Schaffeld, Meshell

Schaffeld, Meshell, a sole proprietor Hispanic American-owned, woman-owned, economically disadvantaged small business based in Vale, Oregon, provides transportation and pickup services for wildland fire management and incident response operations to federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating entirely without subcontractors. The vendor holds two multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center, both set-aside for total small business participation, with ceilings of $250 thousand each covering Regions 5 and 6 of the Western Zone through June 2028. Work centers on furnishing pickup trucks, stake side trucks, passenger vans, and sport utility vehicles staffed with drivers for rapid deployment to wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response activities on federal lands.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to fire management operations within the Department of Agriculture. The top two customers account for 93% of awards: the National Interagency Fire Center (4 awards, $765 thousand combined potential value) and the Forest Service R6–Pacific Northwest Region (5 awards, $466 thousand combined potential value), with the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management in Oregon-Washington and Idaho rounding out the customer base. Recent representative awards include a $14.91 thousand purchase order from the Forest Service Idaho Region on June 1, 2025, for Type 1 transportation services with completion in October 2025, and delivery orders under the National Interagency Fire Center indefinite delivery vehicles for on-demand transportation in support of incident response. The vendor's activity is sparse but sustained — one award annually over the past five years — with a combined potential value across all fourteen prime awards of $1.3 million and only $54 thousand obligated to date. The award portfolio reflects a narrow, specialized niche: nine awards fall under All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485999), and ten awards carry the Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC. No recompete cliff signals imminent expiration risk; the primary IDVs run through June 2028.