Polekat Enterprises LLC

Polekat Enterprises LLC, a sole-proprietor limited liability company and small disadvantaged business based in Boulder, Montana, supplies water handling equipment and trained personnel to support wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response for the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior, operating exclusively as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open federal procurement.

Polekat competes within a narrow and specialized capability footprint. The vendor's entire award portfolio — 16 prime contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles across the past decade — centers on NAICS 926150 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC fire-suppression codes. Work includes supplying water handling equipment, materials, transportation, lodging, and certified personnel for emergency response and prescribed project work across Forest Service regions. Recent representative orders include a $100,800 Total Small Business delivery order from the Forest Service issued July 27, 2026, for water handling and emergency response services in Fossil, Oregon (completed August 13, 2026); a $61,600 delivery order from Forest Service Region 1 Northern Region for the same class of work awarded August 18, 2025; and a $54,250 delivery order from Forest Service Region 4 Intermountain Region awarded September 4, 2024.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for all measurable recent activity. Within Forest Service, the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollar value (three awards, $1 million combined potential value), while Forest Service Region 1 Northern Region places the highest count (six awards, $514 thousand combined potential value). The remaining three regions (R4, R5/Pacific Southwest, R6/Pacific Northwest) account for $126 thousand combined across seven awards. Total activity across all 16 awards spans $1.8 million in combined potential value, with $396 thousand obligated to date (22% of ceiling value). Awards per year show sporadic placement — one award in 2019, one in 2022, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — rather than a consistent pipeline.

Polekat holds three parent vehicles, all indefinite-delivery contracts reserved for small businesses and issued by the National Interagency Fire Center under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The vendor secured a $500,000 firm-fixed-price multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, running through May 30, 2030, covering water handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9; a $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded May 30, 2025, running through June 1, 2025 (now completed), for the same geography; and an earlier $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded June 1, 2022, running through May 30, 2025, also covering Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9. Polekat also sits on a Blanket Purchase Agreement (AG0343B167110) with five task orders valued at $117 thousand combined.

The vendor operates with narrow geographic and customer scope — all work channels through Forest Service regions or the National Interagency Fire Center — and holds no subcontractors or cross-agency federal relationships. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months includes the $250,000 IDC that expired June 1, 2025, and related task orders, though the newer $500,000 award issued February 2026 provides continuation runway through 2030.