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, eradication, and aerial survey operations to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor exclusively — all 53 awards in its recent footprint are prime contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles with no subcontract work. The vendor competes entirely under total small business set-asides across its active portfolio.

The company's capability footprint centers on rotary-wing commercial aviation for federal land and wildlife management. Work includes helicopter-supported bison capture and herding at national parks and wildlife refuges, feral burro gather and removal, elk and bison population surveys and census operations, and on-call Type III helicopter flight services for wildland firefighting, search and rescue, law enforcement surveillance, and invasive-species removal. Representative prime awards include a $140,000 total small business BPA call from the National Park Service's Midwest Region (September 2025) for bison capture operations at Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wind Cave National Parks in South Dakota, a $98,904 purchase order from the National Park Service's Pacific West Region (September 2024) for feral burro gather and removal at Mojave National Preserve, and a $109,302 delivery order from USDA APHIS Wildlife Services (December 2023) for helicopter services supporting wildlife management operations.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Interior. The top five customers by potential value account for 99% of combined potential value, led by the Interior Business Center (7 awards, $77.8 million combined potential value) and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (5 awards, $10.5 million), with USDA Wildlife Services placing the most individual task orders (16 awards, $3.5 million). The National Park Service Midwest Region anchors recurring small-dollar BPA call activity (7 awards, $348 thousand combined potential value).

Helicopter Roundup Service LLC holds three active prime indefinite-delivery vehicles. A $49.5 million multiple-award IDC with the Interior Business Center (May 2022 through April 2027) covers on-call Type III helicopter flight services across the continental United States for wildland firefighting, search and rescue, law enforcement, and wildlife operations. An $11 million single-award BPA with the Interior Business Center (May 2025 through April 2030) funds on-call helicopter services for Animal Capture, Eradication, and Tagging of Animals (ACETA) and Wild Horse and Burro programs across the Lower 48 States, with three BPA calls issued to date. A $1.5 million single-award IDC with USDA APHIS Wildlife Services (May 2026 through April 2031) provides rotary-wing commercial aviation services for wildlife damage management operations in Nevada and bordering states, estimated at 60–100 helicopter flight hours per ordering period with a pilot holding Commercial Pilot Certificate with instrument rating. The vendor's four active task orders under these vehicles total $273 thousand and complete within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in 2027–2028. Activity has remained flat — three to six awards per year over the past five years, with 2026 tracking at five awards — and the vendor obligated only $2 million against a combined potential value of $92.8 million across all awards, indicating work is heavily task-order dependent and backlog conversion is discretionary.