James River Equipment, Inc.

James River Equipment, Inc., doing business as John Deere Authorized Dealer, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Ashland, Virginia, supplies heavy equipment, parts, repair, and maintenance services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements. The vendor operates 100% as a prime across 143 awards spanning more than two decades of federal contracting history dating to October 2001, with no subcontract footprint.

The vendor's customer base is concentrated in natural-resource and facility-maintenance missions. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 42% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Army (16 awards), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (15 awards), and the United States Marine Corps (11 awards), with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region and the Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast Region each placing nine awards. The potential-value ranking diverges sharply, however. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 anchors 95% of combined potential value with a single $12 million Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded on August 19, 2025, for heavy equipment maintenance and repair across 12 states and territories (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) through August 2035. Individual purchase orders under this BPA are capped at $2,500 per call. The vendor's other high-dollar work includes a $240 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the Forest Service R8-Southern Region in September 2023 for an Energreen ILP Aspen brush cutter with 24-foot boom arm, and a $31.1 thousand purchase order from the same region in June 2024 for a cutting head attachment for an Energreen Aspen mowing machine.

James River Equipment's capability portfolio centers on mobile and shop-based repair and maintenance services for heavy equipment including backhoes, dozers, excavators, skid steers, loaders, and tractors, along with parts procurement and equipment sales. Licensed and certified technicians perform fluid and filtration maintenance, electronics repair, cooling system work, engine diagnostics, and parts replacement in compliance with existing equipment warranties. Recent representative work includes dozer repairs at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge for Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 ($3.6 thousand, January 2026), tractor air conditioning compressor replacement for Naval Sea Systems Command ($3.4 thousand, September 2025), and mower maintenance for Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg ($4.7 thousand, March 2026). The vendor competes on full-and-open purchase orders across defense, civilian, and interior agencies with no set-aside designation characterizing its prime footprint, though one $240 thousand Forest Service award carried a Total Small Business set-aside.

Activity has contracted recently — five awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, and two in 2025 through June 2026 — suggesting a portfolio shift toward fewer, larger task orders against the USFWS Region 4 BPA rather than discrete small purchase orders. Combined potential value across all 143 awards is $13.7 million, with $2.1 million obligated (15% drawn down). The parent vendor is listed as James River Equipment Incorporated (UEI UWVCM4RZ7988).