Daniel J Martin

Daniel J Martin, doing business as Aries Fire Service, provides wildland fire suppression services—including Type 3 and Type 6 fire engines, firefighting personnel, and water handling equipment—to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor operating under total small business set-asides. Martin is a sole proprietorship headquartered in Hamilton, Montana, competing exclusively under small business designations across all 59 prime awards in the source portfolio, with a combined potential value of $3.2 million and $1.8 million in obligated dollars.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R1-Northern Region accounts for 39 awards (66% of all awards) and $1.7 million in combined potential value—92% of the top-five customer coverage. The Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center adds 7 awards and $1.1 million, with three regional Forest Service offices (R4-Intermountain, R9-Eastern, and a general USDA Forest Service line) combining for 8 more awards totaling $422 thousand. The vendor has no sub awards; all 59 awards are primes.

Martin holds three indefinite delivery contracts, each set aside for small businesses. The largest, awarded February 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center, carries a $500,000 ceiling running through May 30, 2030 and covers East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 for water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel. A second IDC awarded May 30, 2025 covers the same regions with a $250,000 ceiling through May 30, 2030. A third IDC, awarded June 2, 2022 with a $250,000 ceiling, ran through May 30, 2025 and covered Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9. These IDCs flow through the Virtual Incident Procurement system as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements with optional interagency use available to the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Activity has been steady but modest—five awards annually in 2024 and 2025, rising to seven in 2026 through August. Work is performed across multiple western U.S. locations: Dillon, Duluth, Jackson, Kamiah, and Hamilton, with Hamilton as the administrative base. Representative delivery orders include a $39,609 award to the Forest Service R1-Northern Region on August 28, 2026, a $97,650 award to R9-Eastern Region on July 20, 2026, and a $68,825 award to R1-Northern on August 10, 2026. Martin's registration in the System for Award Management dates to 2004, establishing two decades of continuous federal engagement in wildland fire resource delivery.