Lightning Ridge Technologies, L.C.

Lightning Ridge Technologies, L.C., a woman-owned small business based in Lindon, Utah, manufactures and delivers portable clerical support units—trailers, mobile offices, and all-terrain vehicles equipped with information management infrastructure—to the U.S. Forest Service and partner federal land management agencies for wildfire response and all-hazard incident management. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery and blanket purchase vehicles managed by the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Lightning Ridge Technologies' federal footprint is heavily concentrated within the Forest Service ecosystem. The National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 23 of 41 named awards (77% of recent activity) and $2.8 million of the combined potential value across all awards. Six additional awards span Forest Service regional offices—Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6, $666 thousand), Southwestern Region (Region 3, $159 thousand), and Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2, $115 thousand)—with the remaining activity scattered across ten distinct federal customer agencies. The dollar concentration aligns with the volume concentration; the top five customer entities account for 93% of combined potential value.

The company holds three active indefinite delivery vehicles through the National Interagency Fire Center, all under total small business set-aside: a $750 thousand multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, running through April 17, 2028; a $250 thousand BPA awarded April 17, 2025, running through April 17, 2028; and an expired $250 thousand BPA awarded August 11, 2022. Against these vehicles, Lightning Ridge has placed 16 task orders under Blanket Purchase Agreement AG024BB157010 ($932 thousand combined potential value), 4 delivery orders under IDC 12024B25T7050 ($140 thousand), and smaller volumes under two additional IDCs. Recent representative awards include a $421,426 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 in July 2024 for a clerical support unit to the Moss Mountain incident, a $56,915 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 in September 2025, and a $42,166 delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 in June 2026 under the February 2026 IDC.

Activity has remained episodic—two awards in 2021, six in 2022, three in 2024, three in 2025, and five in 2026 year to date—with combined potential value across all 53 prime awards totaling $4.3 million and combined dollars obligated at $2.8 million (65% of potential). The company does not subcontract and carries no federal subcontractor footprint. Work is performed nationwide across Forest Service regions and dispatch centers, with place of performance varying by incident location (Vancouver, Washington; Laramie, Wyoming; Chadron, Nebraska; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Phoenix, Arizona) and organizational performance under the National Interagency Fire Center at the national level for the regional delivery IDCs and BPAs.