Joseph B Lillie

Joseph B Lillie, operating as J B L Trucking, a sole proprietorship headquartered in Coquille, Oregon, supplies heavy equipment and qualified operating personnel for wildland fire suppression, all-hazard incident response, and prescribed forestry work to federal agencies as a prime contractor under the total small business set-aside, with SBA Certified HUBZone designation.

J B L Trucking competes exclusively on total small business set-asides and full-and-open competitive awards. The vendor operates across two primary capability areas: field-deployed heavy equipment (chippers, dozers, excavators, dump trucks, utility trucks, and all-terrain vehicles) paired with qualified personnel, and incident support vehicles and services. Recent representative work includes a $253,500 purchase order from the Forest Service Region 6 for multiple self-loading chippers across named incidents (208 MF, Willamette Complex, Pyramid), a $827,688.87 delivery order for heavy equipment support in Springfield, Oregon completing September 27, 2025, and a $111,145.44 purchase order from Forest Service Region 4 for utility trucks supporting the Wapiti incident. A May 1, 2026 purchase order from an unnamed federal agency's Idaho Region for dozer equipment in Boise (no set-aside) valued at $71,105 reflects occasional non-set-aside work.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates the footprint across all three rankings — the Pacific Northwest Region (R6) and the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center together account for 60 awards and $18.1 million of the combined potential value, representing 97% of all awards. A single award to the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region ($71,105) and one to Forest Service Region 4 ($111,145) comprise the remaining 3%. By dollar value, the Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads with 15 awards carrying $13.3 million in combined potential value; R6 follows with 45 awards carrying $4.8 million.

J B L Trucking holds a portfolio of fifteen Indefinite Delivery Contracts structured as Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system. The five highest-activity vehicles are IDC 1204H124T7160 (12 task orders, $1.6 million), IDC 12569R24T7096 (11 task orders, $774,000), IDC 12569R24T7211 (8 task orders, $322,000), IDC 12569R25T7066 (3 task orders, $250,000), and IDC 12569R25T7560 (3 task orders, $392,000). The National Interagency Fire Center awarded J B L Trucking eight distinct multiple-award Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements between February 6, 2025 and May 5, 2025 with ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $7.5 million and performance periods extending through 2029 and 2030, including contracts for heavy equipment with water (Regions 3, 5, 6; $500,000 ceiling), the Heavy Equipment Task Force for Region 6 ($500,000 ceiling), chippers for Regions 5 and 6 ($750,000 and $250,000 ceilings), miscellaneous heavy equipment for Region 6 only ($750,000 ceiling), and a single-award incident support multipurpose off-highway vehicles contract ($7.5 million, completing December 31, 2026). The Forest Service Region 6 awarded three additional I-BPA contracts in July 2025 ranging from $250,000 to $250,000 ceiling for heavy equipment and water supply across the West Zone.

Activity trajectory shows moderate growth: 26 awards in 2024, 17 in 2025, and 19 in 2026 year-to-date. Awards obligated to date total $5 million, representing 27% of the combined potential value of $18.2 million across all 62 prime awards. Categorically, 55 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS), with 54 task orders coded to Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression (PSC). J B L Trucking competes solely as a prime; the source records zero subcontract work. All awards date from May 19, 2024 forward, indicating this is a relatively recent entrant to federal contracting, built entirely around the Forest Service's Virtual Incident Procurement system for emergency response and fire management mobilization across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain regions.