Whitewater, LLC

Whitewater, LLC, a for-profit partnership based in Juntura, Oregon, supplies water tenders, wildland firefighting equipment, and fire-suppression logistics to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior as a small-business prime contractor on firm fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across its prime footprint. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of awards) and holds no subcontract exposure.

Whitewater's capability portfolio centers on water handling for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response. Concrete work includes supplying Type 2 and Type 3 water tenders, support engines (Types 3–6), tactical water tenders, transportation, lodging, and personnel for emergency incident response. Representative awards include a $54,600 delivery order from the USDA Forest Service Intermountain Region for water-handling equipment and supplies (September 2024), a $58,500 delivery order from the same region for water tenders and firefighting supplies (September 2024), a $37,222.97 delivery order from the National Interagency Fire Center for a Type 2 water tender (September 2021), and a $13,650 purchase order from the Idaho Region for Type 2 tender water support (June 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads by combined potential value at $874 thousand across nine awards, followed by the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (R6) at $636 thousand across sixteen awards. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington accounts for nineteen awards totaling $101 thousand combined potential value. Together, these three entities represent 98% of recent awards. Whitewater holds three indefinite delivery contracts: a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for water handling in Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) through May 30, 2025, awarded June 7, 2022; a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for water handling across the West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10) through May 30, 2030, awarded May 30, 2025; and a $250,000 multiple-award IDC for water handling in Region 6 through May 30, 2030, awarded February 6, 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside. The three parent vehicles driving recent activity are an indefinite delivery contract carrying nine task orders ($183 thousand combined potential value), a blanket purchase agreement with seven task orders ($139 thousand), and another indefinite delivery contract with six task orders ($192 thousand).

Activity peaked in 2022 with seven awards, then declined to three awards in 2024 and two in 2025. The vendor's recent award velocity is flat to declining. Most work falls under NAICS 541711 (Support Activities for Forestry, 31 awards) and PSC 452 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, 30 awards). Combined potential value across all fifty awards is $1.8 million, with $647 thousand obligated (36% realization rate).