Southwestern Wildfire Suppression Co LLC

Southwestern Wildfire Suppression Co LLC, doing business as Southwestern Wildfire, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Roswell, New Mexico, that provides wildfire suppression services and equipment — water tenders, water handling, heavy equipment including dozers and excavators, and operational support — exclusively as a prime contractor to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Department of the Interior agencies. The vendor competes entirely under Total Small Business set-asides on the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and holds four active Indefinite Delivery Contracts, each valued at $250,000, awarded between May 2025 and February 2026 to deliver water handling and heavy equipment services across USFS Regions 3 and 8.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Forest Service. The top two customers — the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center and the Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region — account for 100% of Southwestern Wildfire's recent awards by count and combined potential value. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the largest dollar share at $1.6 million across nine awards, primarily the four IDCs valued at $250,000 each, supplemented by multiple task orders issued against those vehicles. The R3-Southwestern Region adds $774 thousand across twelve awards, with the Forest Service corporate entity contributing $110 thousand in four additional awards. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management together represent $65 thousand in two awards — a $59,113 Total Small Business purchase order for fire break services at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge (May 2023) and a $6 thousand delivery order.

Work is geographically concentrated in the Southwest, with place of performance centered on New Mexico and subordinate Forest Service regions including California. Recent representative delivery orders include a $64,000 Total Small Business order for Alamogordo, New Mexico (May 2026), a $24,000 order for Silver City, New Mexico (June 2026), and a $57,657 order for the Southwestern Region (May 2024). The vendor's three principal IDC vehicles all operate under the VIPR Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement mechanism: Indefinite Delivery Contract 12837119T7060 (the legacy West Zone water handling contract covering Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10, awarded June 2022 and expiring May 2025) has generated ten task orders worth $672 thousand, while the two newer Regions 3 and 8 contracts — 1202SB22T8104 (February 2026, water handling) and 1202SB25T7296 (April 2025, heavy equipment) — have generated nine task orders combined worth $288 thousand. Activity has remained modest and variable: two to five awards per year since 2022, with $2.5 million in combined potential value across twenty-seven prime awards and $1 million in obligated dollars (41% realization). No subcontract activity appears in the source data.

The Company specializes in forestry firefighting, small scale prescribed burning (piles), fire rehab, and mechanical tree thinning services and maintains all top of the line equipment comparable to agency owned equipment.