Mountain West Helicopters, LLC

Mountain West Helicopters, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Saratoga Springs, Utah, operates as a prime contractor providing Type I, II, and III helicopter flight services for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burns, aerial ignition, personnel and equipment transport, and natural resource management missions to federal land management agencies with no subcontractor activity. The company competes predominantly under full-and-open competitive vehicles, though it holds multiple positions on small business set-aside IDIQs and BOAs with the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture.

Mountain West's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in wildfire and natural resource aviation. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), operating under the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management division, accounts for 73 awards totaling $219.3 million in combined potential value—roughly 57% of all awards and 57% of combined potential value across the portfolio. Representative prime work includes a $6.5 million Type I helicopter support delivery order from NIFC for wildland fire suppression operations at Bishop, California (awarded March 25, 2025, completing December 31, 2029), a $6.08 million Type I delivery order for fire suppression at Casitas, California (awarded May 5, 2025, completing December 31, 2029), and a $60,000 Type III on-call delivery order from the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management for the Kyune Creek aerial ignition program in Utah (awarded August 26, 2026, completing December 31, 2026). Recent activity shows growth from 15 awards in 2022 to a peak of 24 awards in 2024, with 4 awards in 2025 and 8 through August 2026.

Mountain West holds four primary IDIQs anchoring its delivery order activity. The Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 contract (awarded January 1, 2025, $50 million ceiling, no set-aside) and the Type 2 Helicopter Support Services contract (awarded January 1, 2024, $50 million ceiling, no set-aside, extending through December 31, 2033) are the largest vehicles and support broad fire suppression and natural resource missions. The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023-2032 IDIQ ($10 million ceiling, awarded April 12, 2023, no set-aside) carries five task orders totaling $367 thousand. The On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 contract ($49.5 million ceiling, awarded May 1, 2022, total small business set-aside, Interior Business Center) supports Bureau of Land Management operations and carries five task orders totaling $243 thousand. Two basic ordering agreements—12024B20G5044 (38 task orders, $10.1 million combined value) and 12024B19G5403 (16 task orders, $1.5 million combined value)—handle smaller, tactical aviation requirements primarily through NIFC. Beyond NIFC, the Department of the Interior Interior Business Center (2 awards, $49.5 million) and the Department of the Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget (1 award, $40 million) represent the second and third largest value concentrations, driven by the two large multi-year IDIQs. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, National Park Service Intermountain Region, and Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region follow with smaller task order volumes and values in the tens of thousands to low millions.

Work is performed across the Western United States, with documented performance locations in Utah (Saratoga Springs, Grantsville, Cedar City, Lehi, Spanish Fork, Price), California (Ventura, Bishop), Colorado (Glade Park), and Wyoming (Jackson). The portfolio carries NAICS concentration in Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (88 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (26 awards), with Support Activities for Forestry (24 awards) reflecting the prescribed-burn and suppression scope. Combined potential value across all 145 prime awards totals $382.8 million, with $109 million obligated (28% of potential). Seven awards totaling $497 thousand complete within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure, representing minimal near-term recompete cliff pressure. Distinct customer agencies total 19, though the vendor's footprint is operationally dominated by NIFC and DOI land management operations across the intermountain region and broader Western United States fire management infrastructure.

Helicopter operations, specialized in wildland fire suppression, Burned Aera Emergency Response BAER, aerial straw mulch, aerial seeding, helicopter logging, helicopter construction. external loads,