Spur Aviation Services, LC

Spur Aviation Services, LC, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Twin Falls, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering aerial firefighting and aviation support services to federal land management agencies under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 481212 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation) and 481213 (Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation), with a secondary PSC concentration in forest-range fire suppression and presuppression work. Spur Aviation competes predominantly in full-and-open competition on individual delivery orders but holds three of its six parent vehicles under total small business set-aside designations, anchoring most of its prime footprint to those reserved IDIQs and BPAs.

Spur Aviation's federal work centers on wildland fire management operations across the western United States, delivering air tanker operations for retardant and water drops, smokejumper transport, air attack supervision and aerial reconnaissance, and exclusive-use fixed-wing aircraft for Aerial Tactical Group Supervision (ATGS) services. Representative work includes a $9.34 million fixed-price delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center, awarded June 3, 2024, for aircraft and crew to perform Interagency Airtanker services supporting the Boise Spur operation through December 31, 2026; a $1.218 million delivery order from the Department of the Interior Idaho Region, awarded May 29, 2026, for air attack aviation fire services at Salt Lake City, Utah with performance through May 31, 2027; and a $1.057 million delivery order from the Idaho Region for on-call air attack flight services at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, awarded July 8, 2026.

Customer concentration is sharply bimodal. The top two agencies account for 81% of recent awards by count: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center (110 awards, $401.5 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (141 awards, $207 million combined potential value). However, the potential-value ranking reverses the award-count picture — NIFC dominates dollars ($401.5 million across 110 orders) while BLM leads in transaction volume (141 awards across a lower median order size). The Department of the Interior Departmental Offices (Interior Business Center), Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region round out the top tier.

Spur Aviation holds five major parent vehicles anchoring its delivery-order activity. The $303.8 million National Interagency Fire Center multiple-award IDIQ for national light fixed-wing services (valid through December 31, 2033, total small business set-aside, awarded January 1, 2024) carries 42 task orders worth $45.6 million in combined potential value and represents the largest single vehicle by ceiling and long-term strategic value. The $22 million Bureau of Land Management single-award IDIQ for on-call air attack contract support (valid through April 30, 2029, total small business set-aside, awarded March 1, 2024) anchors place-of-performance coverage across Ontario, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Twin Falls, Idaho. The $22 million Department of the Interior single-award IDIQ for on-call air attack flight services (valid through April 30, 2028, total small business set-aside, awarded May 1, 2023) spans multiple Interior bureaus. The $9.98 million Interior Business Center Blanket Purchase Agreement for on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental (valid through December 31, 2027, no set-aside, awarded January 1, 2023) and the $6.5 million Basic Ordering Agreement AG024BB165405 (56 task orders) round out the active portfolio. Earlier legacy contracts with ceilings of $11 million and $10 million (both expiring or expired by May 2024) supported exclusive-use air-attack light fixed-wing operations in Boise and Jeffco, Colorado through 2022–2024.

Recent activity shows decline from a 2022 peak. Awards per year dropped from 46 in 2022 to 16 in 2024 and recovered modestly to 25 in 2026, indicating contract saturation on the NIFC and BLM vehicles and reliance on surge-driven task-order deployment during wildfire season. Forty awards (combined potential value $16.9 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent near-term recompete exposure, concentrated in seasonal ATGS surge contracts and smaller NIFC delivery orders peaking in late calendar year.

SCI-reportable federal service contract activity (contracts above $150,000 threshold) shows Spur Aviation invoiced $29.5 million across FY2022–FY2024: $13.8 million in FY2022 (15.3 FTEs), $13.3 million in FY2023 (2.2 FTEs), and $2.4 million in FY2024 (2.1 FTEs). The FTE collapse from 2022 to 2023 and subsequent flatline through 2024 suggests SCI-captured contracts do not reflect the full scope of delivery-order activity — most of Spur's federal work likely falls below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or falls outside the service-contract definition. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of $375.13 per hour to a median of $647.60 per hour, with senior-level labor pricing through $3,290 per hour, reflecting blended ATGS crew, pilot, and aircraft operations costs. Spur Aviation performs all SCI-reportable work with no named subcontractor engagement (0% sub-hours share), signaling a fully captive delivery model built on in-house pilot, crew, and aircraft assets.