Reeder Flying Service, Inc.

Reeder Flying Service, Inc., a Twin Falls, Idaho-based small business, operates as a prime contractor delivering Type III helicopter flight services and aviation turbine fuel supply to federal land management and emergency response agencies, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements with a secondary volume of total small business set-aside awards for specialized aerial operations. The vendor holds no subcontractor relationships and performs all work with internal teams.

The company's federal footprint centers on two distinct capability streams: helicopter operations for wildland fire suppression, wildlife management, and emergency response, and aviation fuel supply. On the helicopter side, Reeder Flying Service holds two major indefinite delivery contracts awarded in 2025—an $11 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center (awarded May 1, 2025, through April 30, 2030) for on-call Type III helicopter flight services supporting animal capture, eradication, tagging, and wild horse and burro programs across the Lower 48 States, and an $11 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (awarded April 8, 2025, through April 7, 2030) for exclusive-use Type III helicopter services in Montana, Minnesota, and New Mexico supporting fire suppression, monitoring, aerial ignition, and law enforcement surveillance. Recent helicopter work includes a $939,964 delivery order with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for exclusive-use Type III helicopter support during the 2026 fire season in Ronan, Montana; a $1,070,315 order with the Department of the Interior's Idaho Region for Type III helicopter services near Elko, Nevada; and a $1,135,357 order with the National Park Service Intermountain Region for helicopter operations in Moab, Utah. On the fuel supply side, the vendor delivers aviation turbine fuel (JAA specification) through hundreds of small delivery orders from the Department of Energy, ranging from sub-$1,000 spot purchases to $15,797.62 delivery orders, all priced on a fixed-price basis with economic price adjustment.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward fuel sales. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy dominates the award count at 2,441 awards (85% of the vendor's recent award volume) carrying $23.3 million in combined potential value—these are primarily aviation fuel delivery orders. The Department of the Interior bureaus (Bureau of Land Management, Interior Business Center, Departmental Offices) account for 93 awards with $174 million in combined potential value and dominate the dollar concentration. The National Interagency Fire Center places 62 awards valued at $122.3 million, anchored by the Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 parent vehicle. The two rankings diverge significantly: DLA Energy generates high volume and low dollars per award (routine fuel purchases), while NIFC and Interior generate lower volume but substantially larger dollars per transaction (helicopter service contracts).

Reeder Flying Service places work under the Department of Energy's three largest IDV fuel contracts—Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60722D0100 (1,015 task orders, $4.2 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE60718D0020 (907 task orders, $2.1 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract SP060014D0030 (512 task orders, $2.1 million)—as well as under the National Interagency Fire Center's Type 1 Helicopter Support Services 2025-2034 parent vehicle and the Department of the Interior's On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 parent contract. The Department of Interior Blanket Purchase Agreement and Bureau of Indian Affairs IDC awarded in 2025 anchor the vendor's largest-value work going forward.

Award activity has grown year over year from 228 awards in 2022 to 424 in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 show flatter volume (378 awards in 2025, 33 year-to-date in 2026). The recompete cliff is modest: four awards totaling $2.4 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's recent BPA and IDC awards, both running through 2029-2030, reduce near-term recompete exposure.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Reeder Flying Service invoiced $27.3 million from FY2022 through FY2025 as a pure prime contractor with zero subcontractor engagement. The company delivered approximately 9.9 FTEs in FY2022, grew to 14.6 FTEs in FY2024, and held 12.6 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run a median of $241.42/hr, with senior labor and pilot positions reaching $489.13/hr at the 90th percentile and junior support labor at $182.69/hr at the 10th percentile. SCI captures only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods (fuel) and products; the vendor's actual federal revenue is substantially larger when accounting for the high volume of small fuel delivery orders and the helicopter service IDC and BPA ceilings.

Reeder Flying Service competes in open competition against all qualified vendors, not through set-aside vehicles, on the vast majority of its fuel supply awards, though its two largest helicopter contracts (the Interior BPA and BIA IDC) were awarded as total small business set-asides. The vendor operates as a pure prime with no sub engagement, delivering all helicopter operations and fuel logistics internally and maintaining no teaming relationships. Its customer concentration in DLA Energy fuel purchases and NIFC/Interior helicopter operations reflects a specialization in western U.S. aviation logistics and wildland fire support for federal agencies.