Paul Bolling

Paul Bolling, doing business as B & B Contractors, is a sole proprietorship based in Perkinston, Mississippi, that has been registered to receive federal awards since April 2004. The company is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business specializing in mechanical site preparation, vegetation management, fuel reduction, and habitat restoration services in support of federal forestry and conservation initiatives. B & B Contractors provides heavy equipment operations, primarily utilizing roller drum choppers and similar machinery, to prepare land for reforestation, reduce wildfire fuel loads, and support environmental management objectives across national forests in the Southern United States.

Through its federal contract awards, B & B Contractors has demonstrated consistent expertise in delivering vegetation management and mechanical site preparation services to the U.S. Forest Service, Region 8 (Southern Region). The company's contract performance spans from 2021 through 2025, with individual task orders and delivery orders ranging from $18,000 to $648,898. Notable past awards include a $648,898 firm fixed-price delivery order for FY22 Bienville mechanical site preparation for longleaf restoration at Bienville National Forest in Columbus, Mississippi; a $180,000 delivery order for FY23 Bienville mechanical site preparation; a $164,730 delivery order for FY22 mechanical fuel reduction utilizing single drum roller chopping in Wiggins, Mississippi; and a $100,345 delivery order for mechanical site preparation roller chopping to facilitate longleaf seedling planting, also in Wiggins. Additional smaller task orders have addressed specific ranger district requirements, including the $74,700 DeSoto Ranger District vegetation management award for single drum chopping of 332 acres and the $24,975 Chickasawhay Ranger District mechanical site preparation call. These contracts have been awarded without set-aside designations or under total small business set-asides, demonstrating the company's capability to compete both competitively and under small business preferences. All awards have been issued by the U.S. Forest Service with no identified subcontractors, indicating that B & B Contractors performs the work as a prime contractor.

B & B Contractors currently holds three active Blanket Purchase Agreements with the U.S. Forest Service, Region 8 (Southern Region). The most recent BPA, awarded September 1, 2025, has a ceiling value of $7,500,000 and extends through August 31, 2030, supporting the Forest Service's "Forests Project" to address vegetation concerns resulting from Hurricane Beryl and recent flooding events, monitor Red-Cockaded Woodpecker populations, and perform habitat restoration across national forests in the Southern Region, primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana. A second BPA, awarded August 1, 2023, with a $10,000,000 ceiling and completion date of July 31, 2028, covers vegetation management and wildlife protection services across Mississippi national forests; to date, two task orders totaling $92,700 have been issued under this agreement. The third BPA, awarded November 2, 2022, has a $7,500,000 ceiling and extends through November 30, 2027, providing vegetation management and wildlife protection services at Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. All three agreements were competitively awarded under total small business set-aside designations and enable the Forest Service to issue task orders on an as-needed basis for specific vegetation management and habitat restoration projects. These IDVs collectively position B & B Contractors as a primary vegetation management contractor for the Forest Service's Southern Region operations.