J3 Contracting, Inc.

J3 Contracting, Inc., doing business as J3 Contracting, is a small business based in Milton-Freewater, Oregon that provides wildland firefighting equipment rental and operational support to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company rents and deploys Type 1, 3, 5, and 6 fire engines, water tenders, tactical water tenders, excavators, and associated contractor personnel for wildfire suppression, incident response, prescribed fire operations, and vegetation management across multiple western Forest Service regions.

J3 Contracting operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of 833 awards) across five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts, each valued at $250,000 and designated as total small business set-asides. These IDCs extend through 2028–2030 and cover water handling services for Forest Service Regions 3 (Southwestern) and 8, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest), Region 6 (Pacific Northwest), and heavy equipment for West Zone Regions 5 and 6. The contracts were awarded February 6, 2026, by the National Interagency Fire Center through the Virtual Incident Procurement system. Task orders issued against these vehicles range from under $5,000 to over $310,000, with firm fixed-price structures. Work is performed across Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which represents 90% of awards. The top five funding entities—Forest Service Region 6 Pacific Northwest (214 awards, $11.9 million), National Interagency Fire Center (159 awards, $10.2 million), Region 3 Southwestern (191 awards, $9.4 million), Region 5 Pacific Southwest (127 awards, $8.3 million), and Forest Service headquarters (61 awards, $4.4 million)—account for 93% of combined potential value. No significant secondary agency relationships exist; civilian federal wildland fire operations dominate the footprint.

The top parent vehicles are two Indefinite Delivery Contracts (1202SB22T7912 with 283 task orders at $15.9 million potential value and 12837119T7039 with 179 task orders at $9 million potential value) and three Blanket Purchase Agreements (AG8371B167029, 1204H119T7232, and AG04H1B167494) accounting for most recent awards. All task orders are firm fixed-price, non-set-aside delivery orders issued under pre-negotiated IDC and BPA terms, reflecting J3 Contracting's competitive standing for routine operational procurement once the parent vehicles are awarded.

Activity has been volatile. From 2022 through 2024, J3 Contracting received 122, 73, and 143 task orders respectively; in 2025, awards dropped to 69, and in 2026 through mid-June, only 16 orders were placed. This trajectory suggests the bulk of the initial four IDC awards issued February 2026 were realized by mid-year, with typical operational demand cycles ahead. Combined potential value across all 833 awards stands at $47.6 million, with $42.2 million obligated (89% execution rate).

Capability framing across the award base is narrowly specialized: 804 of 833 awards (96.5%) fall under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry), and 806 of 833 (96.8%) under PSC 3113 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression). All work involves rental or lease of equipment and personnel, with no indication of manufacturing, full-service firefighting crews, or non-forest-related service lines. J3 Contracting does not subcontract; subcontracts to other primes are absent from the source data.