Tread Lightly Fire, LLC

Tread Lightly Fire, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Prineville, Oregon, provides wildland fire suppression and prevention services and deploys heavy equipment including dozers and excavators across the Pacific Northwest as a prime contractor under federal deliveryorder and IDIQ vehicles. The company operates as a sole proprietorship and competes exclusively under small business set-asides on its IDIQ holdings, though individual delivery orders under those vehicles carry mixed set-aside designations.

Tread Lightly Fire's customer concentration is heavily geographic and regional. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) accounts for 23 awards totaling $736 thousand combined potential value — 70% of the vendor's known footprint by count. The Department of Agriculture's Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center holds four IDIQ and delivery-order awards valued at $1 million combined, anchoring the dollar ranking despite fewer placements. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region placed one award for $24 thousand. The top three customers account for 85% of awards and 99% of combined potential value, reflecting a narrow agency base concentrated in USDA wildland fire programs.

Tread Lightly Fire holds two primary vehicle positions: a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (12569R23T7989) with the National Interagency Fire Center for heavy equipment in West Zone Regions 5 and 6 with a $250 thousand ceiling through June 2028 (set aside for total small business, extended through a second $500 thousand IDC awarded in February 2026); and five blanket purchase agreements against USDA Forest Service R6, with a combined $171 thousand across two BPA vehicles. Seven task orders executed under the primary VIPR I-BPA between August 2023 and September 2025 ranged from $11 thousand to $40.25 thousand per order, with performance locations concentrated in Oregon (Prineville, Bend, Springfield, Lakeview, and Sandy).

Recent representative work includes a $40.25 thousand firm fixed-price delivery order from USDA Forest Service R6 in September 2024 for wildland fire services and heavy equipment deployment in the Prineville area; a $36.34 thousand September 2024 delivery order from the same agency for fire suppression and prevention in Bend, Oregon; and two August 2026 delivery orders totaling $52.8 thousand from Forest Service R6 for wildland fire suppression and personnel deployment in Sandy, Oregon, both set aside for total small business. Activity has remained consistent over the past five years at two to four awards annually, with two awards (combined potential value $38.1 thousand) completing through August 2026. The vendor's total footprint spans 33 awards with $1.8 million combined potential value and $514 thousand obligated to date, concentrated in NAICS 541720 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC natural resources conservation forest-range fire suppression code.