The American Firefighter Company, L.L.C.

The American Firefighter Company, L.L.C., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Spokane, Washington, supplies wildland firefighting equipment, water handling services, ambulance and emergency medical responder services, and specialized incident-support personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company holds ten active indefinite delivery contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, each with ceiling values between $250,000 and $750,000, and carries approximately $8.5 million in combined potential value across seventy recent prime awards.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), which coordinates federal fire suppression resources, accounts for eighteen awards and $5.3 million in combined potential value, while the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) generates thirty-six awards and $2.4 million. Together, these two USDA-connected entities represent 93% of all awards and roughly 90% of total potential value. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region rounds out the top tier with five awards valued at $250 thousand. Award velocity has accelerated sharply: the company received one award in 2022, five in 2023, ten in 2024, fifteen in 2025, and thirty-two through September 2026, reflecting growing reliance on VIPR delivery orders for seasonal wildfire suppression.

The VIPR vehicle architecture dominates the portfolio. The company holds multiple-award IDCs for water handling (Region 6 and East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9); chippers (Regions 5 and 6); ambulance services (Advanced and Basic Life Support for Region 13 nationwide); emergency medical responders (Region 13 nationally and Regions 5–6); mechanic services with service trucks (Regions 5–6); and a legacy water-handling contract for the West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10) expiring June 2025. Individual IDC ceilings range from $250,000 to $750,000, with ordering periods through 2029 and 2030. Task orders against these vehicles carry firm fixed pricing and typically complete within two to four weeks. The top five IDCs by task-order frequency account for thirty-seven orders and $1.9 million in potential value. Representative delivery-order work includes a $306,106 chipper and crew task under the Baker City wildfire operations (July 2026, Region 6), a $159,900 water-handling delivery order for Wenatchee (September 2025, Region 6), and a $93,150 task for ambulance support in the Pacific Northwest (September 2025, Region 6). The company also performs direct purchase-order work with the Forest Service Idaho Region for specialized firefighting equipment—Type 6 fire engines ($55,286 to $59,235) and Type 2 chippers ($51,999)—awarded in June 2025 and due October 2025.

Set-aside posture is uniform: all seventy prime awards are total small business set-asides, with approximately 86% of awards (sixty awards) and 93% of potential value carrying explicit total small business designations. This reflects both VIPR procurement rules, which reserve opportunities for small businesses, and American Firefighter's strategic positioning within the federal wildland-fire contracting ecosystem. The company is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and holds SBA certification as a women-owned small business (WOSB). Capability scope centers on NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) for forty-eight awards, NAICS 621910 (Ambulance Services) for nineteen awards, and minor equipment-rental and automotive-repair categories for the remainder. PSC coding reflects the same emphasis: sixty-seven awards under Fire Suppression/Presuppression (natural resources conservation) and two under Fire Fighting Equipment.

The portfolio shows no recompete cliff in the conventional sense; rather, the VIPR platform operates on five-year ordering periods with annual open seasons. Roughly two-thirds of the company's active IDC ceiling remains unutilized (approximately $5.5 million of $8.5 million potential value), indicating significant headroom for task-order growth before vehicles exhaust. However, the legacy West Zone water-handling IDC (awarded June 2022, ceiling $250,000) expired in June 2025 and has been superseded by regional and East Zone awards of broader scope. American Firefighter has received no sub-award work in the source data; one hundred percent of activity is prime contracting. Geographic performance spans western U.S. Forest Service regions (Regions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6) and the Idaho Bureau of Land Management, with administrative oversight by NIFC in Boise and regional Forest Service offices.