Waldo&Son Fire Suppression & Transport LLC

Waldo&Son Fire Suppression & Transport LLC, a Montana-based sole proprietorship limited liability company, provides wildland fire suppression and water transport logistics services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates across seven federal awards with a combined potential value of $1.3 million, all concentrated within the Department of Agriculture's forest fire management operations.

Waldo&Son's customer base is entirely USDA-focused. The National Interagency Fire Center (an administrative component of the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management program) accounts for four awards worth $1 million in combined potential value, anchored by two indefinite delivery contracts — a $500,000 multiple-award IDC awarded February 6, 2026, for water handling services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 running through May 30, 2030, and a predecessor $250,000 multiple-award IDC awarded May 30, 2025, covering the same regions. The Forest Service's Region 1–Northern Region accounts for two additional delivery orders totaling $31 thousand (most recently a $19,250 total small business set-aside delivery order issued August 6, 2026, under the Virtual Incident Procurement system for fire suppression and water transport logistics, ultimate completion August 15, 2026). A single $250,000 IDC from the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station rounds out the portfolio.

Waldo&Son's concrete capability is water handling equipment, transportation, and trained personnel capable of supporting up to 16-hour daily shifts during wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Services include water transport trucks, tenders, operators, materials, and supplies. All work operates under firm fixed-price, multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts through the VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) system as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements, with performance across Montana and the broader East Zone footprint (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9) determined by contractor resource location and incident dispatch. The vendor's seven-award footprint spans 2019 to August 2026, with only $76 thousand obligated against $1.3 million in potential value, reflecting the fire-season and incident-driven ordering pattern typical of interagency wildfire logistics contracting.