Northwestern Fire Services LLC

Northwestern Fire Services LLC, a small business based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, provides wildland fire suppression support, weed washing units, equipment rental, and all-hazards response services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor operating exclusively in full-and-open competition without set-aside designations, despite holding multiple total small business set-aside IDIQs from which task orders are issued.

The vendor's customer footprint is concentrated in the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, which accounts for all active work across five distinct customer entities. The National Interagency Fire Center dominates both volume and dollars — six awards carrying $8.8 million in combined potential value — followed by the Pacific Northwest Region (3 awards, $322 thousand), the Rocky Mountain Research Station (1 award, $250 thousand), the Intermountain Region (1 award, $48 thousand), and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (2 awards, $96 thousand). Combined potential value across all thirteen awards is $9.5 million, with $268 thousand currently obligated.

Northwestern Fire Services holds five active IDIQs. The largest is a $7.5 million single-award total small business contract awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in May 2025 for multipurpose off-highway vehicle rental to support incident response operations nationwide, with primary performance in Lakewood, Colorado and surrounding areas through December 2026. The vendor also holds a $500 thousand multiple-award total small business IDIQ from the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded February 2026, running through May 2030) for weed washing units and services across Forest Service Regions 1, 2, and 4; a $250 thousand multiple-award IDIQ for weed washing units in Regions 1, 2, and 4 (awarded May 2025, completion May 2030); a $250 thousand expired multiple-award IDIQ for weed washing in Regions 3, 5, and 6 (completion June 2025); and a $250 thousand expired multiple-award IDIQ for Regions 1, 2, and 4 (completion May 2025). Recent representative work includes a $73,100 purchase order for weed washing units from the Forest Service Idaho Region (June 2025, completion October 2025), a $48,300 delivery order for weed washing services in the Intermountain Region (August 2024, completion September 2024), and a $43,980 delivery order from the Pacific Northwest Region for wildland fire suppression services (October 2023, completion October 2023). Capability work is concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS, 12 awards) with secondary work in equipment rental, driven by the Natural Resources/Conservation – Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC (10 awards).

Activity accelerated in 2025 with four awards, up from two in 2024 and one in 2023, reflecting the vendor's recent capture of the $7.5 million OHV rental IDIQ and the $500 thousand weed washing multiple-award contract. No recompete cliff is evident in the near term given the recent award dates of the two largest vehicles, though two legacy IDIQs (Regions 3, 5, 6 and the legacy Regions 1, 2, 4 contract) expired or expire in 2025.