Brothers Fire Inc.

Brothers Fire Inc., doing business as Liberty Wildfire, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business based in Twisp, Washington, that provides specialized wildland firefighting services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor exclusively—100 percent of recent awards are prime contracts, with no subcontract footprint. The company competes across Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open Forest Service regional procurements, delivering faller crews for firebreak creation, Type 1–6 water handling engines and tactical water tenders, and chipper services for fuel load management across western U.S. forest regions.

Liberty Wildfire's customer base is heavily concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five funding entities by award count account for 90 percent of awards: Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) leads with 28 awards and $1.5 million in combined potential value, followed by Region 4 (Intermountain) with 19 awards and $842 thousand, the National Interagency Fire Center with 11 awards and $4 million (the largest dollar anchor), Region 1 (Northern) with 10 awards and $234 thousand, and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region with 6 awards and $226 thousand. The dollar rankings show meaningful divergence from volume: the National Interagency Fire Center dominates potential value despite placing fewer awards than regional offices, reflecting the agency's role as the holder and administrator of the company's nine indefinite-delivery contracts, each valued at $250,000 to $750,000 through 2028–2030.

Liberty Wildfire holds nine indefinite-delivery contracts through the National Interagency Fire Center, all under Total Small Business set-asides with firm fixed pricing, spanning specialized service lines across Forest Service regions. The primary vehicles are a $750,000 IDIQ for faller services in West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (June 2028 completion), a $500,000 IDIQ for water handling equipment serving Region 6 (May 2030 completion), a $500,000 IDIQ for chipper services in Regions 5 and 6 (May 2029 completion), a $500,000 IDIQ for faller services covering Regions 1, 2, and 4 in the East Zone (June 2028 completion), and multiple smaller $250,000 vehicles for specialized services across regions 1 through 10. Regional Forest Service offices and the BLM Idaho Region issue delivery orders against these IDIQs, ranging from under $3,000 to approximately $91,000 per order. Task-order activity has been substantial: the largest vehicle (West Zone fallers, $750,000 ceiling) carries 21 task orders worth approximately $790,000 combined potential value; another (heavy equipment for Regions 5–6, $250,000 ceiling) shows 10 task orders generating $470,000.

Award activity has grown sharply since the vendor entered the federal market. In 2024, Liberty Wildfire secured 4 awards; that grew to 39 in 2025 and remained at 39 in 2026 through mid-September. Combined potential value across all 82 awards totals $7.1 million, with $3.1 million obligated to date (44 percent realization rate), reflecting the typical dynamics of indefinite-delivery vehicles and seasonal fire-suppression demand. The company competes exclusively under NAICS 332612 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation Fire Suppression and Presuppression categories, with no diversification into other service lines or customer agencies beyond the Forest Service ecosystem. All awards are structured as firm fixed-price delivery orders or IDIQs, and the source indicates the vendor operates without subcontractors across its entire federal footprint—Liberty Wildfire delivers services directly to the government rather than teaming with or relying on subs.

The concentration on National Interagency Fire Center vehicles and Total Small Business set-asides means Liberty Wildfire's competitiveness depends on maintaining HUBZone certification and securing delivery-order task calls from regional Forest Service offices. The vendor has not historically competed on full-and-open contracts; recent awards show increasing prevalence of non-set-aside (no-set-aside-used) delivery orders issued against the underlying small-business IDIQ vehicles, suggesting the company has begun leveraging HUBZone status to win orders without formal set-aside designations. This posture limits exposure to wider federal civilian or defense contracting but provides stable, recurring task-order demand within the narrowly defined wildland firefighting and fuel-management space.