Ward Wildfire, LLC

Ward Wildfire, LLC, a veteran-owned small business based in Bushnell, Florida, provides water handling equipment, personnel, transportation, and logistical resources for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident support to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates entirely in its prime capacity — all four recent awards are prime contracts or IDCs — with no subcontract work in the source data.

Ward Wildfire's customer base consists entirely of Forest Service entities within the Department of Agriculture, driven by concentration at the National Interagency Fire Center, which accounts for 100% of the vendor's recent award portfolio (2 awards, $750 thousand combined potential value). The vendor holds two indefinite-delivery contracts — a $500 thousand multiple-award I-BPA from the National Interagency Fire Center awarded February 6, 2026, running through May 6, 2030, and a $250 thousand multiple-award Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement from the USDA Forest Service awarded May 6, 2025, also running through May 6, 2030. Both IDCs procure water handling services for Regions 3 and 8 under Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) structure, with rates based on up to 16-hour daily shifts and annual rate adjustments subject to government review. The vendor has placed two delivery orders against these vehicles: a $115 thousand total small business set-aside delivery order from Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) with performance in Alturas, California, due August 25, 2026, and an $81 thousand total small business set-aside delivery order from Forest Service Region 8 (Southern Region) with performance in Asheville, North Carolina, completed May 4, 2026.

Activity is nascent — one award in 2025, three in 2026 — with combined potential value of $947 thousand across all four awards. Only $197 thousand (21% of potential value) has been obligated to date. All work falls under NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation-Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The vendor's capability footprint is entirely fire-incident logistics: equipment staging, crew mobilization, water transport and delivery, and emergency response coordination for wildland and prescribed fire operations across the western and southern regions of the National Interagency system.