Mike's Water Truck Service LLC

Mike's Water Truck Service LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietorship based in Grants Pass, Oregon, provides potable water trucks, gray water trucks, trailer-mounted hand washing stations, and trained operators to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) exclusively under small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates directly with no subcontractors and competes across Total Small Business set-asides and unrestricted delivery orders on USDA Forest Service IDIQs and the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

The vendor's footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the USDA Forest Service. Ninety-eight percent of recent awards fund Forest Service programs, split between the National Interagency Fire Center (19 awards, $3.4 million combined potential value) and the Pacific Northwest Region (58 awards, $2.7 million combined potential value), with supplemental activity in the Pacific Southwest Region (6 awards, $367 thousand) and one order each from the Southwestern Region and the Department of the Interior's Idaho Region. The two rankings align closely — NIFC dominates both volume and dollars despite fewer individual awards, reflecting the larger ceiling values on its multiple-award IDIQ contracts. Representative work includes a $68,344 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 6 for water truck services in Lakeview, Oregon under Total Small Business set-aside (August 2026), a $111,800 delivery order for potable and gray water trucks with operators in Medford, Oregon under Region 6's VIPR I-BPA (August 2024), a $141,408 delivery order for water handling services and trained personnel under Region 6's VIPR system (August 2025), and a $52,823 Type 2 support water tender purchase order from the Department of the Interior's Idaho Region (June 2025).

Mike's Water Truck Service holds seven active prime IDIQs. Five are awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center under the VIPR system: a $500,000 multiple-award IDC for water handling equipment in Region 6 through May 2030, a $750,000 multiple-award IDC for potable and gray water trucks with trailer-mounted hand washing stations in Region 6 through May 2029, a $500,000 multiple-award IDC for miscellaneous heavy equipment in Region 6 through May 2029, a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for water handling in Region 6 through May 2029, and a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for potable and gray water trucks in Region 6 through May 2029. Two older IDIQs carry $250,000 each through June 2025 and May 2029, both held with Forest Service Region 6. Delivery orders against these vehicles range from $2,700 to $141,408 and are issued firm fixed price, with five task orders on the largest vehicle and twelve on the two highest-volume IDIQs.

Activity shows modest growth from six awards in 2022 to twelve in 2024, declining to seven in 2025 and recovering to ten in 2026. The vendor has entered a material recompete window — one IDIQ expires in June 2025, and several others expire in May 2029 and May 2030, affecting the pipeline for task-order renewal. Combined potential value across the 89 awards totals $6.6 million, with $2.8 million obligated to date (43% draw-down). This vendor operates in a narrow, seasonally driven market (wildland fire suppression and forest management) with no diversification into other federal customers or service lines beyond water truck operations. Award concentration in NIFC and Region 6, combined with the reliance on VIPR competitive renewals and the June 2025 expiration of one mature IDIQ, creates visibility of recompete risk in the near term.