Dogs With Jobs, LLC

Dogs With Jobs, LLC, doing business as Mussel Dogs, is a woman-owned small business based in Oakdale, California, that provides canine detection services for invasive species management to the Department of the Interior and other federal agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation certified as a self-designated small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business, competing under both total small business and woman-owned small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Mussel Dogs specializes in trained canine detection teams—handler, assistant, and detection dog—to inspect watercraft for invasive zebra and quagga mussels at federal recreation areas and reservoirs, with secondary capability in scent-detection work for threatened wildlife such as marbled murrelet nests. Recent representative work includes a $389,390 firm fixed price purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation for canine inspections at New Melones Reservoir in Sonora, California, extending through December 2026 (exercising the second option year); a $54,740 BPA call order from the National Park Service Intermountain Region for detection services at Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas; and an $8,500 call order from the same NPS region for mussel dog inspections at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area in Fritch, Texas, awarded in March 2026. The vendor holds a single-award blanket purchase agreement with the National Park Service Intermountain Region valued at $285,600 through June 2027 for detection canine services at Amistad and Lake Meredith, with two task orders issued to date totaling $55,000 in combined potential value.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Department of the Interior. The NPS Intermountain Region leads with eight awards totaling $624,000 in combined potential value (44% of all awards), followed by the Bureau of Reclamation with three awards totaling $608,000 in combined potential value. The NPS Pacific West Region, the Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection account for the remaining portfolio. Combined potential value across all fourteen prime awards totals $1.4 million, with $1.1 million obligated. Activity is intermittent—two awards in 2018, three in 2019, one in 2021, three in 2023, and one in 2026—but the vendor has established continuity with Interior customers over a nine-year span. One award (the Bureau of Reclamation contract at New Melones) carries an ultimate completion date in the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure valued at $389,000.

Inspection services for quagga and zebra mussels at lakes utilizing detection canines, education for boaters on clean drain and dry, consulting services to establish or improve current mussel prevention programs