Mario Quezada

Mario Quezada, operating as Q Equipment, is a service-disabled veteran-owned, minority-owned small business based in Chico, California that provides water handling equipment and certified personnel for wildland firefighting and emergency response as a prime contractor exclusively — all eight awards in the past four years are prime contracts or indefinite-delivery vehicles. Q Equipment is also self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and DOT-certified as a disadvantaged business enterprise; the vendor competes under Total Small Business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Q Equipment's entire customer and capability portfolio concentrates on the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and interagency fire suppression. All eight awards and both top parent vehicles are Forest Service work, accounting for one hundred percent of combined potential value. The vendor holds two active multiple-award indefinite-delivery contracts: a $500,000 ceiling contract awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling services in Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) running through June 4, 2030, and a $250,000 ceiling BPA awarded June 4, 2025, also through the Interagency Fire Center for Region 5 water handling. Both are Total Small Business set-asides. A third IDC with a $250,000 ceiling, awarded June 7, 2022, covered water handling across Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 and expired June 6, 2025. Recent delivery orders include a $64,525 firm fixed-price order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded August 5, 2026, for water handling equipment and certified personnel, and a $17,285 order from Region 5 dated July 23, 2024. Equipment scope includes Type 3 and Type 6 engines, Support Water Tenders Types 1, 2, and 3, trained and certified personnel, transportation, and lodging for fire suppression and all-hazard incidents, with rates structured for up to 16-hour daily shifts.

Activity is episodic — four awards in 2022, none in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two year-to-date in 2026 — reflecting the trigger-based nature of fire-suppression contracting. Combined potential value across all eight awards is $1.1 million, with only $122 thousand obligated to date (11% utilization). Q Equipment operates as a sole proprietor with no subcontract footprint and no secondary customer agencies beyond Forest Service regional offices and the Interagency Fire Center. The two top parent vehicles, both Interagency Fire Center IDCs, carry four task orders totaling $57 thousand and one task order totaling $65 thousand respectively.

With over a decade of wildland fire experience working as an employee with both the US forest service and Cal fire, as a firefighter. This experience gives Q-EQUIPMENT a good understanding of the wildland fire environment. On construction sites I have over 7 years' experience working as a heavy equipment operator in the US Army. With many hours performing dust abatement on military projects.