Lindsey Mobile Retardant LLC

Lindsey Mobile Retardant LLC, doing business as Lindsey Mobile Retardent LLC, is a woman-owned small business and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Santa Maria, California, that provides mobile wildland fire retardant mixing and aerial firefighting support services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open awards. The company operates portable retardant plants and supplies potable water trucks, gray water trucks, and handwashing station trailers to support wildland fire suppression and incident response operations across multiple Forest Service regions.

Lindsey Mobile Retardant operates exclusively within wildland fire management and carries 100% of its 23 prime awards under NAICS 541711 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation — Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center funds 16 awards (combined potential value $17.5 million), representing the vendor's anchor relationship. The Forest Service's Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) and Region 3 (Southwestern Region) account for the remaining seven awards. The vendor has worked exclusively with the Forest Service across three regions and the National Interagency Fire Center since at least 2019. Recent representative work includes a $28.6 thousand delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (September 2026) for mobile retardant services in Solvang, California under a Total Small Business set-aside, a $13.65 thousand Region 5 delivery order (September 2025) for mobile retardant services in Clovis, California, and a $25.5 thousand Region 5 delivery order (July 2024) for retardant mixing and aerial delivery support.

Lindsey Mobile Retardant holds two active indefinite-delivery contracts: a $500 thousand IDC awarded February 6, 2026, under Total Small Business set-aside through May 28, 2029, for potable and gray water trucks and handwashing station trailers in Region 5 only, and a $250 thousand IDC awarded May 28, 2024, through May 2029, also for water trucks and handwashing stations in Region 5. Both contracts are firm fixed price and multiple-award vehicles. The vendor places the majority of delivery orders against an IDC (1202SC21T2601) carrying 11 task orders valued at $843 thousand combined potential value. Activity shows volatility: ten awards in 2021, one in 2022, three each in 2024 and 2025, and two in 2026, with combined potential value of $17.7 million but only $1.6 million obligated (9% execution rate). The vendor operates solely as a prime and carries no subcontract footprint.