Flamecatchers, LLC

Flamecatchers, LLC, doing business as Piersol's Flamecatchers, is a small business sole proprietorship based in Richfield, Idaho that supplies wildland fire suppression equipment, services, and personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal land management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across multiple vehicle types. The company is owned by Robert Piersol and operates across the western United States with heavy regional concentration in the Intermountain Region (Region 4).

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on specialized wildland fire incident response delivered on a firm fixed-price basis. Flamecatchers supplies flamecatchers, water tenders (Type 1, tactical, and other variants), Type 4 and Type 6 fire engines, service trucks with mechanics, heavy equipment (dozers, excavators, tractor plows), water handling and transportation services with trained driver support, and vegetation management labor. Recent representative work includes a $198,011.52 delivery order from the Forest Service Intermountain Region for wildland fire equipment and personnel (August 2025), a $123,700 order for the same (July 2025), and a $75,000 purchase order from the Idaho Region for a Type 1 water tender (June 2025). The company has received over 30 federal contract awards since 2019, with individual order values historically ranging from $4,000 to approximately $198,000. All work is performed directly by the company with no documented subcontractor footprint.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward federal fire management agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 82 percent of recent awards. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by combined potential value at 38 awards worth $4.8 million, while the Forest Service Intermountain Region (Region 4) leads by volume at 48 awards worth $2.4 million. The Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station placed 27 awards worth $902 thousand. The Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region rounds out the active set at 16 awards worth $381 thousand. Activity has grown from 20 awards in 2022 to 29 in both 2024 and 2025, with 21 awards placed year-to-date in 2026.

Flamecatchers holds a portfolio of multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and the Forest Service. The largest vehicle by task order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T7487 (36 task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value), followed by IDC 1284M819T7109 (29 task orders, $1 million), and Blanket Purchase Agreement AG84M8B167054 (26 task orders, $725 thousand). Additional VIPR vehicles include IDC 1202SB25T7909 (19 task orders, $798 thousand). All vehicles carry Total Small Business set-asides and firm fixed-price pricing structures. Recent awards include multiple IDCs awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in February 2026 for water handling services ($500,000 ceiling through May 2030), heavy equipment ($500,000 ceiling through June 2028), and vehicle-with-driver and mechanic-with-service-truck support ($250,000 each through 2028-2031), as well as a July 2026 IDC award for vehicle-with-driver services in Regions 1 and 4 ($250,000 ceiling through July 2031). These vehicles enable rapid task order issuance for fire suppression and all-hazard incident response across East Zone regions without requiring full competition for each individual order.

Flamecatchers competes exclusively as a prime contractor under set-asides. Its 184 awards in the source data are 100 percent prime work. Nearly all awards (166 out of 184) fall under PSC 3730 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression), with 153 awards categorized under NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry). The combined potential value of the vendor's award footprint is approximately $11 million, with $6.5 million obligated to date (59 percent realization rate). The award trajectory shows sustained growth and diversification across multiple vehicle types, with 21 awards placed in the nine months through September 2026.