Montrose Hell Fighters

Montrose Hell Fighters, a woman-owned small disadvantaged sole proprietorship based in Montrose, Colorado, delivers wildland firefighting services, equipment, and operational support to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under full-and-open and small-business set-aside delivery orders issued against multiple indefinite delivery vehicles. The company specializes in supplying Type 3, 5, and 6 firefighting engines, water tenders, aerial firefighting resources, and trained personnel for fire suppression, emergency response, and prescribed burn operations across U.S. Forest Service regions nationwide.

Montrose Hell Fighters operates almost entirely within the Forest Service ecosystem. The top five customer entities account for 81 percent of recent awards by count and 84 percent by potential value, dominated by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (51 awards, $2 million combined potential value), the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (14 awards, $1.4 million), and regional offices in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, and Southwestern regions. The company holds no subcontractor footprint and operates solely as a prime contractor on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. Recent representative work includes a $49,500 delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 in June 2026 for wildland firefighting services in Chadron, Nebraska (set-aside: Total Small Business), an $85,500 delivery order from Region 6 in September 2025 for operations in Springfield, Oregon (no set-aside), and a $133,166.20 delivery order from Region 2 in October 2024 for wildfire management in Sheridan, Wyoming (no set-aside).

Montrose Hell Fighters holds three active indefinite delivery contracts, all valued at $250,000 each and designated for total small business set-asides through the National Interagency Fire Center or U.S. Forest Service. The largest vehicle by task-order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T7430, which carries 29 task orders worth $1.4 million in combined potential value and covers water handling services for Forest Service regions. Blanket Purchase Agreement AG82X9B167011 supports 26 task orders worth $891 thousand, while Indefinite Delivery Contract 1282X919T7033 anchors 25 task orders worth $1.3 million. A fourth vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB25T7827 (awarded February 6, 2026), covers water handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 through May 30, 2030 and has already generated 12 task orders worth $492 thousand. All vehicles use firm fixed-price delivery orders.

Activity has fluctuated over the past five years — 15 awards in 2022, declining to 6 in 2023, recovering to 14 in 2024, then dropping to 8 in 2025 and 6 in 2026. The recompete exposure window is modest: awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months total approximately $700 thousand across delivery orders under existing IDIQ vehicles. The company's federal footprint spans 110 prime awards since 2010 with combined potential value of $5.6 million and $4.5 million in combined obligated dollars (80 percent invoiced), concentrated in NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) across 93 awards and PSC group for Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Montrose Hell Fighters has worked with 13 distinct federal agencies in total, though the Forest Service represents virtually the entire transactional footprint.