Lucero Joseph D

Lucero Joseph D, doing business as J & A Trapping Service, provides feral hog trapping and removal services exclusively to the USDA Forest Service Southern Region as a prime contractor under Total Small Business and Partial Small Business set-asides. The vendor is a Hispanic American-owned and American Indian-owned sole proprietorship based in Aiken, South Carolina, with an exclusive operational focus on invasive species control—specifically feral hog population management in forest and grassland ecosystems.

J & A Trapping Service operates under a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8) established September 23, 2020, carrying a $250,000 ceiling and serving as the source vehicle for seven task orders totaling $113 thousand in combined potential value. The vendor also holds work under a second IDC vehicle (AG4660C130009) with five task orders valued at $20 thousand. Representative prime awards include a $15,000 firm fixed-price call order issued March 23, 2026, for wild pig control at New Ellenton, South Carolina; a $19,800 call order from December 22, 2023, for feral hog control at the same location; and a $17,340 call order from September 16, 2024, also for wild hog control in New Ellenton. Work is consistently performed in Aiken and New Ellenton, South Carolina, with ultimate completion dates clustered in the September-December timeframe each fiscal year.

Customer concentration is absolute: all fourteen awards across the vendor's documented footprint fund the USDA Forest Service Southern Region, representing the entire $883 thousand in combined potential value. Primary NAICS categorization is 4830 (Hunting and Trapping), with PSC coding split between Natural Resources/Conservation—Other and Natural Resources/Conservation—Other Wildlife Management. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract footprint. Activity shows one award per year since 2022, with a single award (valued at $15,000) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. Only $133 thousand has been obligated across all fourteen awards—15% of combined potential value—indicating the vendor operates on a call-order model with irregular invoicing cadence tied to seasonal hog control demand across the Southern Region's forest holdings.