Smokeys Helping Hand, Llc.

Smokeys Helping Hand, LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Denver, Colorado, delivers forestry and wildland fire management services as a prime contractor exclusively to federal land-management agencies, operating across nine regional indefinite delivery vehicles anchored by five $50 million Forest Service stewardship blanket purchase agreements. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides; nearly all task order work carries set-aside designation, though several of the larger parent IDVs (particularly the Pacific Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Intermountain stewardship BPAs) were awarded without set-aside restrictions.

Smokeys Helping Hand's service portfolio centers on hand thinning, hazard fuels reduction, pinyon and juniper tree removal, lop-and-scatter operations, prescribed fire preparation, invasive species removal, and ecosystem restoration across western public lands. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract exposure. Representative work includes a $1.24 million BPA call from the Forest Service for fuels reduction near La Grande, Oregon (awarded September 2026), a $816,237 delivery order from Forest Service Region 3 for mechanical treatment across 3,949 acres near Scottsdale, Arizona (September 2026), and a $284,508 lop-and-scatter vegetation management call in Arizona for the Department of Interior (January 2025). Activity has accelerated sharply — from two awards in 2022 to twenty-one in 2026 — reflecting both newly awarded parent vehicles and increased tasking volume across existing instruments.

Customer concentration runs through Forest Service regional stewardship vehicles. The top five customers by potential value account for 79% of combined value, led by Forest Service Region 3 (six awards, $151.1 million combined potential value) and Region 5 (four awards, $50.3 million). By award count, the top customers reflect smaller, more frequent task orders: Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (nine awards, $969 thousand), Forest Service Region 3 (six awards, $151.1 million), and Forest Service Region 5 (four awards, $50.3 million). This divergence signals that while Forest Service regional vehicles dominate dollar value, BLM's Idaho Region issues numerous smaller purchase orders and BPA calls for hand-thinning and fuels-reduction work.

Smokeys Helping Hand sits on nine indefinite delivery vehicles spanning Forest Service Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; Bureau of Land Management; National Park Service; and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vehicles include five $50 million single-award Forest Service stewardship BPAs (Southwest Stewardship, Pacific Southwest Stewardship, Intermountain Stewardship, Rocky Mountain Restoration Project, and Pacific Northwest Stewardship); the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (multiple-award, shared with other contractors); a $49.5 million Fish and Wildlife Service National Fuels Reduction BPA (multiple-award); a $40 million Forestry Stewardship IDIQ with Forest Service Oregon-Washington Region; a $49.999 million R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management IDIQ (single-award); and two $250 thousand vehicle-with-driver IDICs supporting fire suppression across Region 3. The Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA is the highest-activity parent, supporting sixteen task orders valued at $3.6 million combined potential value. Over fifty percent of the vendor's $446.1 million combined potential value sits in these nine parent vehicles; the remaining value traces to twenty-five individual task orders and purchase orders, predominantly under total small business set-aside.

Of the vendor's combined potential value, eighteen distinct federal agencies have issued awards, though six agencies account for 60% of award count. Twelve awards (combined potential value $2.8 million) face completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's primary NAICS coding is Support Activities for Forestry (115310), with natural resources conservation and tree thinning as dominant PSC categories. Core work occurs across western public lands — Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington — with place of performance varying by project.