Sycan Corp

Sycan Corp, doing business as Sinton Helicopters, operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Paso Robles, California, delivering Type III helicopter services for wildland fire suppression, aerial firefighting, natural resource management, search-and-rescue, and prescribed burn operations exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) to federal land-management agencies. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside posture, though it holds one total small business set-aside vehicle with the Department of the Interior.

Sycan's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the National Interagency Fire Center, which represents 47 awards (46% of all prime awards) and $97.8 million in combined potential value — the single largest customer by far. The Department of the Interior accounts for the second-largest dollar share across multiple sub-offices: the Interior Business Center and Office of Policy Management and Budget together hold $96.7 million in combined potential value, primarily through two large IDIQs ($49.5 million and $40 million ceilings); the National Park Service Pacific West Region and Bureau of Indian Affairs Northwest Region contribute 18 and 9 awards respectively. Across the top five customer offices, the portfolio covers 73% of all awards and includes representation from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. The dollar concentration is acute: the top two customers (National Interagency Fire Center and Interior Business Center) anchor 98% of combined potential value.

Sycan holds two primary parent vehicles. The Type 3 Helicopter Support Services 2023-2032 IDIQ, a $40 million multiple-award contract with the National Interagency Fire Center (award date April 12, 2023, performance through December 31, 2032), has generated 16 task orders to date with $8.6 million in combined potential value. The On-Call Type III Helicopter Flight Services 2022-2027 IDIQ, a $49.5 million total small business multiple-award vehicle with the Department of the Interior (award date May 1, 2022, performance through April 30, 2027), carries 7 task orders under the Interior Business Center line and has seeded delivery orders from the National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs for snow telemetry missions, search and rescue, and natural resource restoration at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and in Montana and Minnesota.

Recent representative contracts include three 2026 delivery orders under the Type 3 Helicopter Support Services IDIQ: a $156,469 order issued August 20, 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center for helicopter support services in Paso Robles (ultimate completion September 16, 2026); a $170,395 order issued July 16, 2026 for fire-suppression operations with completion August 6, 2026; and a $42,436 order issued July 11, 2026. Larger orders from 2024 include a $3.4 million delivery order to the National Interagency Fire Center for Type III helicopter operations at Independence, California (completion December 31, 2028) and a $3.3 million order for McCall, Idaho services (completion December 31, 2028). A $727,307 delivery order from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (award February 23, 2023) covered exclusive-use Type III helicopters based in Billings, Montana and Bemidji, Minnesota from February through September 2023. A $381,679 snow telemetry mission order from the Department of the Interior West Region (award May 15, 2026, completion May 14, 2027) demonstrates the vendor's scope across mission types.

Activity declined sharply after 2023: the vendor recorded 11 awards in 2022, 26 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 — a trend driven by the transition from multiple legacy single-award IDCs (each $1.5 million to $3.5 million ceilings, expiring 2022–2023) to fewer but larger multi-award IDIQs. Twelve awards with combined potential value of $2 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore constitute recompete exposure. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, Sycan invoiced $6.1 million in prime work over FY2022–FY2025 ($2.3 million in FY2022, $2.8 million in FY2023, $1 million in FY2024), with FTE deployment declining from 4.9 FTEs in FY2022 to 1.7 FTEs in FY2024 to 0 FTEs in FY2025 — a reflection of the shift from labor-intensive legacy contracts to task-order work under standing IDIQs where invoicing may be captured outside the SCI dataset or may flow through different reporting mechanisms. On SCI-captured contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $295/hr, with 10th-percentile labor priced near $189/hr and 90th-percentile senior labor reaching $596/hr. Sycan performs all work with its own crews; the vendor reports zero subcontractor hours across SCI prime contracts and no subcontractor teaming on federal awards.

Helicopter charter and utility operations