Western States Emergency Equipment LLC

Western States Emergency Equipment LLC, a Missoula, Montana-based small business, supplies emergency response equipment and mobile infrastructure to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with 100% of awards structured as prime contracts and delivery orders issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system and indefinite delivery vehicles.

The vendor specializes in equipment and support services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response operations. Core product offerings include clerical support units (mobile administrative trailers), potable and gray water trucks with trailer-mounted handwashing stations, weed washing units, mobile shower facilities, and associated personnel and logistics support. Representative work includes a $75,336 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) on July 29, 2026, for administrative trailers and water trucks supporting incident management operations at Dillon, Montana; a $114,740 August 2025 delivery order from Region 1 for mobile infrastructure supporting the same operations; and a $147,913 August 2024 purchase order for a clerical support unit trailer serving wildland fire operations. All named delivery orders carry firm fixed-price structures with completion windows of two to four weeks.

Customer concentration sits heavily with USDA Forest Service. The National Interagency Fire Center anchors the dollar volume, with 12 awards carrying combined potential value of $3.6 million (64% of the portfolio). USDA Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) leads by award count with 21 awards totaling $755 thousand in combined potential value. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region accounts for 2 awards and $940 thousand. The portfolio spans six customer agencies total, with 97% of awards flowing through the top five.

Western States Emergency Equipment holds seven active indefinite delivery contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center. The largest and most recently awarded are a $750,000 ceiling IDC for clerical support units (Region 13—National, awarded February 2026, running through April 2028) and a $500,000 ceiling IDC for weed washing units serving the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, and 4, awarded February 2026, extending through May 2030). Additional IDCs with $500,000 and $250,000 ceilings cover potable and gray water trucks with handwashing stations and regional weed washing units across Regions 1, 2, and 4. Task orders under these vehicles carry modest individual values—the top four parent vehicles show combined potential values ranging from $39,000 to $135,000 per vehicle. All IDC awards use total small business set-asides and firm fixed-price structures.

Activity has grown unevenly across the period shown: five awards in 2022, one in 2023, eight in 2024, five in 2025, and nine in 2026 through late August. Combined potential value across the entire 39-award portfolio stands at $5.6 million, with $1.1 million obligated to date (19% of potential value). All awards are classified under NAICS 238990 (Support Activities for Forestry) or 561439 (Other Business Service Centers), with 31 of 39 awards using PSC code Q344 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). Western States Emergency Equipment operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data.