Mountain Camel Inc.

Mountain Camel Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Kalispell, Montana, delivers wildland fire management support—specialized vehicles, water handling equipment, and certified personnel—to the USDA Forest Service and interagency partners as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime, with 100% of its 55 recent awards held directly, and competes across both set-aside and unrestricted solicitations, though recent activity (2024–2026) has concentrated under total small business set-asides issued through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Mountain Camel's customer base is narrowly concentrated within the Forest Service ecosystem. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for the overwhelming majority of awards, split across the National Interagency Fire Center (10 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value), Region 1–Northern Region (13 awards, $814 thousand), Region 5–Pacific Southwest Region (9 awards, $243 thousand), Region 6–Pacific Northwest Region (2 awards, $144 thousand), and general Forest Service accounts (9 awards, $278 thousand). These five Forest Service entities alone account for 78% of award count and 93% of combined potential value. The Idaho Region of the Forest Service is also a customer. No other federal agencies appear in the award footprint. Work is performed across multiple locations—Montana (Kalispell), Oregon (Sandy), Minnesota (Duluth), Idaho (Boise), and California (Redding, Yreka)—reflecting dispatch-driven incident response operations spanning Forest Service Regions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9.

Mountain Camel holds three active indefinite delivery contracts, all issued under total small business set-asides for water handling services. The oldest, awarded June 1, 2022, with a $250 thousand ceiling and ultimate completion date of May 30, 2025, has generated 16 task orders valued at $486 thousand combined potential value. A second IDC, awarded May 30, 2025, also carries a $250 thousand ceiling and runs through May 30, 2030, with 8 task orders worth $232 thousand to date. The most recent IDC, awarded February 6, 2026, has a $500 thousand ceiling and the same 2030 completion date, with 3 task orders valued at $216 thousand. All three are multiple-award contracts under the VIPR system covering East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9. The vendor also participates in blanket purchase agreements, including AG0343B167099 (6 task orders, $241 thousand) and AG0343C078124 (5 task orders), structured as on-call incident support mechanisms for Forest Service dispatch centers. Recent representative delivery orders include $101 thousand (August 9, 2026) for water handling in Forest Service Region 6–Pacific Northwest, $88.2 thousand (July 23, 2026) for Region 9–Eastern Region incident support, and $67.8 thousand (August 21, 2026) for Region 1 operations, all under total small business set-asides and firm fixed-price terms.

Activity peaked in 2024 with 11 awards, declining to 2 awards in 2025 before recovering to 5 awards through August 2026. The combined potential value across all 55 awards totals $2.9 million, with $1.8 million (63%) obligated. Nearly all categorization (55 of 55 awards) falls under NAICS Support Activities for Forestry, and 54 of 55 awards carry PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, reflecting a highly specialized and focused service offering tied to seasonal incident demand and multi-year IDC vehicles that structure future ordering across regional dispatch networks.