDA APHIS Wildlife Services for rotary-wing aviation in Nevada and bordering states (May 2026 through April 2031) form the backbone of the award portfolio.

Recent task-order work exemplifies the scope. In September 2026, the National Park Service issued a $40,513 BPA call for bison gathering at Badlands National Park (completion September 2027); in September 2026, the Intermountain Region awarded a $77,296 call for livestock roundup at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (completion September 2027); in August 2026, the Midwest Region issued a $23,760 call for cattle removal at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota (completion August 2027); and in June 2026, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a $48,164 call for bison herding at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma (completion December 2026). Helicopter Roundup Service also held a prior $140,000 BPA call from the National Park Service for bison capture at Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wind Cave National Parks (completion August 2026). All work carries firm fixed-price pricing and total small business set-aside designations.

Activity has remained steady but modest — four awards in 2022 and 2023, ramping to six in 2024, three in 2025, and seven in 2026 through mid-September. Five awards with combined potential value of $190 thousand complete within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's portfolio spans 55 total awards with combined potential value of $92.8 million, though only $2 million has been obligated (2%), reflecting the large ceiling values on the parent IDVs relative to actual task-order drawdown. Helicopter Roundup Service operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source contains no subcontract activity. NAICS coding reflects aerial passenger charter (481211) and other nonscheduled air transportation classifications, with PSC codes tracking to passenger air charter and aerial conservation work.