Johnson Brothers Firewood, LLC

Johnson Brothers Firewood, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Alexandria, Minnesota, supplies heavy forestry and fire-suppression equipment—including feller bunchers, log processors, dozers, excavators, and tractor plows—to the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service as a prime contractor. The company operates exclusively on direct federal awards (100% prime, zero subcontract work) across two USDA Forest Service customer sets, with no presence on government-wide vehicles or multi-agency IDIQs.

The vendor's customer footprint is entirely concentrated within the USDA Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center accounts for two awards with $750 thousand in combined potential value, while the Forest Service Region 9–Eastern Region (based in Duluth, Minnesota) accounts for four awards with $724 thousand in combined potential value, for a total of $1.5 million across six prime awards covering the full customer universe. Work is performed in Minnesota, primarily in the Superior National Forest and surrounding regions within the East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9).

Johnson Brothers Firewood holds two indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its federal footprint: a $250 thousand Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement (I-BPA) with the Forest Service awarded June 4, 2023, running through June 4, 2028, set aside for total small business; and a $500 thousand multiple-award IDC with the National Interagency Fire Center awarded February 6, 2026, also through June 4, 2028 and set aside for total small business. Both vehicles provide heavy equipment on an as-needed basis for fire suppression and all-hazard incident response, including equipment transportation, lodging, and personnel support. Recent task orders against these vehicles include a $295.8 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order (August 6, 2026) from the Forest Service Region 9 for a feller buncher, log processor, and logging truck to support forest management in Duluth; a $51.9 thousand purchase order (May 21, 2025) for a harvester and hazardous fuels reduction; and a $10.2 thousand purchase order (May 16, 2025) for a feller buncher. An earlier $296.4 thousand purchase order from September 15, 2022, covered mechanical hazardous fuels reduction services including cutting, piling, masticating, and crushing woody material across the Superior National Forest.

Award activity has been modest and intermittent—one award in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2025, and two in 2026—with no activity in 2024. The vendor has obligated $724 thousand of its $1.5 million combined potential value across all awards. Small Business Set-Aside and Total Small Business designations characterize the vendor's vehicle posture; no awards carry competitive full-and-open or 8(a) designations. The company's work spans NAICS codes for support activities for forestry and construction, mining, and forestry machinery equipment rental and leasing, with primary PSC alignment to forest-range fire suppression and presuppression services and equipment lease or rental.