DAR Schmid Pilot Services LLC

DAR Schmid Pilot Services LLC, a for-profit sole proprietorship based in Boise, Idaho, provides on-call smokejumper pilot services exclusively to the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region as a prime contractor, operating a government-owned Twin Otter DHC-6-300 aircraft to transport firefighters to remote wildfire locations. The vendor competes under total small business set-asides on its parent indefinite-delivery contract but individual delivery orders split between set-aside and full-and-open designations.

The vendor's customer footprint is singular and concentrated: 100% of its eleven prime awards across the source period are with the Department of the Interior's BLM Idaho Region, representing $3.8 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (140D8021D0016) with a $1.253 million ceiling running through February 28, 2029, under which four task orders have been issued. Two earlier IDCs (140D0425D0009, $497 thousand in combined task-order value, and IND17PC00404, $164 thousand) precede the current vehicle and ran their courses through 2023 and 2024. Recent delivery orders include a $249 thousand order awarded March 1, 2026 (no set-aside), a $248.4 thousand order awarded March 3, 2025 (total small business set-aside), and a $191.3 thousand order awarded February 20, 2024 (no set-aside). All orders require the pilot in command to hold a commercial pilot certificate with multiengine and instrument ratings and a minimum of 1,500 total flight hours, with 24-hour response availability during wildfire season (March through September) and a government guarantee of 90 duty days annually.

Activity has been episodic but recent: one award each in 2022, 2023, and 2024, then two in 2025 and one in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.5 million (40% of the $3.8 million potential value), indicating work is still in performance. The vendor operates under NAICS 488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation), with all work classified under PSC codes spanning navigational aid and pilotage and passenger air charter. With no subcontractor footprint and exclusive customer concentration in a single regional BLM office, the vendor's competitive positioning is functionally dependent on renewal of the current IDC at the February 28, 2029 expiration and continued year-to-year task order placement by that single customer.