Zerohero Inc.

Zerohero Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, provides on-site recycling services, refuse collection, and waste management support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor, operating exclusively in the full-and-open market without set-aside designations at the delivery-order level despite holding a Total Small Business set-aside indefinite delivery contract.

Zerohero's customer base is entirely concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's regional fire and land management operations. The top five forest service regional offices account for 85% of combined potential value, led decisively by the Pacific Southwest Region (10 awards, $1 million combined potential value), followed by the Rocky Mountain Region ($477 thousand across 2 awards), the Pacific Northwest Region (5 awards, $363 thousand), the Intermountain Region ($304 thousand across 2 awards), and the National Interagency Fire Center's Fire and Aviation Management program ($297 thousand across 3 awards). This concentration reflects Zerohero's narrow market focus on incident base camp waste management and recycling during wildland fire response operations.

Zerohero holds a Total Small Business set-aside indefinite delivery contract (1202SB22T0001) issued by the National Interagency Fire Center on August 10, 2022, with a $250,000 ceiling and ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025. The contract funds on-site recycling services at local, regional, and national all-hazard incident base camps across all geographic area coordination centers. Against this vehicle, Zerohero has exercised 12 task orders valued at $904 thousand in combined potential value, with individual delivery orders ranging from $22,000 to $240,902.40. Representative work includes a $240,902.40 delivery order from the Intermountain Region (August 2024) for recycling services at incident base camps, a $148,308.32 delivery order from the Pacific Southwest Region (September 2024) for recycling and refuse collection supporting wildland fire incident response, and a $222,987 purchase order from the Pacific Southwest Region (August 2022) for dumpster services at the Lightning Complex incident. Zerohero also holds a secondary blanket purchase agreement vehicle (129J6119A0003) with 2 task orders totaling $115 thousand. Work is performed at multiple forest service regional locations including San Bernardino, California; Roseburg, Oregon; Phoenix, Arizona; Springfield, Oregon; McCall, Idaho; and Pueblo, Colorado.

Activity has been modest and uneven across the period — six awards in 2021, eight in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, and one in the first half of 2026 — with the indefinite delivery contract vehicle representing sustained but sporadic utilization. Zerohero's capability portfolio centers on solid waste collection, recycling operations, and facilities support services in emergency response contexts, with 26 of 29 awards categorized under the Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC and the majority split between Facilities Support Services and Support Activities for Forestry NAICS categories. Zerohero operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract activity in the source record, and competes in full-and-open procurement channels despite its small disadvantaged business certification.