Rapid Fire Protection Inc.

Rapid Fire Protection Inc., doing business as Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, is a for-profit fire protection contractor based in Rapid City, South Dakota, that delivers fire suppression system repairs, installation, and maintenance to federal facilities as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor to construction primes. The company is a subsidiary of Fire Protection Service Corp, a Utah-based parent organization, and competes without SBA set-asides on firm-fixed-price purchase orders across civilian agencies.

The vendor's customer base is fragmented across eleven distinct federal agencies, with no dominant single customer. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 accounts for three awards totaling $33 thousand in combined potential value and ranks highest by dollar magnitude; the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region, and Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha each hold four awards. Recent prime work is representative of the portfolio: a $5,970 purchase order from the National Park Service Intermountain Region for fire suppression system repairs at Devils Tower National Monument (June 2026, completion by December 2026); a $16,515 firm-fixed-price order from the VA for emergency wet sprinkler piping repairs at the Hot Springs VA Medical Center (November 2024, completed December 2024); and a $4,267 purchase order from the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for a gate valve replacement in the Black Hills National Forest fire suppression pumphouse (December 2024, completed January 2025). Work is categorized primarily under NAICS 238220 (Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors, 11 awards) and PSC codes for fire-control equipment maintenance and repair.

The company maintains minimal recurring activity. Awards issued in the past five years average fewer than two annually, with only one award in 2025 and two in 2026. Combined potential value across all 38 recent awards totals $158 thousand, while combined obligated dollars reach $3.7 million — indicating execution of older work. Only one award faces completion in the next twenty-four months. In its subcontractor role, Rapid Fire Protection performs fire suppression design and preconstruction services and fire alarm installation work under Fluor Federal Solutions on weapons storage facility contracts at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (March 2026) and under Nova Group on air base hydrant fuel system and road repair projects (May 2022). The vendor's SCI-reportable federal service work is minimal: three records spanning FY2022 through FY2024, all in a subcontractor capacity, with 0.6 FTEs recorded in FY2022 and no SCI-reportable activity after that period. This vendor operates as a low-volume regional facility maintenance specialist rather than a scalable systems integrator or program contractor.