J Foster & Associates LLC

J Foster & Associates LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business and SBA 8(a) certified firm headquartered in Blackfoot, Idaho, serves as a prime contractor on 97% of its federal awards, delivering wildland fire management training instruction, geographic information systems support, environmental cost estimating, and technical consulting to natural-resource agencies. The company competes predominantly under 8(a) set-asides (both sole-source and competitive designations) and total small business set-asides, with recurring awards from Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, and Department of Energy programs.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on certified wildland fire training delivery through instructor services for interagency fire academies, GIS staffing and mapping support for fire management operations, contract administration and cost-estimation support for environmental remediation programs, and technical consulting on nuclear fuel manufacturing research. Representative work includes a $3.65 million 8(a) sole-source contract with the Forest Service (awarded September 2024) for temporary professional course instructors supporting interagency wildland fire training through August 2028; an $802,763 full-and-open definitive contract with USDA Wildland Operations for instructor services at the National Interagency Fire and Resource Management Center (completed August 2026); a $1.66 million 8(a) sole-source delivery order from the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (May 2026, expiring May 2029) for contract administration and general support to the Office of Cost Estimating at Environmental Management Los Alamos; and $194,162 and $192,132 Project Grants from the DOE Office of Science (CFDA 81.049, July 2023 through July 2024) for powder injection molding and powder injection overmolding process development for high-burnup and fast reactor nuclear fuels.

Customer concentration is skewed toward wildland fire training and GIS work. The top five agencies (91% of recent award count) are the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (56 awards, $8.6 million combined potential value), the National Interagency Fire Center (49 awards, $4.3 million), the National Park Service (14 awards, $12 million), the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (8 awards, $7.9 million), and the National Advanced Fire Resource Institute (5 awards, $805 thousand). When ranked by potential dollar value rather than count, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates with two contracts carrying $106 million in combined ceiling—these are the vendor's two multiple-award Federal Supply Schedule contracts, both valued at $53 million with performance through March 2027. The rankings reveal a tension: J Foster & Associates operates hundreds of small task orders under Forest Service and NIFC BPAs, but the largest dollar ceilings sit on its GSA schedule vehicles.

J Foster & Associates holds four parent IDVs: a $4.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with the National Park Service for GIS services (September 2023 through August 2028); a $1 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Interagency Fire Center for aviation management technician services, wildland fire training, GIS support, and contract administration (March 2024 through March 2027, 8(a) sole-source); two GSA Federal Supply Schedule multiple-award contracts each ceiling at $53 million (one Total Small Business set-aside, one full-and-open, both running through March 2027) covering 28 Special Item Numbers across engineering, environmental consulting, technical consulting, and educational support services. The vendor also operates under Forest Service BPA 12024B18A0015, which has generated 100 task orders carrying $2.7 million in combined potential value—the single largest parent vehicle by task-order count. SCI-reportable activity shows invoiced revenue of $3.4 million across prime contracts from FY2022 through FY2025, with peak invoicing of $1.6 million in FY2022 and $1.4 million in FY2024; government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $52.13/hr to a median of $72.80/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $241.58/hr.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years. The vendor averaged 24 awards per year in 2022, declining to 18 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 year-to-date—a pattern reflecting the phasing out of task orders under legacy vehicle agreements and the consolidation of ongoing work under the newer GSA and NIFC IDVs. Eight awards (combined potential value $7.4 million) expire within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. Across all prime service contracts captured in the Service Contract Inventory, J Foster & Associates deployed approximately 7.2 to 9.1 FTEs annually, with an average subcontractor hours share of 1% and only one named subcontractor recorded—the vendor builds and maintains its own delivery teams rather than relying on significant subcontracting. The company's four sub awards are staffing modifications on an Idaho Cleanup Project contract; these represent negligible sub work relative to its prime footprint. J Foster & Associates' award profile is predominantly 8(a)-driven and narrowly concentrated in wildland fire training and GIS services to federal natural-resource agencies, with no meaningful prime work with defense or civilian IT customers.

JFoster & Associates was established in 2015, headquartered in Idaho Falls, ID with offices in Boise, ID and Richland, WA. We provide resource solutions for customers' project and program needs. Our services includes Project Management Services, Technical & Administrative Services and Facility Support Services. JFA's staff has 200+ years combined experience in engineering, nuclear safety, environmental management, project management and construction. We provide these technical services to a variety of government and commercial customers. JFA's core competencies include Staff Augmentation, Project Controls & Scheduling, Start-up & Commissioning, Oversight; Infrastructure, Construction, Facility & Configuration Management; Health & Safety Plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Cost Estimating & Budgeting; Environmental, Remediation, Safety & Health Programs and Quality Assurance Programs & Plans.