Jackson Bryan

Jackson Bryan, operating as 5J Water Service, a self-certified woman-owned small disadvantaged business and sole proprietorship based in Caliente, Nevada, provides water handling services and equipment to support wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response across the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor on 51 recent federal awards worth $3 million in combined potential value.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Forest Service regional operations and the National Interagency Fire Center. The top five funding agencies account for 78% of recent awards by count and 85% of combined potential value: the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (16 awards, $512 thousand), Forest Service Region 4 Intermountain (8 awards, $380 thousand), the National Interagency Fire Center (7 awards, $1.2 million), Forest Service Region 3 Southwestern (5 awards, $210 thousand), and the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (3 awards, $275 thousand). The NIFC awards anchor the portfolio's dollar value despite representing only 7 of 51 awards—these are the two large indefinite delivery contracts Jackson Bryan holds for water handling across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, with a combined ceiling of $750 thousand and performance extending through May 2030. Individual task orders drawn against these IDCs and regional BPAs typically range from $2,410 to $103 thousand.

Activity has grown substantially, from 9 awards in 2022 to 15 in 2025, with 10 awards captured in 2026 to date. Most recent awards are delivery orders for water tender vehicles and tactical water support issued by the Intermountain, Southwestern, and Northern Regions in August and July 2026, and purchase orders from the BLM Idaho Region spanning June through August 2026 for Type 1 and Type 2 water tender vehicles and potable water delivery. The vendor operates primarily under Total Small Business set-asides on the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) platform and BLM blanket purchase agreements; a subset of work, particularly the BLM Idaho orders, carries no set-aside designation.

Jackson Bryan's capability portfolio concentrates entirely on water handling logistics—water tender vehicles (Type 1 and Type 2), potable water delivery, and field water support services mobilized to incident locations across the western United States (California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming). All 51 prime awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and primary PSC categories for forest-range fire suppression (35 awards) and fire-fighting equipment (16 awards). The two largest parent vehicles are IDIQ 1202SB22T7624 held with the National Interagency Fire Center (13 task orders, $549 thousand) and IDIQ 1284M819T7088 with the Forest Service's regional programs (10 task orders, $317 thousand). The vendor's two multi-region IDCs awarded in June 2022 and May 2025 authorize provision of water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel accommodating up to 16-hour daily operational shifts; these contracts extend optional-use authority to the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs for emergency response coordination across regions.

Obligated dollars to date total $1.7 million of the $3 million combined potential value (58% burn rate), indicating steady invoicing against active delivery orders rather than speculative pipeline accumulation.