Mountain Blade Runner LLC

Mountain Blade Runner LLC, a Colorado-based for-profit limited liability company, operates as a federal prime contractor providing Type I, Type III, and Type IV helicopter aviation services for wildland firefighting, search and rescue, wildlife monitoring, and natural resource management across the Western United States. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open, with no set-aside posture at the prime portfolio level, though several of its task orders and indefinite delivery vehicles carry Total Small Business designations.

Mountain Blade Runner delivers helicopter support on a self-performed basis—the vendor operates as a prime contractor exclusively with zero subcontractor engagement across all 194 federal awards. The company maintains multiple operational helicopter fleets based in Montrose, Colorado, and provides comprehensive aviation services including aircraft, pilots, ground crews, equipment, and supplies. Concrete representative work includes a $1,138,725 fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment delivery order from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (awarded March 9, 2026) for Type III helicopter flight services in Wickenburg, Arizona under a Total Small Business set-aside; a $527,893.81 firm fixed-price delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded September 1, 2025) for helicopter support services under the Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 IDIQ; and a $851,848 fixed-price delivery order from the Idaho Region (awarded May 15, 2026) for exclusive-use Type III helicopter flight services in Rifle, Colorado under a Total Small Business set-aside.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to federal land management agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 89% of recent awards. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by award count (89 awards, $122.4 million combined potential value). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region follows (50 awards, $57.3 million combined potential value). The Department of the Interior Interior Business Center (primarily through the On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 IDIQ) anchors $55.5 million in potential value across two awards. The Department of the Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget contributes $53.1 million across four awards. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region accounts for 21 awards worth $697 thousand combined potential value. The dollar and volume rankings reveal concentration: NIFC dominates by both count and value, while Interior Business Center and Office of Policy Management and Budget carry disproportionately large ceilings on fewer awards.

Mountain Blade Runner holds positions on multiple parent vehicles structured as indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements. The National Interagency Fire Center's Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 IDIQ (issued January 1, 2025, $50 million ceiling through December 31, 2034) has generated 32 task orders worth $11.3 million combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center's Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023-2032 IDIQ (awarded April 12, 2023, $40 million ceiling) carries multiple task orders. The Interior Business Center's On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 IDIQ ($49.5 million ceiling, May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2027) supports rapid procurement of Type III helicopter services across Interior Department agencies. The Interior Business Center also manages a $55.5 million multiple-award on-call vehicle. Single-award Type III helicopter IDIQs with the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region include a $6 million contract for Wickenburg, Arizona services (awarded March 20, 2024, through March 31, 2029) and a $4.354 million contract for St. George, Utah services (awarded March 13, 2023, through April 30, 2028). Mountain Blade Runner also holds position on a $49.5 million multiple-award On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services contract issued May 1, 2022, and a $2 million single-award Fish and Wildlife Service exclusive-use Type III helicopter contract for Winnie, Texas operations (awarded January 2, 2023, through July 1, 2028).

Activity has tracked steady year-over-year growth: 20 awards in 2022, 32 in 2023, 31 in 2024, 29 in 2025, and 32 in 2026 through September. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $290.7 million, with $59.4 million obligated (20% of combined potential). The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: 11 awards with ultimate completion dates in that window carry $4.6 million combined potential value.

SCI-reported invoicing across service contracts above the $150,000 threshold reached $26.9 million cumulatively across FY2022–FY2025. SCI invoicing grew from $3.4 million in FY2022 to $11.1 million in FY2025. Contractor FTE footprint on SCI records shows volatility: FY2022 reported 342 FTEs (likely reflecting a large crew deployment across multiple active fire contracts), declining to 9.3 FTEs in FY2023, then rising to 17.1 FTEs by FY2025. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates median around $286.47/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching the 90th percentile at $309.16/hr. Mountain Blade Runner performs 100 percent of work internally on all SCI-captured contracts; no subcontractor hours are recorded.

Mountain Blade Runner operates fifteen distinct federal customer relationships. The vendor's portfolio is concentrated in wildland fire suppression and emergency response, reflected in top NAICS categories: Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (101 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (80 awards). PSC coding aligns: Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression dominates (105 awards), followed by Transportation/Travel/Relocation Passenger Air Charter (76 awards).