J & L Roberts Investments, Inc.

J & L Roberts Investments, Inc., operating as Al's Saw Shop, a woman-owned small business based in Redding, California, supplies chainsaw repair services, lubricating oils, hand tools, and related equipment and supplies to the USDA Forest Service as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides, with all recent work flowing through two customer offices within the Department of Agriculture.

The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, self-certified as a Small Disadvantaged Business and Woman-Owned Small Business. Across nineteen federal awards spanning the past fourteen years, J & L Roberts has operated exclusively as a prime (100% of awards), with no subcontract or grant-recipient footprint. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $872 thousand, with $122 thousand obligated to date (14% realization rate). Recent work concentrates on two distinct product and service lines: petroluem lubricating oils and greases (nine awards under NAICS 324191) and outdoor power equipment and hand tools (five awards under NAICS 453310), alongside three awards for forestry support services (NAICS 115310) and chainsaw repair service delivery.

Customer concentration is absolute. The USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center anchors two awards worth $750 thousand in combined potential value — a total-small-business multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded February 6, 2026, with a $500 thousand ceiling running through April 24, 2029, and an earlier contract (April 24, 2024) with a $250 thousand ceiling for mobile chainsaw repair service trailers serving Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) and Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6). The USDA Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region (seventeen awards, $122 thousand combined potential value) represents the second customer. Together, these two Forest Service offices account for 100% of the vendor's recent award portfolio. Performance occurs in Redding, California and at dispatch centers within Forest Service Regions 5 and 6. A GSA Region 5 delivery order for $42,018.46 with ultimate completion July 26, 2025 represents the vendor's only non-USDA award in recent source data. Activity remains sparse — one award per year in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with award volume concentrated in earlier years (2016, 2017). The vendor does not hold a position on any government-wide or agency-wide indefinite-delivery vehicle; the sole parent vehicle is a USDA-issued IDC generating a single task order.