Water Tenders, Inc.

Water Tenders, Inc., doing business as West Coast Water Tenders, supplies water tender vehicles, portable dip tanks, helicopter water troughs, and related equipment and support services to federal land management and defense agencies as a prime contractor, operating exclusively in the open competition category with no set-aside designations. The company is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business, headquartered in Santa Clarita, California.

Water Tenders' federal award footprint centers on wildland firefighting and emergency response support, with concrete work spanning water tender vehicle provision for active fire incidents, portable equipment for incident-specific needs, and wet runway testing equipment for defense operations. Representative recent awards include a $101,400 firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Forest Service for water tender vehicles and incident response services in California (awarded September 2021, completion November 2021), a $56,652 purchase order from the Department of the Interior's Idaho Region for water tender equipment and support services (awarded June 2025), and a $49,076 purchase order from the Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) for wildland firefighting water tender vehicles and equipment (awarded September 2024, completion October 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five funding entities by award count account for 87% of the award portfolio, led by the Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) with 21 awards totaling $741 thousand in combined potential value. However, the dollar rankings diverge sharply: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center anchors 88% of the combined potential value through a single $2.5 million blanket purchase agreement awarded May 2024 for wet runway testing capabilities and water equipment support, running through May 2029. Water Tenders holds two Forest Service blanket purchase agreements (14 and 2 task orders respectively) that generate recurring task orders for incident support.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC profiles reflect its specialization: 19 awards fall under All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation, 17 under Support Activities for Forestry, and 36 awards carry the PSC code for Forest-Range Fire Suppression and Presuppression. Activity has been episodic — five awards in 2020, four in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2024, and one in 2025 — with combined potential value across 38 awards totaling $4 million and obligated dollars at $893 thousand (23% of potential value). The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Water Tenders has served eight distinct federal customer agencies since 2007, with performance concentrated in California, Idaho, and at Air Force Test Center locations.

Forest fire prevention and fores fire suppressiont. We provide water tenders to Region 5 of the U.S.D.A. for fire related activities.