Natures Calling Sanitation

Natures Calling Sanitation, a sole proprietorship based in John Day, Oregon, supplies portable toilets, wheelchair-accessible portable toilets, and hand washing stations to federal agencies as a prime contractor specializing in sanitation infrastructure for wildland firefighting and incident response operations across the continental United States. The vendor operates as a small business (NAICS 562991, Septic Tank and Related Services, and NAICS 541614, Support Activities for Forestry) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its primary vehicle, though individual delivery orders under that vehicle may carry no set-aside designation.

Natures Calling Sanitation's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The National Interagency Fire Center (Fire and Aviation Management) anchors the dollar portfolio with 3 awards carrying $7.6 million in combined potential value—nearly 93% of the vendor's total $8.2 million in combined potential value across all 34 prime awards. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) accounts for 18 awards worth $477 thousand combined potential value by count, but those orders are substantially smaller individual deployments. The top five funding agencies account for 99% of combined potential value, with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service corporate, and the Department of Veterans Affairs rounding out the active set.

Natures Calling Sanitation holds a $7.5 million indefinite-delivery contract (1202RZ22T0045) awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center on July 1, 2022, running through June 30, 2027, designated as a total small business set-aside multiple-award vehicle. The contract enables ordering by the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nationwide. Under this IDV, the vendor has received five task orders worth $321 thousand combined potential value, including a $255.88 thousand delivery order from the Pacific Northwest Region on July 18, 2024, for wildland firefighting support in Oregon, and a $37.14 thousand delivery order on July 9, 2024, for portable sanitation equipment and services. Most recently, on July 8, 2026, the vendor received a $7.82 thousand delivery order under total small business set-aside from the Pacific Northwest Region for portable sanitation services in Pendleton, Oregon, effective through July 19, 2026.

Activity has remained sparse but steady—three awards in 2021 and 2022, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026—with only $678 thousand obligated against the $8.2 million combined potential value, reflecting the project-based, incident-responsive nature of wildland fire and emergency sanitation deployment. Natures Calling Sanitation operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract activity in the source footprint. The vendor has been registered in SAM.gov since 2004 and works exclusively on federal wildland incident response and forestry support operations with no exposure to other federal customer sectors.