Theodore E Schwartz

Theodore E. Schwartz is a sole proprietorship based in Albuquerque, New Mexico that provides wildland fire suppression services to the federal government. Specifically, Schwartz supplies fallers and faller modules to support firefighting efforts undertaken by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service.

Schwartz has received delivery orders from the Forest Service to provide faller services, issued against unspecified governmentwide acquisition contracts. This includes a $56,100 firm fixed price order to furnish Class A fallers, with a completion date of October 2021. Another $16,478 order was for advanced fallers for the North Complex fire in California in 2020. No set-aside provisions were applied to these awards.

The company also holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts with the Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management division to supply fallers over several year periods. One such vehicle is a 5-year IDC awarded in 2023 with a ceiling of $250,000, set aside for small businesses. It covers Regions 5 and 6 through 2028. Another IDC with the same terms was competitively awarded in 2020 for the Pacific Southwest Region. Under this, the Forest Service issued the $56,100 delivery order to Schwartz mentioned previously. The agency utilizes such IDC vehicles and associated task orders to contract for supplemental fire suppression personnel like fallers during high severity fire seasons.