Texas Fire Resources

Texas Fire Resources, a Granbury, Texas-based sole proprietorship, supplies Type 5 and 6 wildland fire engines, water tenders, prescribed fire crews, and tactical equipment to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under small business set-asides, operating exclusively without subcontract exposure across 122 recent federal awards with combined potential value of $7 million.

The vendor operates under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on delivery orders and task orders for wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire management, and all-hazard incident response. The company's award portfolio spans the past two decades, with tracked activity showing 11 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 2 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 7 in 2026 to date. Recent representative work includes an $81,250 delivery order from Forest Service Region 8 Southern Region issued August 18, 2026, for wildland fire suppression and prescribed fire management resources at Lufkin, Texas, completing September 11, 2026; a $30,542 delivery order from the Forest Service issued August 26, 2026, for fire suppression resources at College Station, Texas, completing September 3, 2026; and a $50,000 delivery order under the prescribed fire support services IDIQ from September 4, 2025, with performance extended to March 31, 2029, due to government shutdown, staffing shortage, and weather delays.

Customer concentration sits almost entirely within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Forest Service Region 8 Southern Region accounts for 64 awards totaling $4.2 million in combined potential value (60% of the total portfolio), while the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds 9 awards worth $1.3 million, Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern Region holds 7 awards totaling $101 thousand, and Forest Service headquarters or unspecified regions hold 6 awards worth $327 thousand. The top four customers represent 70% of all awards and 84% of combined potential value; competition is effectively single-customer-dependent.

Texas Fire Resources holds four active indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its delivery-order flow. The largest is a $1 million single-award IDC for prescribed fire support services on National Forests and Grasslands in Texas, awarded July 1, 2024, by Forest Service Region 8, extending through March 31, 2027, under which two task orders have been issued totaling $100,000 in ceiling value as of September 2025. The vendor also holds two multiple-award IDCs each valued at $250,000 for water handling services and equipment across Forest Service Regions 3 and 8, both awarded February 6, 2026, through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) program and extending to May 6, 2030. An earlier $250,000 multiple-award water-handling IDC awarded June 2, 2022, expired May 30, 2025, but generated 11 task orders worth $497 thousand. Work under these vehicles is firm fixed price, based on daily shift rates of up to 16 hours, and structured to enable rapid emergency procurement of firefighting personnel and equipment across designated regions.

The vendor's award portfolio shows uneven recompete exposure. The earliest awards in the source date to 2003, but activity volatility — from 11 awards in 2022 to only 2 in 2024 before rising to 5 in 2025 and 7 through August 2026 — signals inconsistent task-order volume or extended performance periods on prior orders. The $1 million prescribed fire IDIQ running through March 31, 2027, and the two $250,000 water-handling IDCs running through May 2030 represent the majority of near-term vehicle ceilings; however, few task orders have been drawn against the 2026 IDCs, meaning substantial available capacity remains uncalled. Texas Fire Resources' entire business footprint is Forest Service-dependent, with no diversification across other federal agencies or contract vehicles outside the VIPR framework.

Provide fire suppression equipment and qualified fire crews for wildfire response as well as prescribed fire and fuels reduction projects.