High Performance Helicopters Corp

High Performance Helicopters Corp, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Redlands, California, operates as a prime contractor delivering helicopter support services for wildland fire suppression, monitoring, and environmental restoration projects to the federal government. The company competes in full-and-open, non-set-aside awards despite its small disadvantaged business designation; all sixteen awards in the source are undesignated, full-and-open procurements. High Performance Helicopters' capability portfolio centers on chartered helicopter operations under NAICS 488119 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation), with fifteen of sixteen awards falling into that category. Work includes contracted aircraft provision for fire suppression and reconnaissance missions, stream restoration projects using helicopter-delivered logs and wood placement, and aviation support across the Forest Service's wildland fire management operations.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 10 awards valued at $129.7 million in combined potential value — effectively 99% of High Performance Helicopters' recent pipeline — with subordinate activity routed through the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (four awards, $516 thousand) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (two awards, $237 thousand). Both top-customer rankings are identical, reflecting no tension between volume and dollar concentration. Representative prime work includes two recent delivery orders from the National Interagency Fire Center under the Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025–2034 vehicle (July 2026, $298 thousand and $697 thousand respectively), a $241 thousand total-small-business stream restoration purchase order from the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (October 2023), and a $21 thousand delivery order for fire and aviation management support (September 2023). High Performance Helicopters also holds two indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center: a $50 million multiple-award Type 1 Helicopter Support Services contract running through December 2034 (awarded January 2025) and a $50 million multiple-award Type 2 Helicopter Support Services contract through December 2033 (awarded January 2024). Task orders under the Basic Ordering Agreement 12024B20G5032 total three orders valued at $353 thousand.

Activity has been episodic — one award in 2022, four in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with $5.8 million in combined obligations against $130.5 million in combined potential value across all awards, indicating substantial unexercised optionality on the two large indefinite delivery contracts. The company operates 100% as a prime contractor with no sub-award exposure. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal SCI-reportable service-contract activity: 2.8 FTEs in FY2024 and 5.5 FTEs in FY2025, both years reported as named subcontractor records; this reflects that SCI is a partial view capturing only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excluding goods, helicopter charter operations, and most of the company's core fire-support delivery model. High Performance Helicopters' federal footprint is aircraft-centric and mission-specific, anchored to a single customer bureau with no teaming relationships or sub-engagement across the visible award record.