Hme, Inc.

Hme, Inc., doing business as HME Ahrens-Fox, a Wyoming, Michigan–based manufacturer of custom fire engines and firefighting apparatus, operates as a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and competes entirely as a prime contractor (37 awards, 100% of recent portfolio), with no subcontract footprint. The vendor manufactures specialized wildland and structural fire apparatus across Type 1 through Type 6 configurations and water tenders, delivering to federal civilian and defense agencies on firm fixed-price delivery orders under GSA Multiple Award Schedules and agency-specific indefinite delivery contracts. HME Ahrens-Fox is not designated as a small business across most of its prime work; however, five awards carry total small business set-aside designations, and the vendor holds one single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Defense Logistics Agency valued at $889.8 million extending through January 2031.

Customer concentration is extreme and bifurcated by dollar magnitude. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 17 awards (81% of award count) carrying $91.1 million in combined potential value, making it the dominant customer by frequency and the second-largest by dollars obligated; however, the single Defense Logistics Agency DLA Troop Support indefinite delivery contract anchors $889.8 million of the $997.4 million combined portfolio value — representing 89% of total potential value across all awards. GSA Federal Acquisition Service ranks third with six awards valued at $7.6 million. NASA's Shared Services Center and the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region round out the active customer set. The vast majority of work flows through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle, under which 23 task orders carry $79.1 million in combined potential value; the DLA IDC, awarded January 14, 2026, establishes a separate procurement channel for defense agency fire apparatus procurement across CONUS, OCONUS, and overseas locations.

Recent activity accelerated sharply in 2025 (ten awards compared to three in 2024), driven primarily by the January 2026 DLA award and multiple Forest Service delivery orders for Type 3H, Type 6, and Type 2 Tactical Water Tender apparatus bodies on government-furnished chassis. Representative work includes a $7.5 million total small business set-aside delivery order from USDA Forest Service (awarded September 24, 2025) for Type 6 fire engine utility body provision and installation; a $4.8 million firm fixed-price contract from USDA Forest Service (September 28, 2023) for Type 3 fire engine bodies on government-furnished cab and chassis with operational training and delivery to Grand Rapids, Michigan; and a $4.7 million full-and-open delivery order from the Forest Service (July 1, 2025) for reacquisition of sixteen Type 3H fire engines, including replacement of a unit destroyed in a fire on the Willamette National Forest. Eight awards valued at $27.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing HME Ahrens-Fox to recompete activity across USDA and DOI wildfire management requirements. The vendor delivers across multiple federal locations nationwide and to overseas locations under the DLA contract, with place-of-performance driven by chassis pickup in San Dimas, California and delivery to agency-specified locations, often including operational training at receiving sites.