Spur Aviation Services, LC

Spur Aviation Services, LC, a veteran-owned, for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Twin Falls, Idaho, delivers aerial firefighting and aviation support services as a prime contractor exclusively to federal land management agencies under total small business set-aside vehicles and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates 100% as a prime (346 awards, no sub work) and competes across the entire set-aside spectrum, with roughly 70% of recent awards designated as total small business set-asides and the remainder full-and-open.

Spur Aviation's capability portfolio centers on specialized wildland fire management aviation — air tanker operations for retardant and water drops, smokejumper transport, air attack supervision (Aerial Tactical Group Supervision, or ATGS), and aerial reconnaissance using fixed-wing aircraft. All work is performed with organic resources; the vendor maintains in-house pilot, crew, and aircraft assets with zero named subcontractor engagement. Representative work includes a $10.9 million delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center issued June 3, 2024, for Interagency Airtanker services supporting the Boise Spur operation through December 2026; a $6.1 million delivery order awarded May 21, 2024, for ATGS services at Boise, Idaho through December 2028; and a $5.2 million delivery order from May 22, 2024, for ATGS services at Grass Valley through December 2028. Smaller orders ranging from $12,000 to $800,000 cover on-call air attack flight services, exclusive-use air attack, and spot-bid aerial support across the western United States.

Customer concentration is acute and geographically coherent. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region account for 255 of 280 awards in the top-customer subset (81% concentration), carrying $615.1 million of the $654.8 million combined potential value across all 346 awards. NIFC dominates by dollar value — $405.5 million across 114 awards — while BLM Idaho Region leads by award count at 141 orders worth $209.6 million. The two rankings track tightly; the vendor operates almost exclusively for these two customer sets. The Department of the Interior's Departmental Offices (Interior Business Center), Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region, and other Interior bureaus round out the active set but collectively represent less than 5% of potential value.

Spur Aviation holds five named parent vehicles anchoring delivery-order activity. The $303.8 million National Interagency Fire Center multiple-award IDIQ for national light fixed-wing services (total small business set-aside, valid through December 31, 2033) is the largest, supporting 46 task orders worth $49.7 million and carrying the multi-year ATGS commitments. A $22 million Bureau of Land Management single-award IDIQ for on-call air attack contract support (total small business set-aside, valid through April 30, 2029) anchors 141 delivery orders with $209.6 million potential value — the vast majority of Spur Aviation's BLM volume. The Interior Business Center's $9.98 million Blanket Purchase Agreement for on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental (no set-aside, valid through December 31, 2027) carries 17 orders. Two legacy IDIQs from NIFC, each around $10–11 million, provided wrap-up authority through May 2024 and February 2024 respectively; their expiration contributes to recompete exposure. Delivery orders across vehicles are priced as fixed-price or fixed-price with economic price adjustment, typical for surge-based fire-season procurement.

Activity trajectory shows decline in award count and obligated dollars despite a large potential-value pipeline. Awards per year dropped from 46 in 2022 to 16 in 2024, rising slightly to 15 in 2025 and 29 in 2026 — a pattern consistent with lumpy, season-driven contracting but below the 2022 baseline. Most recent award is dated September 1, 2026. The recompete cliff shows 42 awards with ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $20.2 million combined potential value — a modest exposure relative to the $654.8 million total, but concentrated in high-value multi-year ATGS orders extending through December 2028 that will require renewal or re-compete. The legacy IDIQs have already expired.

SCI-reported invoicing paints a narrower picture of federal service-contract activity. Spur Aviation reported $29.5 million in invoiced revenue across 80 SCI records (FY2022–FY2025), concentrated in FY2022 ($13.8 million across 15.3 FTEs) and FY2023 ($13.3 million across 2.2 FTEs); FY2024 invoicing dropped to $2.4 million with 2.1 FTEs, and FY2025 carried zero SCI-reported hours. SCI data reflects contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes aircraft and equipment goods procurement; the wider award portfolio is substantially larger. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ran a median of $647.60/hr, with senior labor pricing through $3,290/hr (90th percentile) and junior labor at $375/hr (10th percentile), consistent with aircraft crew and pilot billing rates for federal wildfire operations. The vendor performs zero subcontract work across SCI records.

Spur Aviation operates as a disciplined specialist with deep vertical integration in wildland fire aviation. The vendor does not branch into adjacent DoD, civilian IT, or general government services; it competes exclusively under the Fire and Aviation Management umbrella through IDIQs and delivery orders tied to wildfire season surge. The total small business set-aside posture across most vehicles and award concentration in two agencies (NIFC and BLM) reflect a tight-fit, incumbent-advantage business model built on aircraft availability, crew certification, and established relationships with federal fire-response operations in the western region. Recompete risk clusters around multi-year ATGS orders awarded in 2024 that will face renewal starting in late 2027 and continuing through 2028.