Sei Industries LTD

Sei Industries LTD, a Canadian manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, delivers specialized aerial firefighting equipment—principally BAMBI Buckets (collapsible water-delivery buckets suspended from helicopters), aerial ignition devices, and related parts and accessories—as a prime contractor to federal agencies on a full-and-open basis, with no set-aside posture. The company operates as a for-profit corporate entity and has held federal contracting status since June 2001. Sei Industries manufactures engineered fabric solutions and serves as the exclusive supplier of BAMBI Bucket systems and components to the U.S. military and federal civilian fire agencies.

The vendor's customer base spans 94 distinct federal agencies, but customer concentration by award count and by dollar value diverges sharply. By award count, the top five customers account for 35% of recent awards: the Department of the Army (82 awards, $2.9 million combined potential value), the United States Marine Corps (18 awards, $1 million combined potential value), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region (13 awards, $201 thousand combined potential value), the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement (12 awards, $457 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region (11 awards, $311 thousand combined potential value). By potential value, however, the ranking shifts dramatically: GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors 67% of combined potential value with just five awards worth $18.5 million, reflecting task orders under the vendor's position on the Federal Supply Schedule GS07F5080A (133 task orders, $3.8 million combined potential value) and the Multiple Award Schedule (90 task orders, $6.5 million combined potential value). The vendor also holds positions on Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A619D6817 (8 task orders, $219 thousand combined potential value) and Blanket Purchase Agreement SPE50009A0569 (7 task orders, $61 thousand combined potential value).

Recent representative work includes a $263,351.89 firm fixed-price purchase order from Air Forces Europe and Africa in December 2025 for 57 BAMBI Bucket MAX 4453 units designed for HH-60W helicopters, a $218,879.39 procurement from the Nevada National Guard in September 2025 for a 2000-gallon BAMBI Bucket Max with 60-foot longline, a $106,271.66 Army purchase order in April 2026 for BAMBI Bucket parts, and a $149,500 firm fixed-price order from the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement in August 2022 for fuel bladders. Award activity has averaged 3.8 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with 388 total prime awards on record since 1992 carrying a combined potential value of $35.7 million and $18.7 million in obligated dollars. The vendor's capability portfolio, grounded in PSC codes for fire fighting equipment (157 awards), miscellaneous fire control equipment (56 awards), and miscellaneous aircraft accessories (30 awards), is dominated by aerial firefighting platform equipment and consumables for wildfire suppression, prescribed-burn operations, and helicopter-based hazmat response. Sei Industries operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source reports zero subcontract positions.