Paramedics Unlimited, LLC

Paramedics Unlimited, LLC, doing business as Medical Education, is a veteran-owned small business based in Phoenix, Arizona, that provides standby paramedic and emergency medical technician personnel, ambulances, medical support units, rescue vehicles, and utility terrain vehicles exclusively to federal wildland firefighting and incident response operations as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on its Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, though most individual task orders and purchase orders are issued full-and-open, unsetz-aside.

Paramedics Unlimited's customer concentration is narrow and structural. The top five funding agencies account for 81% of awards by count and 96% by potential value, anchored by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (12 awards, $20.9 million combined potential value), followed by Forest Service Region 3—Southwestern Region (59 awards, $6 million), Region 6—Pacific Northwest Region (23 awards, $2.2 million), Region 5—Pacific Southwest Region (8 awards, $801 thousand), and the general Forest Service office (9 awards, $703 thousand). The vendor operates almost exclusively within the federal wildland firefighting ecosystem; the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Arizona Region accounts for 9 awards and $60 thousand, the only meaningful customer outside the Forest Service and NIFC network. Work is coded primarily to NAICS 333618 (Support Activities for Forestry, 88 of 138 awards) and NAICS 621410 (Ambulance Services, 39 awards), with PSC 44 codes (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression) accounting for 96 of 138 awards.

The vendor holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with NIFC awarded in February 2026, each under Total Small Business set-aside: a $250,000 Rapid Extraction Module Support (REMS) contract running through July 16, 2029; a $500,000 Emergency Medical Responder for Region 13—National contract through June 27, 2028; and a $750,000 Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support Ambulance Service for Region 13—National contract through June 12, 2028. These vehicles represent a consolidation and upgrade from earlier generations of REMS and emergency medical responder IDCs awarded in June 2023 (ceiling values $250,000 each) that supported baseline task order activity of $164,000 to $228,000. Paramedics Unlimited also holds a $7.5 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with NIFC for Mobile Fire Incident COVID-19 Testing through May 1, 2027, and multiple predecessor IDCs with Forest Service regions carrying similar scope through 2028. The three IDCs from the top parent vehicles block represent legacy VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) contracts.

Activity has been episodic. The vendor placed 13 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, and 13 in 2024, then dropped to 2 awards in 2025 and 8 in 2026. The combined potential value across all 138 awards is $31.9 million, with $22.2 million obligated (69% of potential). Recent representative awards include a $269,218 purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 for a Little Giant medical vehicle (MEDV) on August 1, 2026; a $437,533.20 purchase order from Region 6 for a Rescue Vehicle on July 30, 2024; a $146,564.60 purchase order from Region 3 for a Rapid Extraction Support Module (REMS) on January 1, 2025; and multiple paramedic and EMT standby delivery orders valued between $8,745 and $93,470 across regions. The vendor previously held a $2.7 million contract to provide medical support for the Forest Service's COVID-19 vaccination response. Paramedics Unlimited operates exclusively as a prime; the vendor carries no subcontract footprint in the source data.