Muse Trucking, Inc.

Muse Trucking, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Redding, California, operates as a prime contractor providing freight transportation and logistics services to the federal government, competing exclusively under small-business set-asides. The company holds a $7.5 million single-award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center for the National Tier 3 Incident Support Freight program, running through December 31, 2026, which grants exclusive rights to deliver nationwide freight transportation services for wildfire response operations.

Muse Trucking's capability footprint is narrowly focused on freight logistics for emergency wildland firefighting. The company transports government-owned and contractor-provided trailers and equipment between agency caches and remote incident sites, with pricing structured at $6.75 per mile for government trailers and $8.00 per mile for contractor-provided equipment. Recent representative work includes a $450,000 BPA call awarded March 6, 2025 by the National Interagency Fire Center for Northern California incident support cache transportation, a $300,000 BPA call awarded March 3, 2026 for the same region, and a $366,170 BPA call awarded March 25, 2024. All awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations. The company is registered as a Subchapter S Corporation and has maintained SAM registration since 2004.

Customer concentration is extreme and immobile. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 99% of awards across five organizational layers, with the National Interagency Fire Center alone anchoring $9.2 million in combined potential value across eight recent awards. The R5-Pacific Southwest Region (Muse's home region) generated 185 awards totaling $1 million combined potential value, while the Fire and Aviation Management Federal Fire and Aviation Management organization accounts for 55 awards at $313 thousand. Outside Forest Service channels, Muse has placed minimal work. The vendor's BPA footprint sits almost entirely on two large blanket purchase agreements: AG9J61B120006 (170 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value) and AG9A73B170001 (59 task orders, $625 thousand), with a third vehicle, 1202SC22T2707, contributing 6 task orders at $1.7 million. The company operates on 100% prime awards with no sub-award footprint.

Over the past five years (2022–2026), award velocity has declined — three awards in 2022 tapering to one in each subsequent year through 2026 — reflecting contract consolidation under the parent $7.5 million IDV rather than continued issuance of separate awards. Combined potential value across all 258 awards in the source totals $11.1 million, with obligated dollars at $3.3 million (30% realization). Two awards totaling $750 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure in a customer relationship where all work flows through a single agency and a single program code.