Smoke Hound LLC

Smoke Hound LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Libby, Montana, provides wildland firefighting support services and equipment to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor across multiple regions, with 100% of recent awards structured as total small business set-asides or full-and-open delivery orders against Indefinite Delivery Contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements.

Smoke Hound operates as a limited liability partnership and competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-aside vehicles, with recent activity split between set-aside delivery orders placed by Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) and full-and-open competitive awards issued through the National Interagency Fire Center's Virtual Incident Procurement system. The company's service portfolio centers on smoke detection, fire suppression equipment, water handling for fire suppression, chipper services, miscellaneous heavy equipment (feller bunchers, mulchers, road graders, skidders), and specialized vehicle procurement in support of regional fire management, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed project work. Representative prime work includes a $74,832 delivery order issued August 12, 2026 by Forest Service Region 1 for wildland firefighting support services in Dillon, Montana; a $99,426 delivery order issued July 21, 2026 by Region 9 (Eastern Region) for fire suppression support in Duluth, Minnesota; and a $88,282 delivery order issued July 21, 2024 by Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) for smoke detection and firefighting equipment in Oregon.

Customer concentration is extreme. The top customer, Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 1–Northern Region, accounts for 25 awards and $51.5 million in combined potential value (93% of all dollars across the footprint). The National Interagency Fire Center, also within USDA Forest Service, anchors 19 awards valued at $2.7 million. These two customers account for nearly all recent activity; the next tier of customers (Regions 2, 6, 9) represent rounding. Smoke Hound serves nine distinct Forest Service regional offices and the Interagency Fire Center but has zero exposure to non-Forest Service federal customers.

Smoke Hound holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center or Forest Service Region 1 covering water handling, chippers, and miscellaneous heavy equipment across East Zone regions (1, 2, 4, and 9) for fire suppression and all-hazard response. These vehicles run through 2030 with ceiling values of $500,000 (multiple-award water handling contract awarded February 6, 2026), $500,000 (multiple-award chipper contract awarded February 6, 2026), $500,000 (multiple-award heavy equipment contract awarded February 6, 2026), $250,000 (multiple-award water handling contract awarded May 30, 2025), and $250,000 (multiple-award heavy equipment contract awarded April 21, 2025). Smoke Hound also holds the $50 million single-award Northern Rockies Stewardship BPA with Forest Service Region 1, running through October 2032, which supports vegetation treatments, infrastructure installation, and land stewardship activities across Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count are the older $250,000 water handling and chipper IDCs, which together drove 18 and 8 task orders respectively but carry smaller individual order values ($535,000 and $139,000 combined). Smoke Hound competes exclusively on Forest Service vehicles; it holds no GSA Schedules, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs outside fire and land management.

Activity trajectory shows volatility with no sustained growth signal. Awards per year ran 7 (2022), 9 (2023), 7 (2024), 4 (2025), and 11 (2026 year-to-date). The 56 total awards carry $54.8 million in combined potential value, but only $1.5 million (3%) is obligated, a signature marker of IDC and BPA vehicles where most dollars remain unexercised ceiling. The company faces no material recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months; its core $50 million BPA runs through October 2032, and the National Interagency Fire Center contracts run through 2029–2030. Smoke Hound operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Work is performed across dispersed locations within Forest Service regions, including Eureka and Dalton Gardens, Idaho; Dillon, Montana; Duluth, Minnesota; Delta and Durango, Colorado; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company's market position is narrowly specialized: it is dependent on a single customer (USDA Forest Service) across multiple regions but lacks diversification into federal civilian IT, defense, or non-fire/land-management mission areas.

Type 6 Wildland Engine