Montrose Hell Fighters

Montrose Hell Fighters, a woman-owned small disadvantaged sole proprietorship based in Montrose, Colorado, supplies Type 3, 5, and 6 wildland firefighting engines, water tenders, aerial firefighting resources, and trained personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitive delivery orders. The company operates under NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry) with PSC concentration in Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression and Fire Fighting Equipment.

Montrose Hell Fighters competes across both set-aside and full-and-open vehicles. Recent awards split roughly evenly between Total Small Business set-asides (particularly in 2026, where 16 of 20 awards carried the set-aside) and unrestricted delivery orders placed against IDIQ vehicles. Representative 2026 prime work includes a $117,000 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) for wildland firefighting services in Sandy, Oregon; a $126,500 delivery order from Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) for fire suppression resources in Pueblo, Colorado; and a $112,500 delivery order for operations in Fossil, Oregon. Earlier representative work spans a $115,500 delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) in August 2023 for firefighting assets in Northern California, and a $110,200 delivery order from Region 3 (Southwestern) in April 2022.

Customer concentration anchors heavily to the U.S. Forest Service ecosystem. The top five customer entities (by count and dollars) account for 77% of all awards and 82% of combined potential value. Forest Service Region 2 (Rocky Mountain) leads decisively with 58 awards totaling $2.6 million, followed by the National Interagency Fire Center (15 awards, $1.9 million), Forest Service Region 6 (12 awards, $797 thousand), the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (10 awards, $583 thousand), and Forest Service Region 5 (8 awards, $427 thousand). Work is performed nationwide at multiple Forest Service regional locations, with the heaviest concentration in Colorado, Oregon, and across the Rocky Mountain West and Pacific Northwest regions.

Montrose Hell Fighters holds four active IDIQ vehicles through the National Interagency Fire Center and Forest Service, all designated for total small business set-asides and all carrying $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings. The largest by ceiling is a $500,000 multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded February 6, 2026, for water handling services across Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 through May 30, 2030 (generating 12 task orders totaling $492 thousand to date). Three additional IDIQ vehicles run through June 2028 to May 2030, each at $250,000, covering heavy equipment for East Zone regions and water handling support. Against these vehicles and regional Forest Service BPAs, the company places the majority of its delivery orders. The top five parent vehicles account for 106 task orders (80% of all prime awards) and $6.4 million in combined potential value: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T7430 (29 task orders, $1.4 million), Blanket Purchase Agreement AG82X9B167011 (26 task orders, $891 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1282X919T7033 (25 task orders, $1.3 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB25T7827 (22 task orders, $1.4 million), and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG84M8B137127 (4 task orders, $258 thousand).

Activity has grown modestly and unevenly over the past five years—15 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 17 in 2025, and 20 in 2026—with the vendor maintaining a footprint of 133 prime awards since 2010 valued at $7.7 million combined potential (79% obligated to date). The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor footprint and no involvement in federal grant programs. All work is firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders issued against Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center IDIQ vehicles, with places of performance distributed across Forest Service regions nationwide where fire suppression and prescribed burn operations occur.