Koehler Ryan

Koehler Ryan, operating as Ryan Koehler & Son Water Tending, is a Native American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Oroville, California that provides water handling equipment, heavy machinery, and certified personnel for wildland fire suppression and incident response to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The company is structured as a sole proprietorship registered as an Indian Economic Enterprise and Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise.

Koehler Ryan's federal footprint centers almost entirely on the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service fire and incident response operations. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 15 of 20 awards and $4.4 million of the $4.7 million combined potential value across recent work; the remaining four awards split between Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (R5) and Rocky Mountain Region (R2), representing $223 thousand and $69 thousand respectively. The vendor competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides, holding ten indefinite-delivery contracts issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system with firm fixed-price bases and ceilings ranging from $250 thousand to $750 thousand. Most IDCs run through 2028–2030 and cover water handling equipment (potable and gray water trucks, handwashing station trailers, water tankers, Type 1–3 water tenders), heavy equipment (excavators, dozers, feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders), and certified water handling and heavy equipment personnel for on-call dispatch across Forest Service West Zone (Regions 5 and 6) and East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9). Place of performance spans California and surrounding western states, with resources staged from locations closest to incident sites to enable rapid emergency response.

Delivery orders against these IDVs range from $16.2 thousand to $85.5 thousand. Representative work includes a $68.8 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 awarded August 6, 2026 for water handling equipment and personnel in Durango, Colorado; a $77.8 thousand order from Region 5 in October 2024 for water trucks and certified personnel; a $22.5 thousand order from Region 5 in September 2022 for water delivery and maintenance support; and a $19.9 thousand delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center in September 2022 for a Type 3 excavator. Activity was uneven across the past five years—five awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and five in 2026 year-to-date. All work is primary forestry and fire suppression (NAICS 115310, PSC 10—Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). Koehler Ryan does not subcontract to other federal primes and holds no independent vehicle positions; all work flows through Interagency Fire Center or regional Forest Service indefinite-delivery contracts.