White & Zumstein Inc.

White & Zumstein Inc., a Battle Ground, Washington-based small business Subchapter S corporation, provides heavy equipment and skilled personnel services for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burn operations, and all-hazard incident response as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company operates entirely within the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system administered by the National Interagency Fire Center on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and interagency cooperators including the Department of Interior and National Park Service across the Pacific Northwest and western United States.

White & Zumstein's customer concentration is narrow and federally mandated by its VIPR positioning. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 100% of recent awards (24 of 32 total), split between Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) at 15 awards and $1.1 million combined potential value, and the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center at 8 IDIQs and $3 million combined potential value. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Pacific West Region accounts for 8 awards and $49 thousand. All work is performed under small-business-set-aside multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts, with delivery orders issued firm fixed price for specific incident response mobilizations.

White & Zumstein holds five active IDIQs, all awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center with ceilings of $500,000 each running through 2028–2030: Heavy Equipment Task Force for Region 6, Heavy Equipment for West Zone Regions 5 and 6, Fallers for West Zone Regions 5 and 6, and Miscellaneous Heavy Equipment for Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Only). Earlier IDIQs, awarded in 2023–2025 with ceilings of $250,000 each, cover similar equipment and personnel scope for the same regions. These vehicles enable rapid task order issuance under VIPR; recent delivery orders range from $12,200 to $192,920 and carry completion dates within weeks of award, reflecting emergency response posture. Capability scope includes dozers, excavators, faller modules and singles, trained incident-response personnel, materials, supplies, and transportation services structured to support up to 16-hour daily shifts.

Activity has grown sharply: one award in 2018, two in 2023, nine in 2024, three in 2025, and ten so far in 2026 (as of August 26). Combined potential value is $4.3 million with $1.3 million obligated to date (29%). The top parent vehicles are IDC 1204H124T7320 (8 task orders, $414 thousand), IDC 12569R23T7970 (4 task orders, $233 thousand), and IDC 1204H126T7807 (2 task orders, $346 thousand). Category concentration is characterized by 24 awards under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and 8 under NAICS 113310 (Logging), with 24 awards under PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. White & Zumstein operates as a pure prime (100% of awards) with no subcontract work recorded in the source data.