Solomon Fire Equipment, LLC

Solomon Fire Equipment, LLC, a woman-owned, Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small business based in Havre, Montana, supplies specialized wildland fire equipment, vehicles, and water handling resources to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and delivery orders across western regions.

The company's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Forest Service. The top five customer entities account for 83% of award count and 93% of combined potential value, dominated by the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (23 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service R1-Northern Region (25 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value). The Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas represents a secondary customer with 7 awards totaling $46 thousand. Solomon Fire Equipment holds no subcontract relationships and operates exclusively as a prime contractor. Recent delivery orders exemplify the commodity focus: a $33,600 delivery order to R1-Northern Region on August 12, 2026, an $87,000 delivery order to R2-Rocky Mountain Region on July 5, 2026 for fire equipment and wildland fire suppression resources, and a $58,500 delivery order to R1-Northern Region on August 26, 2025 for fire suppression equipment and services.

Solomon Fire Equipment sits on three primary parent vehicles. The Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T7562 carries 20 task orders valued at $662 thousand combined potential, while Indefinite Delivery Contract 12034319T7139 carries 22 task orders at $446 thousand combined potential. The Blanket Purchase Agreement AG0343B167140 accounts for 6 task orders totaling $284 thousand. Two higher-value IDCs represent set-aside vehicles: a $500,000 multiple-award small business set-aside IDC awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling equipment and services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 through May 30, 2030, and a $250,000 multiple-award small business set-aside IDC awarded May 30, 2025, also for water handling across the same regions. An earlier $250,000 small business set-aside IDC expired May 30, 2025.

Award activity has been episodic rather than trending. The vendor received 6 awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, 11 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 through August. The portfolio totals 78 prime awards worth $3.3 million in combined potential value, with $1.9 million obligated. Seventy-one awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 561730), and 69 fall under the Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC, reflecting the vendor's laser focus on Forest Service fire equipment provisioning. No recompete cliff data is present in the source, but the IDVs with fixed expiration dates (May 30, 2030, for the February 2026 award; May 30, 2025, for the May 2025 award) frame the renewal windows.

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