The Lake Group Inc.

The Lake Group Inc. The Lake Group Division, a small business based in Reno, Nevada, provides mobile food service and catering support for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response exclusively to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor. The company operates under a Total Small Business set-aside posture across most of its delivery orders and holds two Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center running through 2029 and 2032.

The Lake Group's entire award footprint is concentrated with a single customer: the National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 37 awards and $63.8 million of the company's combined potential value, representing 91% of total awards and 92% of dollars. The remaining activity is split across Forest Service regional offices in the Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Intermountain, and Southwestern regions. This extreme concentration reflects a narrow, specialized mission — The Lake Group operates as the Forest Service's dedicated mobile catering provider, delivering hot and cold meals, sack lunches, and supplemental food to firefighters and incident management personnel in remote field locations across the western United States. Recent representative work includes a $3.3 million delivery order from Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) issued August 2024, a $491 thousand task order from Region 4 (Intermountain) issued August 2025 with performance in Jackson, Wyoming, and a $65.7 thousand delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center issued May 2026 under the Total Small Business set-aside Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 contract.

The Lake Group holds two parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 12024B20T2518) carrying a multi-year ceiling and anchoring 45 task orders worth $18.5 million in combined potential value, and the newer Forest Service National Mobile Food Service Unit 2025–2029 IDC awarded July 1, 2025, with a $15 million ceiling and a Total Small Business set-aside designation enabling multiple-award task orders up to $7.5 million per order. A third vehicle, IDC AG024BC159015A, carries two task orders valued at $2.2 million combined. Activity peaked in 2022 with 22 awards and has declined substantially — only six awards issued in 2024, three in 2025, and one year-to-date in 2026 — though the company maintains $28.9 million in obligated dollars against its $69.4 million combined potential value, yielding a 42% obligation ratio. No recompete cliff analysis is provided in the source, but the company faces recompete exposure as earlier awards reach ultimate completion dates of December 31, 2024 and beyond. The Lake Group operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint; it holds no positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or interagency vehicles outside the Forest Service ecosystem, positioning it as a specialized, high-availability catering provider rather than a broader federal services vendor.