James Jones

James Jones, a for-profit sole proprietorship based in Fort Jones, California, provides vehicle-with-driver services for fire suppression and emergency response operations to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service as a small-business prime contractor, with no subcontract activity and no prior federal contract vehicle holdings.

James Jones operates entirely within the small-business set-aside category across all three recent awards. The vendor's entire customer base is the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, split between the National Interagency Fire Center (two awards, $500 thousand combined potential value) and the R5-Pacific Southwest Region (one award, $20 thousand). All work falls under NAICS All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (490999) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (D321).

The vendor holds two indefinite delivery contracts, both issued by the National Interagency Fire Center. The first IDC, awarded June 8, 2023, carries a $250 thousand ceiling and runs through June 8, 2028; James Jones executed an initial delivery order under this contract on August 21, 2023, valued at $20,493.36, for vehicle-with-driver services in the Eureka, California area with a firm fixed price and a completion date of September 21, 2023. The second IDC, awarded February 6, 2026, also carries a $250 thousand ceiling through June 8, 2028, under the VIPR I-BPA (Interagency Blanket Purchase Agreement) for Regions 5 and 6 West Zone; this multiple-award small-business set-aside contract authorizes task orders for dedicated vehicle transportation and driver support across specified geographic regions on a blanket-purchase basis. Combined obligated dollars across all awards are $20 thousand, representing 4 percent of the $520 thousand combined potential value, indicating substantial unobligated capacity under the two IDCs. Activity has been sparse—two awards in 2023, one in 2026—with no subcontracting activity and no presence on parent vehicles beyond the two IDCs named above.