JP Whelan Co

JP Whelan Co is a small business sole proprietorship based in Aurora, Colorado, specializing in the supply of wood utility poles for federal infrastructure projects. Registered in SAM.gov since 2003, the company has established itself as a key supplier to the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. While limited public information is available about the company's broader background, its federal contract history reveals a focused expertise in providing treated wood poles for electricity transmission and substation infrastructure.

The company has consistently provided Pacific Douglas fir wood poles treated with pentachlorophenol preservative to WAPA across multiple regions, including the Rocky Mountain, Upper Great Plains, and Desert Southwest areas. JP Whelan Co has been awarded numerous delivery orders supporting wood pole restocking, infrastructure replacement, and storm damage restoration for various WAPA facilities in states like Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Arizona. These contracts have ranged from $21,000 to over $440,000 in value, with no specific small business set-aside designations applied. The company serves as a prime contractor, delivering wood poles directly to substations, transmission lines, and storage facilities to support WAPA's critical electricity infrastructure maintenance and modernization efforts.

JP Whelan Co currently holds a significant Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with WAPA, awarded on March 8, 2022, with a total potential value of $11,066,227.22. This single-award IDIQ contract is designated as a total small business set-aside and runs through March 7, 2026. The contract covers wood utility pole procurement for WAPA's transmission infrastructure projects across three primary regions: Rocky Mountain, Desert Southwest, and Upper Great Plains. To date, WAPA has issued multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders under this IDIQ totaling over $3.2 million, focusing on pole replacement, stock replenishment, and infrastructure support services. The contract enables WAPA to efficiently obtain wood poles and related services to maintain and upgrade its high-voltage transmission network serving 15 central and western U.S. states.