J Young Enterprises LLC

J Young Enterprises LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Benton, Illinois, delivers facilities maintenance and grounds management services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a prime contractor, operating exclusively under total small business set-asides. The company is organized as a limited liability company and competes across a narrow set of customer relationships rather than across multiple federal agencies or vehicles.

J Young's entire portfolio concentrates on a single customer — the Department of the Army, specifically the Corps of Engineers and its Engineering District St. Louis — across ten awards carrying a combined potential value of $3 million, with $2.2 million obligated to date. The company's work centers on janitorial services, beach maintenance, vegetation removal, and specialized facility repairs at the Rend Lake recreation area in southern Illinois. Representative work includes a $1.83 million definitive contract awarded March 2022 for base-year cleaning and janitorial services at approximately 15 buildings, comfort stations, picnic shelters, and trails at the Rend Lake Project, running through March 2027 with four one-year option periods under NAICS 561720 (Janitorial Services); an $89,795 purchase order from the Corps for procurement and installation of two freezeless sanitary water hydrants at Rend Lake, completed November 2025; and multiple smaller BPA calls for beach maintenance and vegetation removal, including a $20,250 vault-pumping call and an $11,730 beach-maintenance call, both issued in 2026.

The company holds three active blanket purchase agreements with the Corps of Engineers. The largest is a $455,025 single-award BPA running through March 2028 for park attendant duties, fee collection, camping-reservation management, and visitor services at Rend Lake. A $250,000 multiple-award BPA established July 2026 covers maintenance and pumping services, with a $20,250 task order already issued for vault pumping by December 2026. A $125,000 single-award BPA running through May 2029 covers beach maintenance and vegetation removal and has generated multiple task orders since May 2024.

Activity has remained episodic — one award in 2021 and 2022, two in 2024, and three each in 2025 and 2026 — with no consistent growth trajectory. Two awards with a combined potential value of $1.9 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The source carries no sub-award activity; J Young operates as a prime only. Capability concentration across NAICS and PSC codes is narrow, with housekeeping-landscaping/groundskeeping services, custodial and janitorial work, and waste management and facilities support dominating the work mix. No work falls into construction, engineering, IT, or consulting domains — the vendor operates in the operational facilities-services tier of federal contracting at a single geographic location and single customer account.