Holt, Gregory R

Holt, Gregory R, doing business as Dust Busters, operates as a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship delivering wildland fire suppression and emergency incident support services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides on its foundational Indefinite Delivery Contracts, though recent delivery orders increasingly compete without set-aside restrictions.

Dust Busters provides specialized equipment, trained personnel, and logistical support for federal emergency response across ten Western states, with concrete capabilities centered on water tender trucks (Types 1, 2, and 3), mobile laundry units, vehicle transportation with drivers, potable and gray water trucks with hand-washing stations, and personnel services to support wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and land management activities. Representative work includes a $178,245 delivery order from the Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) issued July 16, 2025 for critical incident support services in Venice, Utah; a $141,388.10 delivery order from Region 4 on June 28, 2026 for water handling and transportation capabilities in Price, Utah; and a $123,999.38 purchase order from Region 3 (Southwestern Region) on April 22, 2022 for a Type 2 water tender in support of fire suppression operations in New Mexico.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the portfolio by potential value ($6.2 million across 38 awards), followed by Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) with 90 awards totaling $3.5 million in combined potential value, and Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) with 17 awards valued at $1.1 million. Top customers by award count collectively account for 86% of recent awards, demonstrating extreme customer concentration within a single agency and single major program office.

Dust Busters holds multiple active Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The portfolio includes 13 named IDCs, each valued between $250,000 and $500,000, covering water handling services for specific regions (Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10), vehicle with driver services (Regions 5 and 6 West Zone), mobile laundry units (Region 13 National), and potable/gray water trucks with hand-washing stations (Region 5 Pacific Southwest). The five top parent vehicles generated 127 delivery orders with $4.08 million in combined potential value. The largest VIPR vehicle, IDC 1202SB22T7889, placed 49 task orders worth $1.4 million; Blanket Purchase Agreement AG9J61B167262 generated 26 task orders for $684 thousand. IDC periods of performance extend through 2031, anchoring a stable multi-year base within the Forest Service's incident support ecosystem.

Activity has grown unevenly—31 awards in 2022, declining to 11 in 2023, then doubling to 50 in 2024 and holding at 50 in 2025, with 24 awards recorded through mid-September 2026. The vendor's award portfolio includes 238 prime contracts and IDCs with combined potential value of $24.3 million, of which $17.7 million (73%) has been obligated as real invoiced spend. The source does not identify sub-award or sub-contractor activity; Dust Busters operates exclusively as a prime. NAICS concentration is extreme: 207 of 238 awards (87%) fall under Support Activities for Forestry, with 232 of 238 awards (97%) coded to the PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Dust Busters has no presence outside wildland fire and emergency incident support services.

Dust Busters competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its foundational VIPR IDCs, which remain designated as small business set-asides. However, the recent delivery order portfolio shows a pronounced shift toward non-set-aside awards: many of the most recent 2025 and 2026 delivery orders carry "No Set-Aside Used" designations, indicating the vendor is increasingly winning competitive task orders against its own small-business-set-aside IDCs without invoking the set-aside protection. This pattern signals either broadening competitive acceptance within the Forest Service's incident support ecosystem or potential transition from set-aside-dependent revenue to full-and-open competitiveness on firm fixed-price delivery orders—a trajectory that reduces set-aside dependency while maintaining volume.