Hot Spot Logistics

Hot Spot Logistics, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, supplies specialized fire suppression and incident response equipment — chippers, trailer-mounted potable and gray water trucks, handwashing stations, and off-highway vehicles — to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of the Interior on firm fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts, all as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides.

The vendor's award portfolio spans 16 prime awards with combined potential value of $2 million, concentrated in two customer agencies and their subcomponents. The National Interagency Fire Center (a shared resource of the Forest Service) anchors the dollar value: five awards totaling $1.8 million in potential value, all indefinite-delivery contracts for chippers ($250,000 ceiling through May 30, 2029), potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations ($500,000 ceiling through May 22, 2029), and off-highway vehicles ($250,000 ceiling through August 14, 2031). These IDIQs were awarded under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, a multiple-award mechanism for preseason incident blanket purchase agreements across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, and 4 supporting all-hazard and fire suppression response. The Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) has placed six delivery orders against these vehicles and other blanket purchase agreements, totaling $163 thousand in combined potential value for logistics services and equipment. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region accounts for four awards, $92 thousand in combined potential value, for trailer-mounted handwashing stations on firm fixed-price purchase orders.

Activity has remained stable over the past three years — five awards in 2024, five in 2025, and six in 2026 — with only $262 thousand obligated against $2 million in potential value, indicating most contract ceilings remain available for task order drawdown. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides across its federal footprint. NAICS classification skews toward Support Activities for Forestry (15 of 16 awards) and PSC codes align with forest fire suppression and firefighting equipment rental, reflecting a narrowly defined capability and customer base concentrated in wildland fire and emergency incident logistics within a four-state region (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming).