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Water Scooper Multiple Award IDIQ

Response deadline: Oct 29, 2026; 4:30 PM UTC-06:00
Set-aside: SBASmall business (total); Small Business Set Aside - Total
Notice type: Presolicitation
Posted on SAM.gov: Sep 22, 2026; Archives Nov 1, 2026

Description

The USFS intends to issue a solicitation for Water Scooper Services in or around 15 days. We intend to award multiple IDIQ contracts. The intent of this acquisition and the resultant contract(s) are to obtain Contractor operated and maintained Turbine powered, Multi-engine, Amphibious, Fixed-Wing, Water Scooping Aircraft services. The aircraft shall have full or interim Interagency Airtanker Board (IAB) approval as a multi-engine water scooper. The primary use of water scooping aircraft under this contract will be for initial attack (IA) and extended attack of wildland fires.

From SAM.gov’s daily data file, as published on Oct 24, 2026 (UTC).

Contacts

Matthew D. Olson · primary
[email protected]
2084076002
Kay Brundage · secondary
[email protected]
8164900249

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Posted on SAM.gov: Sep 22, 2026: The agency’s publication date, as SAM.gov states it.
First recorded by BidLookup: Oct 8, 2026: The UTC day of the first read of SAM.gov’s listings that stored this notice.
Last confirmed: Oct 23, 2026: The UTC day of the latest read that still listed this notice. It does not mean the notice is unchanged or still open on SAM.gov now, and it is not the index’s last-read time.
Description as published: Oct 24, 2026 (UTC): The date of the daily data file this text came from.

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