Bretz, Inc.

Bretz, Inc., doing business as JBS Enterprises, supplies heavy equipment and related services for wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor under small business set-asides, competing exclusively through federal procurement vehicles rather than open market. The vendor is a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Tonasket, Washington, with a twenty-two-year SAM.gov registration history dating to 2004.

Bretz specializes in rental and dispatch of dozers, backhoes, dump trucks, and pickup trucks to support wildfire suppression across the western United States. Representative work includes a $325,242 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) issued July 16, 2025, under the Virtual Incident Procurement system for heavy equipment and related services with performance in Wenatchee, Washington; a $126,038 purchase order for a backhoe from the Forest Service in September 2024; and a $183,234 delivery order from Region 6 in July 2026 for heavy equipment supporting wildland fire suppression. A $54,810 delivery order for dozers in New Mexico in 2021 illustrates geographic scope beyond the Pacific Northwest. All named awards carry firm fixed-price structures with compressed performance timelines typical of emergency response procurement—completion windows of days to weeks rather than months.

Bretz holds nine Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) under the Virtual Incident Procurement system, each carrying a total small business set-aside and ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $500,000, with periods of performance extending through 2028–2030. These I-BPAs cover miscellaneous heavy equipment for Region 6 Pacific Northwest, heavy equipment with water capabilities for Regions 3, 5, and 6 across the western zone, and equipment-specific variants. Task orders are issued from these vehicles as incident response demands require.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent: the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management program (through NIFC) accounts for 11 awards valued at $3.3 million combined potential value, while Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest places 17 awards valued at $1.3 million. Together these two Forest Service entities represent 97% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value. No subcontract footprint exists; all 33 awards in the recent portfolio are prime positions. Recent activity has grown from two awards in 2021 to eight in 2026 year-to-date, with seven awards placed in 2025. The top parent vehicles are the NIFC Indefinite Delivery Contracts, under which 6 to 5 task orders have been placed respectively.

Licensed Septic installation, Home site prep, road building/ maintanence, Forestery advisor, Metal Fabrication,