Wildland Contracting LLC

Wildland Contracting LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Superior, Montana, provides wildland firefighting equipment and personnel support to federal land management agencies as a small-business prime contractor, operating entirely through delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.

The company delivers water handling infrastructure and trained wildfire suppression personnel on a firm-fixed-price basis. Core capabilities include Type 2 and Type 3 water tenders, potable and gray water trucks, handwashing stations, and certified personnel available for up to 16-hour operational shifts during incident response periods. Representative work includes a $30,400 purchase order from Forest Service Region 4 (Intermountain Region) for water tender services on the Lolo National Forest (base year plus two option years, awarded April 2023, with completion extended to March 2026); a $29,900 delivery order from Region 4 for water handling equipment and potable water truck services (awarded September 2024); and a $26,100 purchase order from the Forest Service Idaho Region for Type 2 tender water support services in Boise (awarded June 2025). Delivery order magnitudes range from $950 to $30,400, with the company executing dozens of task orders annually under its master IDC vehicles.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 13 awards and $1.6 million in combined potential value (64% of dollars), while Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) drives 37 awards but only $809 thousand in combined potential value—reflecting high-volume, low-dollar transactional work. A single additional customer, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, accounts for one $26 thousand purchase order. All five customer entities identified are within USDA or Interior wildfire and land management operations. Obligated dollars total $549 thousand against a $2.5 million potential-value portfolio, indicating the company operates on an as-needed deployment model with frequent small orders rather than large standing commitments.

Vehicle position centers on four $250,000 total small business set-aside IDCs awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center. The most recent IDCs were awarded February 6, 2026 (water handling for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, extending through May 30, 2030; and potable and gray water truck and handwashing station services for Regions 1, 2, and 4, extending through May 1, 2030). Two earlier IDCs, awarded May 1, 2025 and June 2, 2022, cover similar water handling scope across overlapping regional footprints and extend through 2025 and 2030 respectively. All IDCs operate through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system issuing Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements (I-BPAs) for rapid mobilization. Five parent vehicles carry 39 task orders and $504 thousand in combined potential value; the company also holds optional interagency use rights that permit the National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs to issue orders against its vehicles.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to twelve in 2025, with five awards year-to-date in 2026 (most recent April 20, 2026). Trajectory is upward across a five-year window. All 54 awards are prime contracts; the company operates with zero subcontractor footprint and does not sub to other primes. Category concentration is absolute: 54 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS), and 50 awards map to Natural Resources and Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC H208). Place of performance spans western Forest Service regions—Missoula, Montana; Kamiah and Boise, Idaho; Dillon, Montana; and Albuquerque, New Mexico—with optional use extending to Department of Interior regions and all-hazard incident response nationwide. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides on its master IDC vehicles, though most individual delivery orders do not restate a set-aside designation.