Michael D Martinez

Michael D Martinez, doing business as Wildfire Support Team, operates as a self-certified woman-owned small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, providing specialized wildfire incident response and fire management logistics to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor across all 178 recent awards. Wildfire Support Team delivers fire engines, water handling equipment, heavy machinery, vehicles with trained drivers, and incident-support personnel for tactical wildfire suppression, prevention, and recovery operations across western U.S. regions. The vendor competes exclusively under set-aside contracts—notably total small business set-asides for its indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, and predominantly no set-aside designations for task order issuance against those IDCs.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the federal Forest Service ecosystem. The top five customer entities (all Forest Service line offices) account for 89% of recent awards by count and 94% by potential value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region dominates the footprint at 102 awards and $4.5 million combined potential value, anchored by the vendor's decades-long presence in New Mexico and Arizona. The National Interagency Fire Center ranks second with 22 awards (primarily the parent IDC vehicles themselves) and $3.8 million, followed by the R5-Pacific Southwest Region with 21 awards and $1.8 million. The R6-Pacific Northwest and general Forest Service account for 13 awards at $883 thousand combined. Delivery order activity skews toward Region 3 task orders issued against multiple parent indefinite delivery contracts.

Wildfire Support Team holds eight indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, all valued between $250 thousand and $500 thousand, awarded or renewed between February and May 2026 with performance periods extending through 2028–2030. These vehicles cover water handling, miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulcher/masticators, road graders, skidders), heavy equipment generally, and vehicle-with-driver services for Regions 3 and 8. Task orders are issued on an as-needed basis through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The vendor's top five parent vehicles—primarily BPAs and IDCs issued by the National Interagency Fire Center—generate 141 task orders and $6.6 million in combined potential value. Recent delivery orders range from sub-$5,000 to $607 thousand, with the largest single award a $607.8 thousand firm fixed-price order from Forest Service Region 5 in July 2024 for fire engines, water trucks, heavy equipment, and trained crews supporting wildfire suppression operations in California.

Activity averaged roughly 8 awards per year over the past five years (2022: 18 awards, 2023: 14, 2024: 3, 2025: 8, 2026: 16), with a notable dip in 2024 followed by rebound in 2025–2026. All awards are prime contracts; the vendor has no subcontractor footprint. NAICS coding is heavily concentrated in 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 173 of 178 awards falling into that category; PSC coding mirrors this concentration at Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The vendor's portfolio demonstrates deep operational entrenchment in the pre-positioned, as-needed wildfire support model that the Forest Service maintains across the western United States, with place-of-performance spanning New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington. Registration in SAM dates to at least 2005, signaling sustained tenure in federal wildfire contracting.