James Lonell Crowther

James Lonell Crowther, doing business as Crowther Fresh Water Trout, a Colorado-based sole proprietorship, supplies hatchery-reared rainbow trout to the federal government under total small business set-asides, operating exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. The vendor is registered at 18796 US Hwy 285, La Jara, Colorado, and competes under NAICS 112511 (Fish Hatcheries) and allied PSC codes covering live animals and fish conservation services.

Crowther Fresh Water Trout specializes in disease-free rainbow trout restocking for military and federal recreational facilities, delivering 9-11 inch whirling-disease-negative fish for lake and reservoir replenishment. The vendor's recent representative work includes a $62,998.78 delivery order from the Air Force Academy (awarded April 1, 2026, under total small business set-aside) for rainbow trout delivery to the Academy's recreational fishing lakes and the Farish Recreational Area in Colorado, a $214,520 purchase order from the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region (awarded March 14, 2022, under total small business set-aside) covering sports fish stocking at Fort Carson, Colorado reservoirs with a base year and four option years running through March 13, 2027, and a $59,999.67 delivery order from the Air Force Academy (April 1, 2025) for hatchery fish restocking services.

Customer concentration is tight and military-focused. The top two funding agencies account for 75% of awards: the Department of the Air Force Headquarters Air Force Academy (10 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region (9 awards, $430 thousand combined potential value). The rankings align closely by both count and dollars; the Air Force Academy dominates the portfolio. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 round out the vendor's customer base with minimal volume.

Crowther Fresh Water Trout holds two active indefinite delivery contracts, both total small business set-asides. The Air Force Academy awarded a single-award IDC on April 1, 2026, with a $340,000 ceiling running through March 31, 2030, to supply rainbow trout with five annual deliveries split between the Academy and Farish Recreational Area (10,000 pounds total across the contract period). An earlier single-award IDC from the Air Force Academy, awarded April 1, 2023, with a $240,000 ceiling, ran through March 31, 2026 and generated three delivery orders of $59,999.67 each. Activity has been modest and intermittent — one award in 2022, two in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026 — with a combined potential value of $2.1 million across all 28 prime awards. Two awards (combined potential value $278 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure on the older Air Force Academy IDC as it cycles out.

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