Jack Brown & Son, Inc.

Jack Brown & Son, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Adin, California, delivers mechanical vegetation management, hazardous fuels reduction, and heavy equipment rental services to the U.S. Forest Service and interagency fire management partners exclusively as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across indefinite-delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements.

The vendor's federal footprint centers narrowly on natural resources and forestry support. Jack Brown & Son operates across 119 prime awards totaling $82.2 million in combined potential value, with $12.8 million obligated to date (16% of ceiling). Core capability work spans mechanical mastication of hazardous fuels, shaded fuel break creation, vegetation treatment, and wildland fire equipment rental. Recent representative awards include a $412,768 total small business set-aside delivery order from USDA Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) in April 2024 for mechanical fuels treatment near the COTP Power Line in Adin, California; a $336,450 BPA call from Region 5 in September 2026 for precommercial thinning and mastication near Mt. Shasta; and a $156,625 delivery order from Region 5 in May 2023 for mechanical mastication services across 175 acres in the Snell Mastication Phase 8 project. All work is firm fixed-price, performed in California, Oregon, and Washington, with completion dates ranging through 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions dominates potential value (1 award, $50 million), anchored by Jack Brown & Son's April 2026 award of the $50 million LMIR (Land Management Integrated Resources) National BPA. When excluding that outlier IDV, the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) carries 31 awards worth $18 million combined potential value, followed by the Bureau of Land Management (9 awards) and Forest Service Region 6—Pacific Northwest (7 awards, $946 thousand). Together, these top customers account for 93% of combined potential value. Activity has been sparse but consistent—two awards in 2021 and 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, and six in 2026—with only three awards (combined potential value $480 thousand) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Jack Brown & Son holds multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles and BPAs with the Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center. The LMIR BPA (awarded April 1, 2026, ceiling $50 million, performance through March 6, 2033) is a multiple-award vehicle supporting landscape-scale forest management across the Western United States; Jack Brown & Son is issuing delivery orders from it directly. Additional IDCs include vehicles for heavy equipment rental in Regions 5 and 6 (two $500,000 ceilings awarded February 2026 by the National Interagency Fire Center, running through 2028–2029), a $250,000 VIPR Incident BPA for heavy equipment in Region 6 (May 2024–May 2029), and a $250,000 VIPR I-BPA for West Zone Regions 5 and 6 (June 2023–June 2028). The vendor's largest task-order vehicle by count is IDC HAC018N00 (20 task orders, $1.3 million combined value). The company has no subcontract footprint and operates exclusively as a prime on firm-fixed-price Forest Service delivery orders and IDIQs spanning natural resources work under NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and PSC codes concentrated on tree thinning, forest and range improvements, and fire suppression activities. Jack Brown & Son's award history with the Forest Service dates to 1991, positioning it as a long-standing incumbent in the agency's mechanical fuels reduction and vegetation management ecosystem.