Houstons Trail's End, Inc.

Houstons Trail's End, Inc., operating as Houston's Catering, Inc., is a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Kanab, Utah, that delivers mobile food service and catering support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service for wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and emergency operations across the western United States. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards), competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on Forest Service indefinite delivery contracts and delivery orders; it performs all contract work in-house with no subcontractor engagement.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Forest Service. The top five customer entities account for 62% of award count and 98% of combined potential value, dominated by the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (18 awards, $59 million combined potential value), the Forest Service broadly across regional and national offices (13 awards, $20.1 million), and the Forest Service R4-Intermountain Region and R6-Pacific Northwest Region (5 awards each, $4.9 million and $4.4 million respectively). The vendor also holds 11 awards from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. This represents near-total customer concentration in a single agency and program.

Houstons Trail's End holds two parent indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its delivery-order pipeline. The Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029, a $15 million Total Small Business multiple-award IDIQ awarded July 1, 2025, represents the current vehicle; nine task orders totaling $8.4 million in combined potential value have been issued under it as of August 2026, with completion dates running through December 2025 and December 2029. The vendor also operates under Indefinite Delivery Contract 12024B20T2510, which carries 28 task orders totaling $12.8 million in combined potential value. Representative recent delivery orders include a $3.1 million fixed-price order with economic price adjustment from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) for wildland fire suppression catering at Monroe, Utah (ultimate completion July 21, 2026); a $885,084 delivery order from the Forest Service for fire suppression support at Warm Springs, Oregon (ultimate completion August 9, 2026); a $682,965 delivery order for mobile food service at Carson City, Nevada (ultimate completion August 19, 2026); and a $1.66 million order from the Forest Service at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona (ultimate completion December 31, 2025). All awards are firm-fixed-price with economic price adjustment and carry Total Small Business set-aside status where applicable.

Award activity has been volatile year over year—three awards in 2022, rising to twelve in 2023, declining to seven in 2024, rebounding to eight in 2025, and five in the first eight months of 2026—but the vendor's combined potential value across all 101 awards sits at $91.7 million, with $64.7 million obligated to date (71% of potential). The vendor's primary capability footprint centers on mobile food service operations: the portfolio carries 58 awards under NAICS 722100 (Food Service Contractors) and 9 under mobile food services; PSC coding reflects 60 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression and 18 under Housekeeping–Food. SCI-reported invoiced revenue from federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $12 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $4.3 million; FY2023: $4.3 million; FY2024: $3.5 million), with 6.6 to 7.9 full-time equivalents per fiscal year delivering those services. On federal prime contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ranged from $232/hr at the 10th percentile through $314/hr at the 90th percentile, with a median around $278/hr. The vendor maintains zero sub-hours engagement across its prime SCI-reportable contracts, reflecting an all-in-house delivery model.

Capable of feeding large groups in remote locations for extended periods of time.