Jack Brown & Son, Inc.

Jack Brown & Son, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Adin, California, specializes in mechanical vegetation management, mechanical mastication, hazardous fuels reduction, and heavy equipment rental services for federal land management agencies, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on firm-fixed-price delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts with the U.S. Forest Service and related interagency fire management programs. The company competes under total small business set-asides across the majority of its prime footprint, with a smaller proportion of full-and-open awards for non-set-aside equipment rental work.

Jack Brown & Son's customer concentration is heavily concentrated within the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The top five funding agencies account for 54% of awards by count, dominated by the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) with 30 awards totaling $17.6 million in combined potential value. However, the dollar concentration is even more pronounced: the Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions accounts for $50 million in combined potential value through a single Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA award (April 1, 2026, no set-aside at the IDV level, through March 6, 2033). The next tiers include Forest Service headquarters ($5.2 million across 8 awards), the National Interagency Fire Center ($1.5 million across 6 awards), and Region 6 Pacific Northwest ($946 thousand across 7 awards). The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and the Bureau of Land Management appear in award counts but carry minimal dollar value. The top parent vehicles reflect this Forest Service dominance: an IDIQ vehicle (HAC018N00) carries 20 task orders worth $1.3 million, while an IDIQ (AG04U35204U340007) carries 12 task orders worth $5.7 million. Recent work includes a $412,768 total small business set-aside delivery order (April 29, 2024) for mechanical fuels treatment near the COTP Power Line in Adin, California, completion by May 30, 2025; a $156,625 total small business set-aside delivery order (May 31, 2023) for mechanical mastication of 175 acres in the Snell Mastication Phase 8 project in Adin, California; and two 2026 BPA calls under the LMIR contract for mastication of brush and small trees (June 22, 2026, $53,955; June 1, 2026, $90,072), both completion by end of 2026.

The vendor's portfolio spans 118 prime awards with $81.3 million in combined potential value, of which $12.5 million (15%) has been obligated. Activity has remained flat to modest—two awards per year in 2021 and 2022, three in 2023, four in 2024, and five recorded in 2026 to date—and represents a long-term relationship: the company's first recorded award dates to 1991. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $144 thousand), representing minimal recompete pressure in the near term. The portfolio concentrates on NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) equivalency work, with 91 awards under Support Activities for Forestry and 13 under Timber Tract Operations; PSC codes track to Natural Resources/Conservation categories, predominantly tree thinning (59 awards) and forest/range improvements (27 awards). Jack Brown & Son operates without any subcontract footprint in the source data—100% of its portfolio is prime work—and maintains indefinite delivery and BPA vehicle positions with the Forest Service that enable task-order issuance for specific projects as needs arise across California, Oregon, and Washington National Forests.