Asir LLC

Asir LLC, a small business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivers environmental consulting and fisheries research services to the federal government exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition, with a specialized focus on endangered aquatic species monitoring and life-sciences research.

Asir operates in environmental consulting (NAICS 541620) and related scientific and technical consulting, grounded in a contract portfolio split between endangered-species management and fisheries resource work. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on Rio Grande silvery minnow population monitoring, larval fish identification and monitoring, and reproductive spawning research. Representative recent awards include a $1.776 million total small business set-aside purchase order from the Bureau of Reclamation (award date September 11, 2026) for silvery minnow reproductive spawning and egg monitoring in the Middle Rio Grande through March 31, 2032; a $3.06 million total small business set-aside definitive contract with the Bureau of Reclamation (August 6, 2025) for monthly population sampling at twenty standard monitoring sites in the Middle Rio Grande, running through August 6, 2030 with four one-year option years; and a $3.015 million delivery order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (July 1, 2023) with the Bureau of Reclamation for larval fish monitoring and endangered species research services in Salt Lake City, Utah through June 30, 2028. Asir has also received federal grant funding: a research grant from DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 (March 31, 2022, completed February 28, 2024) to complete an illustrated morphological guide to larval and early juvenile catostomids from the Upper Klamath Basin, specifically shortnose sucker and lost river sucker.

Customer concentration is highly specialized and geographically narrow. The Bureau of Reclamation anchors 81% of Asir's award count with twenty-nine awards totaling $22.3 million combined potential value across a twenty-seven-year relationship (first award in source data, 1999). The remaining four customer agencies — GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($13 million from one MAS delivery order), the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Region ($16 thousand), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8, and Army Corps of Engineers — together account for less than 20% of awards. Asir places fourteen task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule ($9.6 million combined potential value), but the Bureau of Reclamation remains the effective single customer. Activity has been sparse in recent years: one award each in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026; only one award faces recompete in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $3 million).

SCI-reported invoicing across service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold totaled $4.3 million from FY2022 through FY2025, with roughly 6.8 FTEs delivered in FY2025 (the most recent full fiscal year in the SCI dataset). Asir's invoicing has grown incrementally — from $963 thousand across 5.1 FTEs in FY2022 to $1.5 million across 6.8 FTEs in FY2025. The vendor self-performs all reported service hours with zero subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable contracts. GSA Schedule labor offerings span fisheries technician through senior biostatistician roles, with rates ranging from $45.47 per hour (bachelor's-level technician, entry experience) to $227.34 per hour (PhD biostatistician, ten years' experience). Median government-paid rates on SCI work ran around $103 per hour, with the 90th percentile at $140 per hour. No security-cleared positions are offered. The vendor competes predominantly on total small business set-asides and exclusively in environmental and life-sciences consulting; federal exposure is rooted entirely in Reclamation's endangered-species compliance and water-resource stewardship obligations under the Endangered Species Act.

Freshwater fish researchers consisting of a team of professional fisheries biologists. Director, Steven P. Platania, has over 25 years of experience in aquatic habitat and ichthyological research.