Ponderosa Fire LLC

Ponderosa Fire LLC, a veteran-owned limited-liability company based in Boise, Idaho, provides water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel for federal wildfire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed burn operations as a prime contractor operating under small-business set-asides.

The vendor's entire federal footprint consists of three awards spanning two fiscal years — two Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) awarded in 2025 and early 2026, and one delivery order issued in August 2025. All three awards derive from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split between the National Interagency Fire Center (which holds the two IDCs, $500 thousand combined potential value) and the Forest Service's Region 4–Intermountain Region (which issued the $68.8 thousand delivery order). Both the delivery order and the primary IDC carry firm fixed-price terms and are set aside for small businesses; the IDC awarded February 6, 2026 carries a $250 thousand ceiling through May 30, 2030, while the Forest Service IDC awarded May 30, 2025 also carries a $250 thousand ceiling through May 30, 2030. The delivery order, completed in August 2025, represents the only obligated work ($68.8 thousand), meaning the two IDCs remain largely unutilized in terms of actual invoiced spend — combined potential value is $569 thousand against only $69 thousand in obligated dollars (12% utilization).

Both IDCs deploy through the Virtual Incident Procurement system to issue Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements for fire suppression resources across U.S. Forest Service East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, with optional utilization available to the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Ponderosa Fire holds no parent GWACs, agency-wide vehicles, or subcontracting relationships in the source data; all three awards are prime work with no noted subs. The vendor's work is categorized entirely under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, reflecting a hyperspecialized fire-support operational capability. Award activity is nascent — two awards in 2025, one in 2026 — with both IDCs extending performance through 2030; recompete exposure, if any, does not materialize within the standard twenty-four-month window.