North Western Sky LLC

North Western Sky LLC, a Missoula, Montana-based limited liability company, provides mileage-based freight transportation services for wildfire suppression and pre-suppression logistics to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The vendor operates as a sole proprietorship with a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) structure that anchors all recent work.

North Western Sky LLC holds a $7.5 million BPA (awarded March 8, 2022, running through December 31, 2026) issued by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center under the National Tier 3 Incident Support Freight program. The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly focused: mileage-based transportation of supplies and equipment from the Northern Rockies Incident Support Cache in Missoula to remote wildfire sites across the continental United States and Alaska, using both government-owned and contractor-operated trailers priced at a firm fixed rate of $5.00 per mile for government trailer transport. Representative task orders placed against the BPA include a $60,000 Total Small Business set-aside call issued February 27, 2026 (most recent award), a $31,514 Total Small Business call from April 4, 2024, and a $30,505 Total Small Business call from April 18, 2022.

Customer concentration is absolute: all 29 prime awards across the vendor's footprint fund USDA Forest Service operations, split between the National Interagency Fire Center (6 awards, $7.6 million combined potential value) and the Regional R1-Northern Region office (22 awards, $44,000 combined potential value). The divergence between award count and dollar value reflects the National Interagency Fire Center's single large-dollar IDV paired with numerous smaller regional task orders. The vendor places task orders under two BPAs: the primary $7.5 million National Tier 3 Incident Support Freight BPA (15 task orders, $30,000 combined potential value) and a second BPA (5 task orders, $145,000 combined potential value).

Activity has been episodic rather than growth-oriented: the vendor held 2 awards in 2022 and has recorded no more than 1 award per year since 2023. Only two awards (combined potential value $60,000) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure. NAICS coding reflects transportation logistics work, with support activities for forestry (23 awards) and general freight trucking local (6 awards) dominating the portfolio. The vendor has obligated only $196,000 against a $7.7 million combined potential-value ceiling — a 3% utilization rate — indicating task-order work is episodic and tied to active incident demand rather than standing staffing or asset commitments.

Trucking services delivering supplies and freight, long-haul or local. LTL specialists. One way or round trip freight movement. Support activities for wildland fire fighting.