J. Franco Reforestation Inc.

J. Franco Reforestation Inc., doing business as J Franco Reforestation Inc., is a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in Aumsville, Oregon that provides wildland fire suppression crew services, reforestation, vegetation management, and forest restoration to the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open competitions. The company operates Type 2 firefighter crews and specialized equipment across western Forest Service regions and holds multiple indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center totaling $2.25 million in ceilings for chippers, water handling, and refrigerated trailers to support fire suppression and prescribed project work.

J. Franco Reforestation is exclusively a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) with zero subcontract exposure. Customer concentration is acute and single-agency dominant: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its regional offices account for approximately 118 of 184 awards (64% by count) representing $118.7 million in combined potential value (85% of the portfolio). The Forest Service's regional offices—R6 (Pacific Northwest), R2 (Rocky Mountain), R3 (Southwestern), and R1 (Northern)—place the bulk of task orders for delivery of crews and forestry labor. The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region contributes 18 awards valued at $2.1 million, primarily for crew services. The top two customers by potential value (USDA Forest Service and its Pacific Northwest Regional Office) represent 95% of combined potential value, indicating severe concentration risk if either customer reduces procurement.

Recent capability work exemplifies the core portfolio. In September 2026, the Forest Service issued J. Franco Reforestation a $231,496 Total Small Business delivery order for wildland fire and all-hazard incidents support in the Pacific Northwest, a $284,925 order for fire support in Montana, and a $258,338 order for incident response in Washington—all firm fixed price with July 1, 2027 completion dates. Earlier in 2024–2025, the company executed over 30 delivery orders ranging from $26 thousand to $390 thousand for reforestation, tree planting, site preparation, forest thinning, and wildfire support across Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah. June 2025 saw a cluster of 17 purchase orders from the Forest Service Idaho Region totaling approximately $1.65 million for Type 2 firefighter crew services at designated field sites (Wood Ridge, Lee, Spring Creek, Livingston Draw, Red Canyon, Sleeper Ranch, La Bonte, Hazelton, Jakes, Cottonwood Flats), all completing October 31, 2025.

The vendor sits on multiple parent IDIQs. The largest by task-order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC21T2418 with 112 task orders and $16.9 million combined potential value, followed by Blanket Purchase Agreements AG04H1B179676 ($1.5 million, 14 orders), AG04H1B179674 ($1.3 million, 9 orders), and AG04H1B179675 ($1.2 million, 9 orders). Newer award positions, formalized in 2024–2026, include six National Interagency Fire Center IDIQ vehicles: two multiple-award $250,000 IDIQs for chippers (Regions 5 & 6, awarded May 2024); two $250,000 miscellaneous heavy equipment contracts (Region 6 Pacific Northwest, awarded May 2024 and Feb 2026); a $500,000 chipper IDIQ for Regions 5 & 6 (Feb 2026); a $500,000 miscellaneous heavy equipment IDIQ for Region 6 (Feb 2026); and three 2026 awards for refrigerated trailers, water handling for East Zone, and water handling for Region 6—all Total Small Business set-asides with ceilings through 2029–2030. These vehicles anchor the company's tactical position for wildland fire incident response procurement across the western Forest Service footprint.

Activity trajectory shows acceleration: awards climbed from 20 in 2022 to 41 in 2025, leveling to 26 awards year-to-date in 2026. Nineteen awards (combined potential value $3.5 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete, representing modest near-term recompete risk given the company's strong incumbent position across the Forest Service's core IDIQ vehicles. The portfolio operates predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides (the majority of delivery orders cite this designation), with a subset of full-and-open competitive orders. Category concentration is extreme: 182 of 184 awards fall under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression, making J. Franco Reforestation a single-mission vendor dependent on seasonal wildfire operations, prescribed burning, and reforestation spending by a single customer agency and its regional bureaucracy.