Volcano Creek Enterprises Inc.

Volcano Creek Enterprises Inc., a Native American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business and Subchapter S corporation based in Foresthill, California, provides wildland fire management equipment and trained personnel to the federal government as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides, competing in full-and-open (no set-aside) delivery orders on standing indefinite delivery contracts once established. The company delivers specialized fire suppression and all-hazard incident response resources — water tenders, Type 3 and Type 6 engines, excavators, dozers, feller modules, and certified operators — to support federal land-management agencies across the western United States.

Volcano Creek operates under primary NAICS 112910 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression; 96% of the 184 total awards in the source data fall into this narrow capability band. The vendor serves the Department of Agriculture Forest Service almost exclusively. The Forest Service R5 Pacific Southwest Region anchors the portfolio with 90 awards ($5.7 million combined potential value), the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center arm holds 22 awards ($6.4 million), and Federal Fire and Aviation Management accounts for 29 awards ($2.1 million). These three customer offices represent 84% of award count and 94% of combined potential value; the vendor also works with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, R6 Pacific Northwest Region, and the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington, accounting for the remainder of the active customer set.

Recent activity shows volume decline — 23 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, down to 6 in 2024, then 7 in 2025 and 12 in 2026 — reflecting the nature of on-call wildland fire response contracts, which issue task orders episodically as fire seasons and staffing needs spike. Combined potential value across all 184 awards totals $16.3 million; $6.9 million has been obligated. Volcano Creek holds a portfolio of standing Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) through the Virtual Incident Procurement system. The top five parent vehicles include three IDCs and two BPAs: Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB22T8159 (19 task orders, $1.1 million), BPA AG9J61B167377 (15 task orders, $466 thousand), Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SB21T7935 (14 task orders, $721 thousand), BPA AG84M8B167072 (10 task orders), and BPA AG9J61B147047 (8 task orders). Recent I-BPA awards from the National Interagency Fire Center, all dated February and May–June 2025 and 2026, establish multiple $250,000 to $750,000 ceiling vehicles running through 2028–2030 covering water handling, heavy equipment with water, miscellaneous heavy equipment, and faller services for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, West Zone Regions 3, 5, and 6, and Region 5 specifically. Delivery orders under these vehicles range from $5,200 to $645,025, with recent high-volume orders in June–August 2026 totaling $45 thousand, $69 thousand, $117 thousand, and $157 thousand respectively against Region 5 Pacific Southwest activities. Volcano Creek competes exclusively under the total small business set-aside designation on IDV awards; once an I-BPA is established, subsequent delivery orders are awarded in full-and-open competition among qualified awardees on the vehicle. The vendor is not a subcontractor on any awards in the source data; all 184 awards are prime contract or IDV positions.

Mastication, Logging, Fuel load management, grapple piling, tillage, water haul, excavating, land clearing and fire fighting