Waggoner, Bernard L III

Bernard L. Waggoner III, doing business as BW3 Precision Consulting Worldwide, is a sole-proprietorship small disadvantaged business based in Maryville, Tennessee that delivers firearms training, explosives specialist support, and law enforcement instruction services exclusively to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a prime contractor under three multiple-award blanket purchase agreements.

BW3 Precision Consulting Worldwide operates 100% as a small-business prime on specialized instruction and technical consulting services. The vendor holds one primary set-aside posture across its footprint: individual BPA task orders predominantly carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, though the underlying BPA vehicles themselves carry no set-aside designation. The vendor operates under NAICS 611430 (Professional and Management Development Training) and 611699 (All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction), with all work classified under PSC Support—Professional: Other.

Customer concentration is absolute and singular. The vendor has served only the Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives across its entire award history, accounting for all 137 awards and $1.2 million in combined potential value. This concentration reflects a highly specialized, narrow market position—the vendor functions as a task-order extension for ATF's training and technical expertise gap-filling.

BW3 Precision Consulting Worldwide operates under three multiple-award BPAs with ATF. The primary vehicle, BPA DJA17AHDQS0238, generated 52 task orders valued at $212 thousand combined potential value. BPA 15A00019AAQA00161 produced 42 task orders at $265 thousand combined potential value. BPA 15A00022AAQA00052 generated 40 task orders at $265 thousand combined potential value. All work is performed in Maryville, Tennessee, with task orders issued on a firm fixed-price basis and performance periods typically spanning one to two weeks, with individual order values historically ranging from $2,500 to $17,000.

Activity has contracted materially. The vendor executed 20 awards in 2022 and 17 in 2023, then dropped to 1 in 2024 and 2 in 2025, with 4 awards in 2026 as of July. Representative recent work includes a $15,000 instructor services call awarded April 11, 2026; a $6,500 instructor services call awarded March 3, 2026; a $3,000 explosives specialist call awarded January 21, 2026; and a $6,500 K9 Basic Support call awarded August 23, 2025. The vendor has obligated $742 thousand across all awards (60% of combined potential value), indicating steady invoicing against the BPA backlog.

The vendor holds no subcontractor footprint and operates no parent contract vehicles beyond the three ATF BPAs. Capability scope includes explosives specialist consulting, post-blast analysis instruction, firearms training, K9 support, and performance-based information technology program support in service of ATF's regulatory, training, and law enforcement missions. No major subcontractors have been identified across the award history.