JNJ Contracting LLC

JNJ Contracting LLC, doing business as Y2 Fire Suppression, supplies wildland fire suppression equipment and water handling services to the U.S. Forest Service as a prime contractor on total-small-business-set-aside delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts across western U.S. regions. The company is a for-profit limited liability company based in La Grande, Oregon, with a corporate parent also registered as JNJ Contracting LLC and an alternate operating name, Hydrostorm. All fifty federal awards in the recent footprint are prime contracts; the vendor does not subcontract.

JNJ Contracting's customer base is highly concentrated within the Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 82 percent of awards by count, anchored by the Intermountain Region (Region 4) with seventeen awards valued at $799 thousand combined and the National Interagency Fire Center with ten awards valued at $1.4 million combined. Three additional Forest Service regional and functional offices round out the top five customers. The top two customers by potential value track the top two by award count, indicating that volume and dollar concentration align tightly around fire suppression operations in the western states.

JNJ Contracting holds three active indefinite-delivery contracts with the National Interagency Fire Center for water handling services across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9, running through May 2030. The largest IDV, awarded February 6, 2026, carries a $500 thousand ceiling on a total-small-business set-aside basis and is designated for emergency response operations including equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel. A second IDV awarded May 30, 2025 holds a $250 thousand ceiling through the same completion date. An earlier agreement from June 1, 2022, also structured at $250 thousand, expired May 30, 2025. These vehicles generate the majority of task order volume; eighteen delivery orders against the primary IDV (1202SB22T7339) carry $912 thousand in combined potential value, and seven orders against IDC 1284M819T7089 carry $410 thousand. Recent representative delivery orders include a $71,337.50 order from Forest Service Region 4 on August 27, 2026 for wildland fire suppression services in Boise, Idaho; a $76,500 order from Region 2 on July 4, 2026 for suppression services in Durango, Colorado; and a $121,734.37 order from Region 4 on September 25, 2024 for water handling support. Work is performed at multiple locations across western states including Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, California, and Wyoming.

Activity has been episodic. Eight awards in 2022, two in 2023, nine in 2024, one in 2025, and six in 2026 reflect seasonal and incident-driven procurement cycles typical of wildfire response. Eleven awards (22 percent of the total footprint) are set-aside under total-small-business, while thirty-nine orders carry no set-aside designation. Combined potential value across all fifty awards is $3.5 million, with $2 million obligated to date (57 percent). Nearly all work is classified under NAICS 541611 (Support Activities for Forestry), with one award under equipment-rental coding. The vendor's primary federal contracting vehicle is the Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement structure managed through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system, which permits optional use by the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, though award activity remains concentrated within the Forest Service.