Kevin Knight

Kevin Knight, doing business as Knight Fire Rescue Consulting, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small disadvantaged business providing wildland fire management and emergency response services as a prime contractor to the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center. The company operates from Central Point, Oregon, as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes exclusively on total small business set-asides and full-and-open awards; 100% of reported awards are prime contracts, with no subcontract footprint.

Knight Fire Rescue Consulting derives nearly all customer concentration from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors 12 awards worth $11 million in combined potential value—chiefly four indefinite-delivery contracts for emergency medical responders, ambulance services, water handling equipment, and rapid extraction module support established in 2023 and 2026. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (R5) represents 39 awards totaling $1.8 million, and the Pacific Northwest Region (R6) accounts for 18 awards valued at $764 thousand. Together, Forest Service customers account for 79 of 84 total awards and 99% of combined potential value. Representative work includes $122,320 for wildland fire management and emergency response services at Sandy, Oregon (August 2026, total small business set-aside, U.S. Forest Service R6); a $189,600 purchase order for medical support unit services in Eureka, California (June 2025, no set-aside, Forest Service R5); and a $7.5 million indefinite-delivery contract for utility terrain vehicles and associated services supporting nationwide fire operations (awarded September 2022, total small business set-aside, National Interagency Fire Center).

Knight Fire Rescue Consulting holds a portfolio of 10 active indefinite-delivery vehicles under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, valued at $11.25 million in combined potential value across their ultimate completion dates. The largest vehicles are a $7.5 million IDC for utility terrain vehicles (completed September 2025), and five $500,000 IDCs for advanced life support and basic life support ambulance services (Region 13 nationwide, completed July 2028), water handling for Region 6 (completed May 2030), water handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (completed May 2030), and emergency medical responder services for Region 13 nationwide (completed June 2028). Five additional $250,000 vehicles support water handling and emergency medical responder capabilities across regions and national scope. All IDVs carry total small business set-asides and operate on firm fixed-price terms through the VIPR system, which enables rapid procurement of preseason incident blanket purchase agreements.

Activity has grown from nine awards in 2022 to a high of 19 in both 2023 and 2024, with 12 awards in 2025 and 16 in 2026 through August. Combined potential value across all 84 awards reaches $13.9 million, with $3.1 million (22%) obligated to date. The award portfolio spans 84 delivery orders and purchase orders averaging under $200,000 each, predominantly for incident management consulting, emergency medical personnel, fire suppression equipment, utility terrain vehicles, water handling resources, and specialized training. The narrowly concentrated customer base—five Forest Service entities representing 94% of awards—reflects Knight Fire Rescue Consulting's operational focus on wildland fire management across western regions (Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, Northern, Intermountain, and nationwide interagency operations). NAICS concentration runs toward Support Activities for Forestry (48 awards) and Ambulance Services (31 awards); PSC coding similarly concentrates on natural resources conservation and forest-range fire suppression (78 of 84 awards).

Full service all hazards company specializing, but not limited to structural and wildland firefighting, emergency medical response, natural disaster response, training entity for fire service and emergency medical service responders. Evaluators for emergency systems and response systems. Wildland mitigation specialist to include wildland urban interface property assessments, mitigation and recommendations. Suppression, instruction, education and prevention to private, state and federal entities. Fuel mitigation, reduction and prescribed fire operations. Aircraft operations for rotor wing include night time operations and rescue. Hazardous fuel reduction, fire and natural disaster clean up, and hazardous tree mitigation.

Paramedics and emergency medical technicians for medical response of all hazards incidents. Hazard tree faller modules are a vital piece to our organization. Several members still actively serve on federal all hazard incident management teams.