Scorched Industries Inc.

Scorched Industries Inc., a small business based in El Dorado Hills, California, supplies heavy equipment for wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor holds four indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) with the National Interagency Fire Center, all awarded since June 2023, with a combined potential value of $1 million.

Scorched Industries' entire federal footprint derives from a single customer: the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management division, operating through the National Interagency Fire Center. All four awards target wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed project work in USDA Forest Service Regions 5 and 6 (Pacific Southwest and Sierra Nevada regions). The vendor's equipment portfolio includes feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders, dozers, and excavators, supplied as firm fixed-price blanket purchase agreements under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. Awards require vendors to maintain equipment and trained, certified personnel positioned near regional dispatch centers to enable rapid 16-hour daily shift deployment during fire season and incident response operations.

The four contracts consist of two IDCs issued by the National Interagency Fire Center (one with a June 2029 completion date and one with June 2028 completion) and two issued directly by USDA Forest Service Region 5 under VIPR I-BPA mechanisms (one with a June 2029 completion date and one with June 2028 completion). Each carries a $250,000 ceiling and total small business set-aside status. Activity shows one award in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2026, with no sub-award activity across the portfolio. All four IDCs will complete or face recompete between June 2028 and June 2029, representing $1 million in near-term recompete exposure.