Manuiwa Airways, Incorporated

Manuiwa Airways, Incorporated, doing business as Volcano Helicopters, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American small business headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, delivers on-call helicopter flight services to the Department of the Interior and subordinate Interior bureaus as a prime contractor under a total small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) and delivers mission-critical aerial support across the Hawaiian Islands without subcontractors.

Volcano Helicopters operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) under NAICS 481211 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation), providing helicopter services spanning volcanic monitoring, emergency response, aerial surveys, personnel transport, cargo delivery, vegetation management, wildlife operations, and infrastructure inspection. The vendor competes entirely under the total small business set-aside designation on its parent IDC but receives individual task orders designated both with and without set-aside protection. Representative work includes a $22,000 delivery order from the National Park Service Pacific West Region on May 13, 2026, for vegetation fuels reduction operations at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; an $80,000 delivery order from the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaii Volcano Observatory on August 20, 2025, for on-call volcano monitoring services; a $108,250 delivery order from the Pacific West Region on November 19, 2024, for 40-mile fence project support at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; and a $63,370 delivery order from the Hawaii Volcano Observatory on August 23, 2024, for volcano monitoring services. Performance occurs in Hilo, Hawaii, with subordinate operations throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Interior bureaus within the Pacific region. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 72% of recent awards, dominated by the National Park Service Pacific West Region (84 awards, $816 thousand combined potential value) and the National Park Service Alaska Region (61 awards, $987 thousand combined potential value). However, the top-value ranking diverges markedly: the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget anchors the portfolio with 2 awards carrying $38.2 million combined potential value—these are the recompete vehicles themselves. The Interior Business Center (the contracting office) follows with 15 awards valued at $18.4 million combined potential value, reflecting the parent IDC and associated task-order activity.

Volcano Helicopters holds a $9 million Indefinite Delivery Contract (140D8122D0007) awarded by the Interior Business Center on March 1, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2027. This vehicle, a multiple-award total small business set-aside, carries 74 task orders valued at $1.2 million combined potential value. The vendor also operates under the prior DOI Alaska On Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017-2021 IDIQ (65 task orders, $995 thousand combined potential value) and historical Helicopter Rental Services in Hawaii 2013-2017 vehicle (46 task orders, $911 thousand combined potential value).

Activity has declined from 29 awards in 2022 to 8 awards in 2026 (only two months of data). Ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $274 thousand combined potential value and will face recompete. Across 253 total prime awards dating to 2001, Volcano Helicopters has served 19 distinct federal customer agencies; the combined potential value across all awards is $62.3 million, with only $4.8 million (8% of potential value) obligated to date, reflecting the typical cost-plus-award posture of Interior on-call vehicle awards before task orders are fully funded. Place of performance is Hilo, Hawaii, 96720, and subordinate locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands.