Sand Creek Fire LLC

Sand Creek Fire LLC, doing business as Sand Creek Tree Service, is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Sandpoint, Idaho, that provides wildland firefighting support services to the U.S. Forest Service and interagency fire management customers as a prime contractor operating exclusively under small-business set-asides. The company delivers water tenders, firefighter personnel, fire suppression equipment, and allied emergency-response assets through indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements managed by the National Interagency Fire Center.

Sand Creek Fire operates within a concentrated customer set. The top five Forest Service components account for 84% of recent awards, anchored by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (5 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value), with the Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, the R6–Pacific Northwest Region, the R2–Rocky Mountain Region, and the Washington Office Acquisitions rounding out the active base. The two customer rankings converge tightly — NIFC dominates both award count and dollar value — indicating consistent engagement rather than a single large order propping up a customer position.

Sand Creek Fire's work sits on three primary indefinite delivery vehicles. The National Interagency Fire Center issued a total-small-business-set-aside multiple-award IDC with a $500,000 ceiling in February 2026 running through May 2030, from which Sand Creek has drawn task orders for water handling services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 via the Virtual Incident Procurement system. Two earlier IDCs with $250,000 ceilings each were issued in June 2022 and May 2025, likewise set aside for total small business and supporting the same regional fire and all-hazard response mission. Delivery orders under these vehicles typically range from $19,800 to $61,100 in value. Representative recent awards include a $23,338 delivery order from the Rocky Mountain Region in July 2026 for wildland firefighting support in Delta, Colorado; a $61,100 order from the same region in June 2026 for firefighting support in Pueblo, Colorado; and a $46,200 firm fixed price purchase order from the Idaho Region in June 2025 for a Type 2 water tender delivered to Boise. Earlier work includes a $25,200 delivery order from the Southwestern Region in June 2022 for firefighter services in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Award activity has been episodic — two awards in 2022, two in 2024, two in 2025, three in 2026 — totaling 25 prime awards across the source window with a combined potential value of $2.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $505 thousand (23% of potential value). Sand Creek operates exclusively as a prime, with no subcontract footprint, and competes entirely under total small business set-asides. All 25 awards cluster under NAICS 541712 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The company has maintained SAM registration since 2011 and appears registered with the Forest Service's multiple-region emergency procurement pipeline across five regions (East Zone 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9).

With 10 years experience in contract and federal firefighting and a 3,000-gallon tactical water tender, Sand Creek Fire LLC has the experience and tools necessary to participate in wildland fire suppression.