J W Morrison, Inc.

J W Morrison, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Laytonville, California, supplies heavy equipment and related services for wildfire suppression, disaster recovery, and hazard mitigation to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-aside vehicles. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation operating under NAICS 541512 (Support Activities for Forestry) with a narrow customer footprint: 100% of its $5 million in combined potential value derives from Department of Agriculture Forest Service programs, with 70% anchored to the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) and 46% of the combined potential value obligated to date.

J W Morrison specializes in delivering excavators, dozers, mulchers, road graders, feller bunchers, and skidders to support emergency response and prescribed project work on a firm fixed-price, as-needed basis. Representative prime work includes a $201,509.20 total small business set-aside delivery order from Region 5 in September 2025 for heavy equipment procurement in Clovis, California; a $120,825 firm fixed-price delivery order from Region 5 in August 2023 for equipment and services in Eureka, California supporting the 2022 Lightning Complex fire recovery; a $109,591 delivery order in August 2022 for an excavator type 2 supporting wildfire recovery efforts; and multiple smaller orders valued between $15,000 and $103,000 issued throughout 2023 and 2024 for emergency response operations across Regions 5 and 6.

The vendor holds four active indefinite delivery contracts totaling $2.5 million in combined ceiling value, all designated as total small business set-asides and issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the Forest Service. The primary vehicle is an indefinite delivery contract (129J6124T7166) with a $250,000 ceiling through June 2029, against which 16 task orders carrying $963,000 in combined potential value have been placed. A second vehicle (12569R23T7679) carries a $750,000 ceiling extending through June 2028, with 9 task orders valued at $503,000. Two additional smaller IDVs with $250,000 ceilings each round out the portfolio. The vendor also operates under two blanket purchase agreements, one carrying seven task orders worth $268,000.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2024 with fifteen awards, compared to two in 2023 and five in 2022, followed by eight awards in 2025 and four through mid-2026. Eight awards (combined potential value $424,000 to $963,000 across vehicle portfolios) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure in the wildfire response and forestry equipment supply category. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Place of performance spans California communities including Grass Valley, Eureka, Redding, Clovis, Oroville, and Yreka, with delivery orders issued for immediate response to active fire suppression and recovery incidents, including recovery work extending from the 2022 Lightning Complex fire.

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