Smokeys Helping Hand, Llc.

Smokeys Helping Hand, LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Denver, Colorado, delivers forestry and wildland fire management services to the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor exclusively, holding nine single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts valued at a combined $300 million across U.S. Forest Service regions and specialized land-management vehicles. The company operates as a Limited Liability Company across primarily NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on smaller tactical orders and full-and-open on larger regional stewardship contracts.

Smokeys Helping Hand's service portfolio is concrete and mission-driven: hand thinning with chainsaws, pinyon and juniper tree removal, hazard fuels reduction through lop-and-scatter operations, prescribed fire preparation, tamarisk and invasive species removal, and ecosystem restoration across western public lands. Representative recent work includes a $192,137 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management's Idaho Region for Douglas Hill vegetation management in Colorado (awarded July 2026, total small business set-aside, hand-thinning across 568 base acres through December 2026); a $264,125 BPA call from the National Park Service for hazardous fuels reduction near Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in California (awarded May 2026, total small business set-aside, completion December 2026); and a $284,508 lop-and-scatter vegetation management call for Buck Pasture Cliffrose in Arizona (awarded January 2025, total small business set-aside, completion February 2026). These tactical orders flow from larger indefinite delivery vehicles held by the vendor.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven entirely by Forest Service regional stewardship contracts. The top five agencies by potential value account for 99 percent of the combined total: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region anchors the portfolio with three awards valued at $150 million combined (predominantly the R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management IDIQ awarded April 2026 at $49.999 million ceiling); Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest, R2-Rocky Mountain, R6-Pacific Northwest regions, and the Washington Office Acquisitions each hold single $50 million stewardship BPAs. By award count, the BLM Idaho Region leads with six smaller task orders ($626 thousand combined), followed by Forest Service R3, R5, BLM Nevada Region, and National Park Service (each three awards). The divergence reflects Smokeys Helping Hand's dual posture: large regional stewardship vehicles with the Forest Service (high dollar, low frequency) and numerous small to mid-sized tactical calls under the Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA across BLM, NPS, and Fish and Wildlife Service.

The vendor holds nine prime indefinite delivery vehicles: five $50 million Forest Service stewardship BPAs (Intermountain Region, Region 4, awarded May 2023; Southwest Stewardship, Region 3, awarded December 2022; Pacific Southwest Stewardship, Region 5, awarded October 2022; Pacific Northwest Stewardship, Region 6, awarded March 2025; Rocky Mountain Restoration Project, Region 2, awarded March 2025); one $49.999 million R3 Fuels and Vegetation Management IDIQ (awarded April 2026, single-award MAS under total small business set-aside, five-year performance through April 2031); one multiple-award Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (awarded May 2024, $50 million ceiling, continuing through March 2033, serving as parent vehicle for ten tactical task orders worth $1.5 million combined); and two Vehicle with Driver Indefinite Delivery Contracts with Forest Service Region 3 and National Interagency Fire Center ($250,000 each, awarded April 2023 and February 2026, supporting fire suppression and all-hazard response). Ten task orders totaling $1.5 million have been issued against the LMIR BPA; performance is concentrated in burn unit preparation, hand piling, and fuel break work across Montana, Idaho, California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, all scheduled for completion by December 2026.

Activity has accelerated sharply: two awards in 2022, four in 2023, four in 2024, twelve in 2025, and eight to date in 2026 (14 months). The acceleration reflects two distinct drivers—award of five Forest Service regional stewardship BPAs between December 2022 and March 2025 (latent demand), and subsequent tasking from BLM, NPS, and Fish and Wildlife Service against the LMIR BPA and direct solicitations. Eight awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1 million, posing negligible recompete risk; the Forest Service regional stewardship BPAs (ceilings $50 million each, performance extending through 2032–2033) represent the material recompete horizon. The vendor operates entirely as prime—zero subcontract exposure in the source data—with no named teaming relationships or sub engagements.

Smokeys Helping Hand competes across the full federal land-management ecosystem: BLM, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and Forest Service across twelve western states plus California. The vendor's set-aside posture is bifurcated: nearly all BPA calls under LMIR and direct BLM/NPS procurement carry total small business set-aside designations; the five Forest Service regional stewardship BPAs and the R3 IDIQ awarded under full-and-open or multiple-award structures with no set-aside applied, suggesting the vendor won these vehicles on technical merit and cost against open competition.