Abr, Inc.

Abr, Inc., doing business as ABR Inc., is an Alaska-based small business environmental consulting firm that operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering wildlife surveys, habitat modeling, wetland mapping, ecosystem assessment, and terrestrial and aquatic monitoring services to federal land and wildlife management agencies. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, competing predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements without SBA set-aside designations, though it holds a seat on NOAA's $8 billion ProTech 2.0 Oceans Domain multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract set aside for total small business.

ABR's customer base is concentrated within Department of the Interior bureaus, which account for 100% of the combined potential value across awards when the $8 billion NOAA vehicle is excluded. The Bureau of Land Management National Office anchors the largest single dollar amount ($22 million across 15 awards), while the BLM Alaska Region (33 awards, $1.5 million), National Park Service Alaska Region (32 awards, $3.5 million), and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (21 awards, $1.2 million) represent the highest volume of smaller awards. The top customer concentration by potential value is dominated by the NOAA ProTech 2.0 vehicle ($8 billion), awarded in April 2024 with performance through April 2029, followed by BLM National Office, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and NPS Alaska Region. Representative recent prime work includes a $1.388 million definitive contract from BLM National Office for lotic assessment, inventory, and monitoring (AIM) data collection across Alaskan field offices running through January 2030; a $1.598 million definitive contract for riparian and wetland AIM work under IRA funds through December 2029; a $478 thousand delivery order from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for comprehensive synthesis work under GSA Multiple Award Schedule; and a $282 thousand purchase order from Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station for Forest Inventory and Analysis plot work in the Wrangell-Ketchikan region.

ABR places 117 task orders under The Professional Services Schedule ($7.7 million combined potential value), 23 task orders under GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($6.4 million), and 11 task orders under an indefinite-delivery contract for terrestrial and aquatic AIM work ($5.1 million). The vendor also holds two single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements: a $4 million BPA with BLM for botanical services running through June 2029 and a $5 million BPA with Fish and Wildlife Service for wetland mapping services through July 2028. On GSA Schedule labor, ABR offers 23 active categories spanning research biologists, senior scientists, technicians, and project-management specialists at hourly rates from $50 to $167.36, with no security-cleared positions; the spectrum reflects field biologists and technical specialists (high school to bachelor's education at $50–$87/hr) through senior scientists with master's degrees ($132–$167/hr).

Recent activity shows four awards per year from 2022 through 2024, declining to four awards in 2025 and six in 2026, with only $163 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months—a minimal recompete cliff. On SCI-reported federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, ABR invoiced $3.3 million across fiscal years 2022–2025 (FY2022: $996 thousand across 2.9 FTEs; FY2023: $620 thousand across 1.5 FTEs; FY2024: $1.7 million across 4.6 FTEs; FY2025: zero reported), with median government-paid hourly rates around $178/hr and senior labor pricing through $617/hr on these contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, ABR performed zero percent of hours through subcontractors, indicating the vendor builds its own internal delivery teams for federal work. In its minimal subcontractor footprint (1% of recent awards), ABR serves as a sub-recipient on two federal grant awards: collaborative work on common eider tracking and habitat use under the North Pacific Research Board ($862,000 when matched across the team) and fractional cover modeling for the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment under Northern Arizona University, both focused on Alaskan and Arctic ecosystems.

ABR has been providing environmental consulting services under a triple-bottom-line philosophy since 1976. As a triple-bottom-line company, our range of client services and capabilities is a reflection of three measures of success-economic viability, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility. Our goal as a company is to provide clients with honest, robust ecological research and exceptional environmental consulting services while remaining true to the values that make ABR unique.