Kinter Terry

Kinter Terry, a veteran-owned small business based in Silver City, New Mexico, provides vehicle and driver services for wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor on a 100% full-and-open (non-set-aside) competitive basis, with recent secondary participation in total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts.

Kinter Terry operates as a for-profit sole proprietorship registered in SAM.gov since January 2018. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open competitions, though it holds positions on two total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts valued at $250,000 each. The company's customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split between Region 3 (Southwestern Region) field operations and the National Interagency Fire Center. Region 3 accounts for 14 awards with $229 thousand combined potential value, while the Interagency Fire Center accounts for 3 awards with $518 thousand combined potential value. All 19 awards in the source footprint support fire suppression, land management, and all-hazard incident response; the top NAICS categories are Support Activities for Forestry (10 awards) and All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (9 awards), with PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression covering the full 19-award portfolio.

Kinter Terry holds two Indefinite Delivery Contracts as a prime: one awarded April 27, 2023, valued at $250,000 with ultimate completion April 27, 2028, and a second awarded February 6, 2026, also valued at $250,000 with completion April 27, 2028. The April 2023 IDC has generated four documented delivery orders ranging from $8,107 to $35,000 for Region 3 operations, with orders issued August 2023 through June 2025. The February 2026 IDC, described as the VIPR I-BPA (Vehicle with Driver Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement), accommodates pickup trucks and stake-side vehicles with professional drivers and has produced delivery orders in May and June 2026 valued at $30,425 and $13,570 respectively. Firm fixed-price delivery orders under both IDCs establish daily shift rates of up to 16 hours covering all contractor costs for vehicle provision, personnel, equipment, training, transportation, and lodging.

Activity has been episodic — three awards in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and three in 2026 — with combined potential value of $775 thousand across all nineteen awards and combined obligated dollars of $275 thousand (35% of potential value). Kinter Terry does not subcontract and operates exclusively as a prime.