Wildlands Service, Inc.

Wildlands Service, Inc., doing business as Wildlands Fire Service Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged woman-owned small business headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, operates as a prime contractor delivering wildland fire suppression, heavy equipment deployment, water handling, vegetation management, and emergency response support to federal land management agencies across multiple regions on a full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside basis.

The company's footprint centers on the U.S. Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8), which accounts for 227 of 320 recent awards worth $31.6 million in combined potential value — roughly 71 percent of the vendor's named customer volume and 35 percent of total potential value. However, the value concentration skews significantly toward the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, which anchors a single $49.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement for hazardous fuels reduction services nationwide through March 31, 2029. The National Interagency Fire Center, placing 30 delivery orders across Wildlands Service's VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) vehicles, represents the third-largest customer by order count ($3.6 million potential value), followed by Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest, 18 awards, $1.3 million) and Region 6 (Pacific Northwest, 8 awards, $1.1 million). The agency concentration reflects Wildlands Service's specialization in rapid-response wildfire resource deployment and the Forest Service's distributed regional procurement model across fire and aviation management.

Wildlands Service holds six parent contract vehicles: five Indefinite Delivery Contracts and one Blanket Purchase Agreement. The largest by task-order volume is IDC 1202SB22T7639 (91 task orders, $4.6 million), followed by IDC 1202SB23T7183 (45 task orders, $2.7 million) and IDC 1243N920T7021 (38 task orders, $1.5 million). The $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement AG43N9B177017 with the Forest Service Southern Region for recreational trail-related activities carries 21 task orders valued at $852 thousand. Recent vehicle awards include two $500,000 Indefinite Delivery Contracts from the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling and miscellaneous heavy equipment in Regions 3 and 8 (February 6, 2026, both Total Small Business set-asides through 2028–2030), and a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for water handling (May 6, 2025, through May 6, 2030). Representative recent delivery orders include a $243.999 million task order from Forest Service Region 6 for fire suppression in Sandy, Oregon (July 27, 2026), a $319.974 million order from Region 8 Southern for fire suppression and equipment deployment (March 15, 2026), and a $192.158 million order from Region 5 Pacific Southwest in California (August 9, 2024). All delivery orders are firm fixed price with performance windows of days to months.

Award trajectory shows strong volatility. The vendor received 37 awards in 2022, peaked at 65 in 2023, dropped to 29 in 2024, fell to 24 in 2025, and rebounded sharply to 58 in 2026. The recent spike—particularly September 2026 with multiple five-figure orders from the Southern Region—reflects seasonal fire-season demand and reflects contract vehicle utilization rather than net pipeline growth. Eleven awards reached ultimate completion between today and October 2026, representing minimal immediate recompete exposure; however, the $49.5 million Fish and Wildlife Service BPA expires March 31, 2029, marking a significant recompete timeline. The Forest Service Southern Region's portfolio of BPAs and IDCs supporting 227 orders will face renewal cycles through 2029–2030.

All 320 awards are prime contracts; the vendor has no sub-award footprint in the source. Award categories concentrate on NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) across 313 awards, with PSC Z17S (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression) covering 298 awards. Set-aside posture is predominantly Total Small Business across the VIPR vehicles and most Forest Service regional IDCs and BPAs, with a small number of full-and-open delivery orders competing without set-aside designation. Combined potential value across all 320 awards stands at $89.2 million, with only $14.2 million obligated to date (16 percent of potential value), reflecting the contingent, task-order-driven nature of fire suppression contracting.

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