Jl&S Contracting, Inc.

Jl&S Contracting, Inc., a minority-owned, SBA-certified 8(a) small disadvantaged business headquartered in Salem, Oregon, provides wildland fire suppression and all-hazard incident response services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service as a prime contractor across 44 awards spanning delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) under total small business set-asides and competes entirely within the 8(a) and small-business-set-aside categories; no full-and-open competition appears in the award record.

Jl&S Contracting's capability portfolio centers on Type 2 firefighter crews, chipper equipment, vehicles, personnel, and on-demand incident response support for wildland fire suppression and prescribed burn operations. Representative recent work includes a $538,429 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded July 21, 2024, by the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for Type 2 firefighter crews and equipment support; an $208,182 delivery order awarded August 9, 2026, for wildland fire and all-hazard incident response in Wenatchee, Washington; and a $229,822 delivery order awarded July 21, 2026, for similar services in Pendleton, Oregon. The vendor also holds two indefinite delivery contracts awarded in 2024 and 2026 with the National Interagency Fire Center — one for $500,000 (multiple-award total small business set-aside for chippers and crews covering Regions 5 and 6, running through May 28, 2029) and one for $250,000 (chippers for Regions 5 and 6, same term).

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 99% of combined potential value and 98% of awards. The Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) dominates with 37 awards valued at $6.7 million, while the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for 4 awards valued at $1.5 million. Task ordering flows through five indefinite delivery contracts, with the largest IDC (AG04H1B179561) supporting 11 task orders valued at $1.2 million combined.

Activity has remained episodic — two awards in 2021, one in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, and four in 2026 — with a combined potential value of $8.4 million and $4.9 million obligated to date. Only three awards with combined potential value of $443 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. All work is categorized under NAICS 541710 (Support Activities for Forestry), with primary PSC codes split between forest-range fire suppression/presuppression (26 awards) and tree thinning (16 awards). Place of performance spans the Pacific Northwest and national Forest Service regions, with administrative oversight through the Forest Service's regional and national fire centers.

JL&S Contracting provides a full service forestry and farm labor capability with emphasis on tree planting, thinning, sustainability, fire suppression and fuels reduction. We have 15+ years experience.