North Slope Catering, LLC

North Slope Catering, LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in North Pole, Alaska, operates as a prime contractor providing mobile food services and catering support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center, exclusively supporting federal wildland firefighting and all-hazard emergency response operations across the western United States and Alaska.

North Slope Catering is structured as a limited liability partnership classified as a for-profit organization with self-certified small disadvantaged business status and woman-owned small business certification. The vendor competes primarily under total small business set-asides on its parent IDIQs, though individual delivery orders are frequently issued without set-aside designation once the parent vehicle is established. The company's capability footprint is narrowly specialized: mobile food service units equipped to deliver hot and cold meals, provisions, and comprehensive catering support to incident personnel operating from remote primitive locations to urban bases during firefighting suppression and emergency response operations. Representative work includes a $1.205 million delivery order from the Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) awarded July 17, 2025, for meal services in Eureka, California; a $686,978 delivery order from the Forest Service awarded August 28, 2025, with performance in Sandpoint, Idaho; and a $936,252 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) awarded July 31, 2026, with performance in Roseburg, Oregon. All work carries fixed-price structures with economic price adjustment provisions.

Customer concentration is extreme and vertical: 93% of awards by count fund the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center program, which carries $65.8 million in combined potential value across 21 awards. The Forest Service R6-Pacific Northwest Region places an additional 15 awards totaling $4.7 million, and generic Forest Service awards account for 12 awards and $14.6 million. The vendor serves seven distinct customer agencies in name only; operational concentration on wildland fire and all-hazard incident response through the NIFC and Forest Service regional offices is categorical. The top-customers-by-potential-value ranking closely tracks the award-count ranking, indicating sustained dollar magnitude per order rather than concentration among a few large task orders.

North Slope Catering holds two active parent IDIQs. The Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025-2029 IDIQ, awarded July 1, 2025, carries a $15 million ceiling set aside for total small business and runs through December 31, 2029. The vendor has issued nine task orders against it totaling $4.5 million in combined potential value. The predecessor vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract 12024B20T2513, supported 33 task orders valued at $19.8 million combined potential value and appears to have run through 2024. An older contract, AG024BC159010A, generated two task orders totaling $2.6 million and concluded December 31, 2024.

Activity has grown episodically but remains concentrated in core fire-season ordering. The past five years show 2022 with 7 awards, 2023 with 12 awards, 2024 with 8 awards, 2025 with 5 awards, and 2026 year-to-date with 6 awards. Of 54 total prime awards in the source, 54 are delivery orders issued against multiple-award IDIQs; the vendor holds no direct contracts as a prime contractor independent of these vehicles. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $88.8 million, with $49.5 million obligated to date (56% of potential). The vendor does not subcontract; 100% of awards are prime delivery orders with no identified sub-awards in the source. Work is performed at multiple locations across wildland fire incident bases including Roseburg, Oregon; Medford, Oregon; Boise, Idaho; Reno, Nevada; Grants Pass, Oregon; Sandpoint, Idaho; Eureka, California; and North Pole, Alaska, with completion dates typically tied to incident seasonality (most orders complete by December 31 of their award year).