Soloy Helicopters LLC

Soloy Helicopters LLC, a Wasilla, Alaska–based limited liability company, operates as a prime contractor providing exclusive-use Type 2 helicopter flight services and on-call aerial transportation to federal agencies across Alaska, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on its two largest indefinite delivery contracts while accepting full-and-open delivery orders from other customer offices within the Department of the Interior.

Soloy Helicopters is a small business contractor with no stated ownership designations beyond its small-business status. The company's capability footprint is tightly focused: fixed-price helicopter flight operations—both exclusive-use wildland firefighting support and on-call aerial transportation for field research, emergency response, mining compliance inspections, glacier monitoring, and wildlife operations—performed across remote and challenging Alaskan terrain from operational bases in Wasilla, Anchorage, Fort Wainwright, Utqiagvik, Talkeetna, and Homer. Representative work includes a $596,075 total small business set-aside delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service (May 2026, through October 2026) for exclusive-use Type 2 helicopter services at Fort Wainwright; a $1.18 million total small business set-aside order from the same customers (May 2025) for wildland firefighting support; and a $311,381 delivery order from the USGS Alaska Science Center (March 2025) for polar bear spring field work helicopter services.

Customer concentration sits almost entirely within the Department of the Interior. The top five customer offices account for 78% of recent awards by count, anchored by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (32 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value), the USGS Alaska Science Center (24 awards, $2.1 million), and the USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (23 awards, $1.4 million). However, potential-value ranking diverges sharply: the Department of the Interior Office of Policy Management and Budget drives $38.2 million across just three awards, the Interior Business Center contributes $25 million across ten awards, and the BLM Idaho Region anchors $24.8 million across fifteen awards—together accounting for 98% of combined potential value. This concentration reflects Soloy's seat on two large Interior IDIQs.

Soloy holds two primary contract vehicles. A $9.8 million single-award IDIQ for exclusive-use Type 2 helicopter services to the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service (May 2022 through April 2027, total small business set-aside, at Fort Wainwright) has generated three recent large delivery orders ($596,075 in May 2026, $1.18 million in May 2025, $1.15 million in May 2024). A $16.47 million multiple-award IDIQ for on-call helicopter flight services (March 2022 through February 2027, total small business set-aside, through the Interior Business Center) spans the full breadth of Soloy's mission set—polar bear research, mining compliance, water resource surveys, glacier monitoring—drawing from the USGS Alaska Science Center, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and cross-agency funding including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Both vehicles employ fixed-price pricing with economic price adjustment and drive the majority of Soloy's recent award volume.

Award activity has declined since 2022. The company received ten awards in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, four in 2025, and two as of mid-2026—a steep downward trajectory. However, the two largest IDIQs run through April and February 2027, respectively, providing a recompete cliff: combined potential value across both vehicles stands at $26.27 million, with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months presenting material recompete opportunity for competitors.

Soloy operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor, with 99% of awards priced as prime work (133 of 134 awards) and only one sub-award identified—a helicopter support sub to ASRC Consulting & Environmental Services on a 2022 National Petroleum Well Alaska legacy well remediation project. Service Contract Inventory data covering federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold shows SCI-reported invoicing of $4.7 million across eight prime records (FY2023 through FY2025). The dataset reflects $1.8 million in FY2023 across 3.0 FTEs, $1.7 million in FY2024 across 2.8 FTEs, and $1.2 million in FY2025 across 2.0 FTEs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates run around $301.98 per hour, with rates ranging from $269.32 at the 10th percentile to $316.78 at the 90th percentile. Soloy does not engage subcontractors on its SCI-reportable contracts; the sub-hours share is zero across prime contracts. The company builds its own delivery teams and does not operate as a feeder to larger prime contractors.