Temsco Helicopters Inc.

Temsco Helicopters Inc., a division of Southeast Stevedoring Corp. based in Ketchikan, Alaska, operates as a specialized rotary-wing aviation services provider delivering exclusive-use and on-call helicopter flight services to federal agencies across Alaska's remote terrain as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open designations, though several indefinite delivery contracts carry total small business set-asides; recent activity shows mixed set-aside and unrestricted award patterns across the same customer agencies.

Temsco's federal footprint centers on helicopter transportation, wildland firefighting, search and rescue, aerial surveys, stream gage maintenance, infrastructure support, and personnel transport for natural resource management and emergency response missions. Concrete recent examples include a $1.28 million delivery order from the National Park Service Alaska Region (awarded April 20, 2026) for exclusive use fire management and search and rescue missions in Fairbanks through October 2026; a $719,040 delivery order from the Bureau of Land Management (awarded April 27, 2026) for Type III helicopter fire flight services supporting the Alaska Fire Service at Fort Wainwright through October 2026; and a $593,500 delivery order from the Department of the Interior Alaska Region (awarded May 25, 2026) for exclusive use Type III non-fire flight services in Anchorage through July 2026. The vendor maintains a fleet of turbine and reciprocating engine helicopters from multiple Alaska bases and executes hundreds of delivery orders annually, ranging from discrete missions valued at several thousand dollars to extended seasonal operations exceeding $1.6 million.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward the Department of the Interior. The top five funding agencies account for 93% of combined potential value: the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (58 awards, $99.3 million potential value), Interior Business Center (27 awards, $92.8 million), the National Park Service Alaska Region (293 awards, $67.3 million), the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (44 awards, $41.8 million), and the Department of Agriculture's National Interagency Fire Center (49 awards, $33.4 million). The rankings show a meaningful divergence—NPS leads by award count (293 awards) but ranks third in potential value ($67.3 million), whereas BLM Idaho Region has fewer awards (58) but anchors the portfolio with $99.3 million in potential value, reflecting the dollar magnitude of fire support contracts.

Temsco holds seven active indefinite delivery contracts totaling approximately $60 million in aggregate ceiling value through February 2030. The National Park Service Alaska Region awarded an $8 million single-award IDC (March 1, 2025, through February 28, 2030) for exclusive use search, rescue, and fire suppression services at Denali National Park. The Bureau of Land Management awarded a $10.75 million single-award IDC (May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2029) for Type II helicopter fire flight services at Fort Wainwright. A $7.5 million BLM single-award IDC (April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2029) provides exclusive use Type III helicopter services under a total small business set-aside for the Upper Yukon Fire Zone. The Department of the Interior Alaska Region holds an $8.7 million single-award IDC (May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028) for Type II helicopter fire services in the Tanana area. The National Park Service issued a $12.5 million single-award IDC (May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2027, total small business set-aside) for exclusive use fire, search and rescue, and natural resource missions across multiple Alaska parks including Denali, Wrangell-St. Elias, and Gates of the Arctic. The Department of the Interior Alaska Region awarded a $6.2 million single-award IDC (March 30, 2023, through April 30, 2027, total small business set-aside) for exclusive use Type III non-fire helicopter services supporting cadastral surveys. The Interior Business Center manages a $16.47 million multiple-award IDC (March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2027, total small business set-aside) providing on-call helicopter services to multiple federal agencies. Task order activity against these vehicles demonstrates consistent utilization, with delivery orders ranging from several thousand dollars to over $1.6 million.

Activity has remained steady year over year—46 awards in 2022, 49 in 2023, 53 in 2024, 42 in 2025, and 19 as of mid-2026 (partial year). The vendor faces a $5.4 million recompete exposure from 20 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months. Across the broader portfolio of 931 awards since 1987, combined potential value stands at $358.9 million with $129.9 million obligated (36% realization rate), reflecting the typical structure of indefinite delivery vehicles where ceiling values far exceed near-term spending.

SCI-reported federal service contract activity shows revenue growth and modest workforce expansion. Temsco reported $14.9 million in SCI-captured invoicing across three fiscal years: $2.1 million in FY2022 (4.9 FTEs), $5 million in FY2023 (20.4 FTEs), and $7.8 million in FY2024 (30.0 FTEs). On SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor delivered all work with its own staff—zero average sub-hours share. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $72.40/hr to a median of $112.80/hr and a 90th percentile of $238.95/hr, reflecting labor cost variation across pilot, crew, and maintenance roles. SCI captures only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes helicopter charter revenues, goods, and micro-purchases; the $14.9 million figure is a strict subset of Temsco's actual federal revenue, which includes hundreds of small delivery orders for rotary-wing transportation that fall below SCI thresholds.

Temsco operates as a captive division of Southeast Stevedoring Corp., a parent entity that itself holds federal contracts. The vendor competes as a prime contractor on its own UEI across a geographically concentrated footprint—all primary work is based in or serves Alaska's remote regions—and does not engage subcontractors on its prime work. The company's competitive posture reflects a specialized operational niche: exclusive-use and on-call helicopter services for federal land management and emergency response in terrain where rotary-wing support is mission-critical infrastructure rather than a discretionary procurement. Temsco's dominance in NPS and BLM Alaska aviation contracts, combined with established indefinite delivery relationships across multiple Interior agencies and the Department of Agriculture, positions it as a primary federal aviation support provider for wildland firefighting, search and rescue, and natural resource management operations throughout Alaska.