Thomas Refuse Service Inc.

Thomas Refuse Service Inc., a small for-profit business based in Lake Isabella, California, provides trash collection, portable toilet rentals, vault and septic tank pumping, and emergency sanitation services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor exclusively. The company competes under total small business set-asides on recurring work and holds no subcontract footprint.

Thomas Refuse Service Inc. derives 65% of its recent award count from two customer agencies: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (20 awards, $8.5 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region (11 awards, $871 thousand combined potential value). Dollar concentration is sharper — the $7.5 million National Interagency Fire Center Indefinite Delivery Contract for nationwide wildland fire response sanitation services accounts for 42% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio, while the Forest Service Regional work adds another 48%, leaving the BLM work at roughly 5% of dollars despite matching the Forest Service in award count. The company serves ten distinct federal agencies, but the split between Forest Service and BLM work reflects geographic and operational focus on California public lands and recreation areas.

Thomas Refuse Service Inc. holds two anchor indefinite delivery vehicles. The $7.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (awarded September 2022, running through September 2027) covers regional vault toilet and septic tank pumping services across the Southern Sierra Zone, supporting Sequoia National Forest and Kern River Ranger District sites. The $7.5 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Interagency Fire Center (awarded July 2022, through June 2027 with extension options) enables task orders for portable toilets, wheelchair-accessible units, and handwashing stations during wildland fire and all-hazard incidents nationwide; the contract covers performance coordination from Lakewood, Colorado, with services deployed across the continental United States to the Forest Service, BLM, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Recent representative awards include a $158,884 five-year purchase order from the BLM California Region (awarded June 2026, through May 2031) for restroom maintenance and portable toilet services in the Kern River Valley with vault toilet cleanings, emergency services, and seven-day-per-week availability; a $270,997 purchase order from the BLM California Region (awarded March 2024, through March 2029) for trash collection at the Keysville Special Recreation Management Area; and a $65,624 BPA call from the Forest Service for septic pumping services in the Kern River Ranger District (awarded July 2025, through July 2026).

Activity has been sparse and uneven — two awards in 2026, three in 2025, two in 2024, four in 2022, and three in 2021 — with only one award facing completion in the next twenty-four months (potential value $66 thousand). The company's portfolio sits at $17.7 million combined potential value against $2.7 million in obligated dollars (15% draw-down rate), reflecting the substantial ceiling value of the two large IDVs against light recent task-order activity. The bulk of work is categorized under NAICS 562910 (Solid Waste Collection) and 562991 (Septic Tank and Related Services), with PSC coding split between Housekeeping Trash/Garbage Collection (40 awards) and Housekeeping Waste Treatment/Storage (10 awards), anchoring the vendor to routine sanitation operations on federal lands rather than specialized or high-frequency call-down.