The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a purchase order to Jerome L Taylor Trucking Inc., a minority-owned small business, on October 1, 2026, for refuse removal services valued at $610,089 under a Total Small Business Set-Aside. Performance occurs at three USDA facilities: Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, and the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, DC. The modification adds funding for container rental and weekly scheduled pickups across six refuse streams—routine refuse, cardboard, construction debris, incinerator ash, autoclave waste, and scrap tires—with 82 containers rented and 52 collected weekly, plus will-call service for 30 additional containers. Service is firm-fixed-price, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, excluding federal holidays, with 24-hour makeup service for missed collections. The base period runs October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2027, with four one-year option periods extending to September 30, 2031.