Hughes Fire Equipment Inc.

Hughes Fire Equipment Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Springfield, Oregon, supplies fire truck repairs, refurbishment, diagnostics, and maintenance services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders with no set-aside designations. The company operates across multiple federal customers with specialized expertise in emergency vehicle technical repairs, DOT inspections, fire engine diagnostics, and authorized dealer services for Pierce and other fire truck manufacturers across western United States locations.

Hughes Fire Equipment competes in the full-and-open marketplace without relying on set-aside categories. The vendor's recent award portfolio spans fifty-two prime contracts totaling $799 thousand in combined potential value, with $768 thousand obligated (96% execution rate). Activity has grown modestly — two awards in 2022 to eight in 2025 — and the recompete cliff is minimal, with only one award (combined potential value $13 thousand) completing within the next twenty-four months.

Customer concentration remains distributed across twenty-one distinct federal agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 46% of awards, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (9 awards, $39 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (5 awards, $185 thousand), and the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region (4 awards, $62 thousand). By potential value, NAVFAC dominates at $185 thousand across five awards — nearly one-quarter of Hughes's total portfolio — followed by the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command ($90 thousand across two awards) and the Department of the Army ($74 thousand on a single inspection, testing, and certification fire truck repair engagement. This divergence indicates NAVFAC places multiple smaller orders while the Air Force and Army account for fewer, larger contracts.

Hughes Fire Equipment's concrete work spans repair of structural pumper fire trucks (a $118 thousand NAVFAC refurbishment of a 2005 Pierce 210 pumper in Tacoma, Washington), aircraft rescue and firefighting truck repairs (an $11 thousand Coast Guard ARFF repair for an aqueous film-forming foam leak), DOT inspections and engine repairs at National Wildlife Refuges (multiple $2 thousand to $7 thousand Fish and Wildlife Service contracts), and fire damage restoration (a $13.7 thousand Interior Nevada Region repair at the Nobee facility in Meridian, Idaho). Recent awards include a $13.1 thousand Department of the Interior Oregon-Washington Region repair of Fire Engine I621075 E330 (February 2026, ultimate completion October 2026) and an $11 thousand Intermountain Region servicing and testing contract at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona (March 2026, completion May 2026). The vendor also holds three GSA Federal Acquisition Service small-business set-aside purchase orders for automotive mechanical repairs on a 2023 Ford F350 ambulance in Boise, Idaho, totaling approximately $58 thousand combined potential value, despite the vendor competing predominantly outside set-asides elsewhere.

Work is performed at multiple western locations including Tacoma and Lakewood, Washington; Boise, Idaho; Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona; and Springfield, Oregon. The portfolio concentrates on fire engine and emergency vehicle repair under PSC codes for equipment maintenance and repair of fire-fighting and rescue equipment, with secondary exposure to motor vehicle parts manufacturing and fabricated metal work. Hughes Fire Equipment operates as a specialized sole vendor in its regional market and maintains no identified subcontractor footprint; the company performs all work as prime contractor with no noted sub-award activity across the source data.