Rogers Helicopters Inc.

Rogers Helicopters Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Fresno, California, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft support services for wildland fire suppression, aerial firefighting, search and rescue, and resource management to federal civilian agencies. The company competes in both full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories, with recent major IDIQs carrying total small business designations, and operates across NAICS codes emphasizing nonscheduled chartered passenger and freight air transportation (138 and 46 awards respectively) with secondary work under support activities for forestry.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward wildland fire and natural resource agencies. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) dominates the portfolio — 59 awards valued at $240 million combined potential value (covering 57% of the total $421.4 million across all awards) — while the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices, Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, and National Park Service Pacific West Region together account for another $107.9 million (26% combined potential value). The top five customers account for 72% of award count and 92% of combined potential value, with NIFC's concentration in both metrics underscoring the vendor's specialization in federal fire-response contracting.

Rogers Helicopters maintains positions on six primary vehicle platforms. The Helicopter Support Services - Type 2 IDIQ ($50 million ceiling, multiple award, no set-aside) is the largest by historical scale, issuing 23 task orders; the National Light Fixed Wing Services IDIQ ($57 million ceiling, awarded January 2024, total small business set-aside) carries additional capacity for rotary and fixed-wing support. The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023-2032 contract ($20 million ceiling, multiple award) has generated 12 task orders since award in April 2023 and extends through December 2027. Subordinate vehicles supporting Department of Interior air attack missions ($22 million ceiling, May 2023 through November 2028, total small business set-aside) and National Park Service on-call helicopter services ($49.5 million ceiling, May 2022 through April 2027, total small business set-aside) round out the active IDIQ footprint. Representative recent delivery orders include a $193,967.82 call-when-needed Type II helicopter order from the California Region (June 2026), a $117,875.85 order from NIFC (April 2026), a $82,985.35 order from NIFC under Type 3 services (January 2025), and a $929,794.79 delivery order for 2022 National Air Attack light fixed-wing ATGS base operations and four option years in Grass Valley (awarded May 2022).

Activity has declined from a peak of 19 awards annually in 2022-2023 to 11 in 2024, then 3 in 2025 and 2 in 2026, suggesting either vendor consolidation or slowing fire-season contracting velocity. Within the next twenty-four months, eight awards carrying $1.2 million combined potential value face ultimate completion dates, exposing Rogers to modest recompete risk on smaller residual task orders. SCI-reported invoicing across federal services contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $5.9 million across FY2022-2024 ($3.2 million in FY2022, $827 thousand in FY2023, $1.9 million in FY2024), with the vendor deploying roughly 6.0 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 1.8 in FY2023 and recovering to 3.0 in FY2024. Government-paid rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran a median $227.65 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $340.69 per hour at the 90th percentile. Rogers performs all work in-house — zero subcontractor hour engagement on SCI prime records — and operates aircraft assets (primarily the N911VR, N811KA, and N877XL helicopter variants) from Fresno and field locations across California and western public lands.

Helicopter Services: External-Load, Air Ambulance, Fire Supression, Search and Rescue, Movies, Topography, Aerial Contruction Public Utilities, Air Transportation, Repair Station, Service Centers for Bell, Eurocopter, and McDonnel Douglas Helicopters