LL Meadow Wildfire Inc.

LL Meadow Wildfire Inc., doing business as Cenote Partners, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Washington State that provides wildfire suppression personnel, equipment, and vehicle resources to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor on 144 awards across delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The vendor competes entirely on small-business set-asides, with 141 awards carrying total small business designations and the remainder awarded full-and-open or without set-aside marking.

Cenote Partners' capability footprint centers on specialized wildland firefighting resources — water tenders, fire engines, chippers, excavators, bulldozers, faller crews, and firefighting personnel — deployed for wildfire suppression, hazardous fuels reduction, and emergency incident response across the western United States. Representative work includes a $265,050 delivery order (July 22, 2026) from USDA Forest Service Region 6 for wildfire management resources in the Pendleton, Oregon area; a $250,000 indefinite-delivery contract (August 18, 2026) from the National Interagency Fire Center for vehicle-with-driver services covering Regions 5 and 6 West Zone through August 2031; and a $750,000 indefinite-delivery contract (February 6, 2026) from the National Interagency Fire Center for faller personnel and crews across West Zone Regions 5 and 6 through June 2028. The vendor also holds multiple $500,000 and $250,000 IDCs for water handling equipment, chippers, and potable/gray water truck services, all firm fixed-price and set aside for small business.

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in a single agency. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 99 percent of combined potential value — led by Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) with 106 awards valued at $5.7 million combined, and the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center with 22 awards valued at $5 million combined. The remaining three customers (Department of Agriculture Forest Service headquarters, Forest Service Region 1, and Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington) collectively represent less than one percent of potential value and one percent of award count. Performance is geographically concentrated in the Pacific Northwest and broader western United States, with primary places of performance in Wenatchee and Pendleton, Oregon; Sandy and Vancouver, Washington; and Tumwater, Washington.

Activity has grown steadily — two awards in 2022 escalating to seventeen in 2026 — with strong year-over-year momentum. The source data spans from June 2004 through September 2026, indicating more than two decades of vendor tenure, though recent activity dominates. Awards per year have grown from two (2022) to seventeen (2026), and the vendor has obligated $5.3 million against a combined potential value of $11.4 million across all awards (47% utilization rate).

Vehicle participation is deep across VIPR-issued indefinite-delivery contracts. The top five parent vehicles account for the majority of recent task orders: Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04H1B177369 (21 task orders, $685 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7074 (13 task orders, $437 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H120T7072 (12 task orders, $438 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H125T7327 (12 task orders, $1.3 million), and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG04H1B167485 (9 task orders, $315 thousand). All vehicles are Forest Service or National Interagency Fire Center instruments set aside for small business and carrying firm fixed-price structures.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor — zero sub-awards in the source data — and carries a narrow capability scope reflected in NAICS concentration: 140 of 144 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 113110), with the remaining four split between machinery rental and ground transportation. PSC coding mirrors this focus, with 141 awards under Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression codes and two under equipment lease PSCs.