Thompson Transport Company, LLC

Thompson Transport Company, LLC, a small business based in Pocatello, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor providing transportation and water handling services to support wildland firefighting and emergency response operations for the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements, though it also secures delivery orders in open (non-set-aside) competitions. Thompson Transport is structured as a for-profit limited liability company and sole proprietorship.

The vendor's capability footprint centers entirely on specialized logistics for federal fire suppression and all-hazard incident response across western U.S. regions. Representative work includes four delivery orders from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 4–Intermountain Region ranging from $12,800 to $46,000 for water tender transportation and equipment logistics in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, California, and New Mexico; a $22,400 firm fixed price delivery order with USDA Forest Service for transportation services in Salmon, Idaho (July–August 2023); and a $2,000 tender water support purchase order with the Idaho Region (May 2026). Thompson Transport holds three active small-business-set-aside indefinite delivery contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center with ceilings of $500,000 (awarded February 6, 2026, extending through May 30, 2030), $250,000 (awarded May 30, 2025, extending through June 2, 2025), and $250,000 (awarded June 2, 2022, extending through May 30, 2025) for water handling equipment and personnel across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9, with optional interagency use by the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. The top customer — Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center — accounts for 97% of combined potential value across five awards worth $1 million. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station anchors six awards worth $474 thousand, and Forest Service Region 4–Intermountain Region holds eight awards worth $216 thousand. These three customer offices represent 81% of the vendor's award count and nearly all of its dollar value across 31 total awards. Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years (2022: 2 awards; 2023: 1 award; 2024: 2 awards; 2025: 3 awards; 2026: 4 awards to date), with combined potential value of $1.9 million and only $488 thousand obligated to date. The most recent award — a $22,000 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 4–Intermountain Region for wildland firefighting transportation in Jackson, Wyoming (August 7, 2026) — closes August 16, 2026.

Thompson Transport operates exclusively as a prime contractor (31 awards, 100% prime split) with no subcontractor presence in the source. The vendor's service area and capability set are so specialized that it has no meaningful presence outside the wildland firefighting and emergency logistics niche serving federal land management agencies in the western United States. Competitors and teaming partners should assess Thompson Transport only for regional water handling and fire logistics transportation requirements under small-business-set-aside IDCs and BPAs managed by the National Interagency Fire Center or regional Forest Service offices.