Tryways Inc.

Tryways Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in East Wenatchee, Washington, supplies mobile water and sanitation infrastructure equipment—potable and gray water truck trailers and handwashing station equipment—to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor operating entirely under small business set-asides. The company competes exclusively as a small business (100% of awards carry total small business or small business set-aside designations) and holds no minority ownership, HUBZone, or SDVOSB certifications.

Tryways operates across a narrow but deep customer set concentrated in wildfire suppression and emergency response operations in the Pacific Northwest. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) accounts for 47 awards and $1.9 million of the $3.3 million combined potential value across Tryways' recent footprint. The National Interagency Fire Center represents the second-largest customer by dollars ($1 million across five awards), while the broader Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington segment round out the customer base. The portfolio spans 61 awards since 2009, with combined dollars obligated reaching $1.9 million (57% of combined potential value).

Capability work is entirely specialized to mobile water and sanitation provisioning for federal wildfire response. Representative delivery orders include a $120,212.50 firm fixed-price order from the Forest Service in June 2024 for potable and gray water truck trailers and handwashing station trailers supporting wildfire suppression across Regions 3, 5, and 6; an $82,075 order from the same customer in June 2025; and multiple smaller delivery orders ranging from $8,850 to $77,050 supporting emergency response and forest management operations. All work is performed firm fixed-price with no subcontractor footprint across the visible award history.

Tryways holds two primary indefinite delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center. The first, awarded May 28, 2024, carries a $250,000 ceiling under total small business set-aside through May 28, 2029, covering Regions 3, 5, and 6 across the Forest Service footprint. A second contract, awarded February 6, 2026, increased the regional capacity to $500,000 ceiling under the same set-aside and completion date, restricted to Region 6 only. These two IDCs anchor the delivery-order base; the vendor's top three parent vehicles (IDC 1204H124T7265, IDC 1204H118T7287, and IDC 1202SB21T7688) collectively account for 39 of the 61 awards. Work across all vehicles is categorized under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 541614, 56 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC, 58 awards).

Activity has remained modest and variable, ranging from 4 awards in 2023 to 9 in 2024, with 6 awards in the first eight months of 2026. The vendor holds no exposure to recompete cliffs; all delivery orders are short-duration firm fixed-price awards with completion dates spanning August 2022 through September 2026. Tryways was registered as a federal contractor in 2006 and operates geographically concentrated in the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon), with place-of-performance locations at Wenatchee, Pendleton, Baker City, and Everett, Washington and Sandy and Portland, Oregon.