Lonestar Enterprises, Inc.

Lonestar Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Lonestar Enterprises, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and American Indian-owned enterprise based in Los Molinos, California, that provides equipment rentals and operational support services for wildland fire suppression, land management, and all-hazard incident response to the USDA Forest Service and related federal agencies as a prime contractor across multiple western Forest Service regions.

Lonestar Enterprises operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders issued against indefinite delivery contracts held through the USDA Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The company's service portfolio centers on heavy equipment rentals—including dozers, excavators, water trucks, and road graders—vehicle rentals with drivers, water handling resources (potable and gray water trucks, handwashing stations), weed washing units, chippers, and specialized operational support for fire suppression and emergency response. Primary NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) captures 191 of the vendor's awards; NAICS 485410 (All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation) encompasses 86 vehicle-with-driver awards. Work is performed across western U.S. Forest Service regions (Regions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8), with administrative oversight by the National Interagency Fire Center and regional Forest Service contracting offices.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Forest Service system. The top five funding entities account for 91% of award count and 94% of combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by dollar value with 56 awards and $11.9 million combined potential value, while the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) leads by volume with 122 awards carrying $4.9 million combined potential value. Lonestar also holds smaller work with Forest Service R6 (Pacific Northwest Region), Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, the General Services Administration, and Department of the Interior.

Lonestar's vehicle position reflects deep market penetration in VIPR I-BPA (Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement) vehicles. The vendor holds multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts across 17 named vehicles, each capped at $250,000 to $750,000 and set aside for total small business. Named vehicles include water handling contracts for Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9; heavy equipment contracts for Regions 3, 5, 6, and 8; vehicle-with-driver contracts for Regions 3, 5, and 6; weed washing units for Regions 3, 5, and 6; chippers for Regions 5 and 6; and miscellaneous heavy equipment for Regions 3, 5, and 8. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count are Indefinite Delivery Contract 12569R23T7755 (42 task orders, $2.5 million), IDC 129J6120T7152 (38 task orders, $746 thousand), IDC AG9J61B177253 (29 task orders, $1.3 million), IDC 12569R23T7343 (23 task orders, $391 thousand), and IDC 1202SB22T7966 (21 task orders, $451 thousand).

Activity has remained stable and high-volume. Awards averaged 37 per year in 2025 and 2026, compared to 50 in 2024, 33 in 2023, and 31 in 2022. The 279 total awards span from June 2017 to September 2026, with combined potential value of $21.5 million and $8.8 million obligated to date (41% execution rate). Recent delivery orders are predominantly small (under $100 thousand), reflecting the short-duration, incident-responsive nature of wildland fire suppression contracting. Representative recent work includes a $46,565 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 for wildland fire suppression equipment and operational support (August 31, 2026), a $119,625 delivery order from Region 3 for equipment rental services (June 28, 2026), and a $258,077.90 delivery order from Region 5 for heavy equipment and operational support (July 5, 2024). No recompete-cliff signal is present; the bulk of Lonestar's value sits in evergreen VIPR IDCs with annual review mechanisms and rolling task-order awards, not fixed-term completion dates.

Lonestar Enterprises does not subcontract; it performs all work as a direct prime contractor, delivering equipment and personnel directly to the Forest Service under task orders. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-asides on VIPR I-BPA vehicles and does not appear in full-and-open federal procurements outside the Forest Service ecosystem. Its market position is tightly coupled to the VIPR system's structure and to west-zone Forest Service regional operations. Federal contracting focus is narrow and specialized: wildland fire suppression and land management support across specified Forest Service dispatch centers in the western United States.