Hold The Line Catering, LLC

Hold The Line Catering, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Thornton, Colorado, provides mobile food service support to federal wildland fire operations and emergency incident response across the western United States as a 100% prime contractor under multiple Forest Service vehicles and one Army training contract. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on Forest Service parent IDIQs and under full-and-open procurement on Army purchase orders; woman-owned business designation appears across all recent awards.

Hold The Line Catering's customer concentration is nearly total with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. According to the portfolio data, Forest Service entities account for 84% of awards by count (16 of 19 recent awards) and 98% of combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center dominates the dollar ranking with three awards worth $16.3 million combined potential value, anchored by a $1.099 million delivery order issued May 14, 2026, under the Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025-2029 IDIQ for designated dispatch points supporting fire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and severity preparedness assignments through December 31, 2030. Regional Forest Service offices rank second through fifth by count: the Intermountain Region (Region 4) placed four awards totaling $1.3 million, the Southwestern Region (Region 3) placed three awards totaling $440 thousand, the Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) placed two awards totaling $453 thousand, and the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) placed two awards totaling $4.3 million. A single Army contract, awarded October 13, 2023, for $30 thousand to provide training meals to the 168th Infantry Brigade in Hastings, Nebraska, represents the only non-Forest Service work in the recent footprint.

Hold The Line Catering holds two parent vehicles with the Forest Service. The primary vehicle is the Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025-2029 IDIQ, a total small business set-aside multiple-award contract worth $15 million with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2029, awarded July 1, 2025. Six task orders totaling $7.2 million have been issued under this vehicle as of the source date, including a $3.83 million delivery order to the Pacific Northwest Region (September 7, 2025), an $872 thousand order to Forest Service operations in Moab, Utah (July 19, 2025), and an $830 thousand order for Grand Junction, Colorado (August 3, 2025). The second vehicle is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 1202SC23T2022) valued at $250 thousand, awarded September 1, 2023, by the National Interagency Fire Center with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2032. Nine task orders totaling $2.6 million have been issued under this older vehicle, with individual order values ranging from $55 thousand to $931 thousand across Wyoming, Oregon, New Mexico, and Washington locations. Both vehicles fund call-when-needed mobile food service unit (MFSU) operations—freshly prepared hot and cold meals, sack lunches, and supplemental food items delivered in remote and challenging environments.

Recent activity has grown significantly. The vendor placed two awards in 2023, nine in 2024, four in 2025, and four in the first half of 2026. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months ($398 thousand combined potential value), limiting near-term recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing reached $1.5 million in FY2024 across 3.7 FTEs on two prime service contracts, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from a 10th percentile of $172.03/hr to a median of $230.74/hr. The vendor performs work entirely through internal delivery teams with zero subcontractor hours reported across SCI-captured prime contracts; Hold The Line Catering operates as a vertically integrated mobile catering operator rather than a labor broker or equipment provider subcontracting to larger primes.