Lance LLC

Lance LLC, doing business as Lance D. Raff, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Kooskia, Idaho, provides heavy equipment, water handling services, and personnel for wildland firefighting operations to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor operating exclusively under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and delivery orders. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation structured as a limited liability partnership, operating 100% as a prime (38 total awards, zero sub-awards) with all work concentrated in forest fire suppression, emergency response, and prescribed burn support across federal land-management regions.

Lance LLC's customer base is vertically concentrated: 87% of recent awards flow to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split across the National Interagency Fire Center's Fire and Aviation Management program (10 awards, $2.1 million combined potential value), the Northern Region (Region 1, 19 awards, $1.3 million), and the Rocky Mountain Research Station (2 awards, $3 million). The Northern Region and the Fire Center dominate by award count; the Rocky Mountain Research Station anchors the potential-value ranking despite fewer awards, signaling occasional larger task orders. Place of performance spans Kamiah, Idaho and multiple USFS East Zone regions (1, 2, 4, 9) and the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6).

Lance LLC holds five indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center, all total small business set-asides: a $500,000 water handling IDC for East Zone regions awarded February 6, 2026 (completion May 30, 2030); a $500,000 heavy equipment IDC for East Zone regions awarded February 6, 2026 (completion June 1, 2028); a $250,000 water handling I-BPA for East Zone regions awarded May 30, 2025 (completion May 30, 2030); a $250,000 heavy equipment I-BPA for East Zone regions awarded June 1, 2023 (completion June 1, 2028); and a $250,000 water handling I-BPA for East Zone regions awarded June 1, 2022 (completion May 30, 2025). These vehicles are accessed through the Virtual Incident Procurement system and support rapid task-order issuance for fire suppression, all-hazard response, and prescribed burning work. Representative delivery orders include $63,041.83 (August 10, 2026, completion September 7, 2026) and $35,200 (September 8, 2025, completion September 23, 2025) for heavy equipment and support services under Region 1 parent vehicles.

Activity has accelerated sharply: one award per year in 2022–2024, five in 2025, and three into mid-2026 (combined potential value $6.6 million; $1.2 million obligated to date). Award-classification concentration sits at Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 115310, 34 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC, 32 awards). The company competes exclusively under total small business set-asides and does not bid full-and-open work.

Our business has many years of wildland fire suppression experience as well as dust abatement experience.