Northstar Trekking, LLC

Northstar Trekking, LLC, doing business as North Star Trekking LLC, operates as a prime contractor providing helicopter flight operations and aerial surveying services to federal land management and emergency response agencies across Alaska, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders.

Northstar Trekking is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Juneau, Alaska, and operates as a subsidiary of Survey Point Holdings, Inc. The vendor competes across nonscheduled chartered passenger and freight air transportation (NAICS 481212, 481213) and delivers exclusive-use light helicopter services, on-call helicopter operations, aerial surveying and mapping, wildland firefighting logistics, climate monitoring field work, and emergency response support in remote Alaskan terrain. The vendor operates as a pure prime without material subcontractor reliance on core helicopter delivery; across the federal award footprint, 95% of awards are primes and just 3 sub-awards are recorded, all routed through Chugach Dynamic Solutions LLC for IP radio installation transport support.

Customer concentration is weighted heavily to interior Department of the Interior bureaus and the Department of Agriculture wildfire management mission. The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center leads by combined potential value at $32.4 million across 8 awards, anchored by a $16.47 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded March 1, 2022, running through February 28, 2027, for on-call helicopter flight services across Alaska. The National Interagency Fire Center (USDA Forest Service) accounts for 11 awards and $7.4 million in potential value. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region holds 6 awards totaling $6.4 million, including a $5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded May 1, 2022, running through April 30, 2026, for exclusive-use light helicopter cadastral flight services at the Campbell Tract Facility. The National Park Service Alaska Region accounts for 8 awards valued at $189 thousand. Together, the top five customer entities represent 100% of combined potential value across the award footprint. Recent representative work includes a $77,979 Yakutat Orphan Wells 2026 delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (September 2026, Total Small Business set-aside), a $46,212 Glacier Bay National Park repeater work delivery order from the National Park Service Alaska Region (July 2026, Total Small Business), an $803,333 Juneau 100-Day Map delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center (June 2025, full-and-open), and a $606,581 exclusive-use Type III non-fire helicopter services delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (May 2024, full-and-open).

Northstar Trekking holds two primary indefinite-delivery vehicles: the $16.47 million Interior Business Center on-call helicopter contract (10 task orders) and the $5 million Bureau of Land Management exclusive-use light helicopter cadastral contract (single award). The vendor also places work under the National Interagency Fire Center Basic Ordering Agreement 12024B20G5705 (10 task orders, $949 thousand), the Indefinite Delivery Contract 140D8122D0016 (10 task orders, $304 thousand), and the Blanket Purchase Agreement AG0116B159009 (7 task orders, $74 thousand). Vehicle work is predominantly helicopter charter and emergency response support, with task orders ranging from sub-$10,000 to the mid-$600,000 range.

Activity over the past five years shows 11 awards in 2024 followed by a decline to 3 awards each in 2025 and 2026. Of the $85.5 million combined potential value across 56 awards spanning 2022–2026, only $4.1 million (5%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the heavy use of IDIQs and BOAs with small, periodic task orders rather than large single awards. The vendor faces minimal recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months, with only one award ($78 thousand) completing by September 2027.

Service Contract Inventory reports $1.2 million in prime-contract invoicing across FY2023–FY2024, with a single active SCI contract in both years delivering roughly 1.3 FTEs per fiscal year. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reported prime work ran narrow around $227/hr (10th percentile $226.29, median $227.07, 90th percentile $227.85), characteristic of helicopter operations labor. The SCI dataset captures only contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue; the majority of Northstar Trekking's federal footprint is delivery-order task work under small dollar ceilings and therefore falls outside SCI reporting, making the $1.2 million SCI figure a strict underrepresentation of the vendor's total federal services activity.