JA Media Group LLC

JA Media Group LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Chico, California, supplies audio/visual equipment rental, mobile communications units, satellite services, computer and printer equipment, and staffing support to the U.S. Forest Service and allied federal land-management agencies as a prime contractor competing in full-and-open procurement with no set-aside designations across 71 awards since 2021.

The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no sub-award footprint appears in the source data. JA Media Group specializes in temporary infrastructure and media production services tailored to wildfire response, incident management, and emergency operations across western Forest Service regions. Concrete representative work includes a $591,650 firm fixed-price purchase order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) for a mobile Type 3 communications unit and audio/visual equipment rental supporting the Willamette Complex incident (awarded August 6, 2024); a $770,847 award from Region 3 (Southwestern) for incident media packages covering the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires in New Mexico, including computer and printer equipment (April 2022); and a $369,150 Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) contract for audio/visual equipment rental in support of the Garnet incident in Clovis, California (August 2025). Smaller contracts span satellite services, mobile communications units (Type 1 and Type 3), clerical support, copy machine rentals, and computer equipment procurement.

Customer concentration is tightly clustered within the Forest Service's western regional structure. The top five customer agencies account for 92% of awards by count and 96% by potential value. Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) leads by both metrics with 25 awards worth $3.6 million combined potential value, followed by Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) with 15 awards worth $2.6 million and Region 3 (Southwestern) with 16 awards worth $1.7 million. Regions 4 and 2, plus unspecified Forest Service offices and the Bureau of Land Management, round out the active set. A single small-business set-aside award ($13,800 from Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas Region for video streaming services, April 2024) and one other small-business award ($7,500 from Region 5 for public listening meeting audio/visual support, November 2023) indicate nominal set-aside activity; the remainder are full-and-open competitive procurements.

Activity has accelerated materially. Awards totaled four in 2022, eleven in 2023, twenty-six in 2024, and twenty-one through mid-2025, reflecting deepening engagement with Forest Service incident operations during the peak wildfire season. The vendor does not sit on government-wide IDIQs, GWACs, or agency-wide blanket purchase agreements; all awards are discrete purchase orders issued directly by regional Forest Service contracting offices, typically with completion dates within thirty to ninety days. This transactional structure means the vendor operates on a series of spot buys rather than a parent vehicle platform, limiting pipeline visibility and requiring continuous pursuit of new incidents and operational requirements. Combined potential value stands at $9.2 million across seventy-one awards, with $9.2 million obligated (100% of potential value), signaling rapid invoice and spend-down cycles typical of emergency-response procurement.

The vendor's category footprint reflects its operational mission: 27 awards fall under NAICS 541500 (Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing), 19 under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry — fire suppression), 9 under trailer and RV rental, and 6 under office equipment rental. PSC coding mirrors this distribution, with Lease Or Rental of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Components (27 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (19 awards) dominating. No subcontractor relationships or teaming arrangements appear in the award record; JA Media Group executes all work as a sole prime without visible subordinate suppliers listed in the source material.