Keatts Ranch

Keatts Ranch, operating as Keatts Fire Suppression, provides wildland fire suppression personnel, potable and gray water trucks, trailer-mounted handwashing stations, and related mobile emergency-response equipment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under Total Small Business set-asides. The firm is a for-profit partnership headquartered in Lewiston, Idaho, registered in SAM.gov since 2004, and competes exclusively under small business set-asides on two primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center.

Keatts Fire Suppression's customer footprint is heavily concentrated within the Forest Service. The top five customer entities by count or value account for 73–98% of recent awards, with Forest Service Region 1 (Northern) anchoring 22 awards valued at $820 thousand combined potential value and Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain) placing 7 awards worth $311 thousand. By dollar magnitude, however, the National Interagency Fire Center's IDC awards dominate the portfolio — three IDC contracts carry $1 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas has also placed work, contributing 2 awards at $1 million combined potential value. All work is performance-based on firm fixed price delivery orders for incident-driven wildland fire suppression and all-hazard emergency response.

Keatts Fire Suppression holds two Total Small Business Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center. The newer contract, awarded February 6, 2026, carries a $500 thousand ceiling and runs through May 22, 2029; the earlier contract, awarded May 22, 2024, carries a $250 thousand ceiling with the same completion date. Both contracts cover Forest Service Regions 1, 2, and 4 (Northern, Rocky Mountain, and Intermountain), encompassing incident response in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and New Mexico, with administrative oversight at Lewiston, Idaho. Work falls under NAICS 238990 (mobile construction services) and PSC S206 (firefighting equipment rental). Ten task orders have been issued under IDC 1202SB24T7439 for $459 thousand combined potential value, and six orders under IDC 1202SB21T7358 for $148 thousand. Representative recent delivery orders include a $93,600 order from Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) for Duluth, Minnesota operations (July 2026, completion September 7, 2026), a $68 thousand order from Region 4 for Jackson, Wyoming (August 2025, completion September 24, 2025), and paired $12,600 and $14 thousand orders from the Forest Service for Craigmont, Idaho (both June 2026, completion July 1, 2026).

Activity has remained modest and flat — five awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, four in 2025, and five through mid-2026. The combined potential value across all fifty-one awards (prime only) is $3.3 million, with $1.1 million obligated. The vendor operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.