Bio-West Inc.

Bio-West Inc., a for-profit environmental consulting firm based in Logan, Utah, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) delivering ecological research, wildlife monitoring, habitat management, and endangered species studies to federal natural-resource agencies under small-business set-asides and unrestricted competitive vehicles. The vendor holds a small business designation and competes under Total Small Business set-asides on most Bureau of Reclamation work and under no set-aside on GSA Schedule and Fish and Wildlife Service awards.

Bio-West's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in the Department of the Interior. The Bureau of Reclamation accounts for 66% of all recent awards (125 awards, $124.7 million combined potential value) and 70% of total potential dollars, with specialized work in Razorback Sucker population monitoring, integrated vegetation management, noxious weed survey, and habitat restoration across the Colorado River Basin and Bonneville Unit in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Wyoming. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 and Region 1 together account for $4.3 million in potential value across biological assessments, fish surveys, and endangered species habitat work. The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, and Department of the Army round out the active customer set, though these account for minimal dollar value. Across 23 total customer agencies, the top five fund 82% of combined potential value.

Bio-West's core capability work centers on endangered species monitoring and habitat management. Named representative contracts include a $1.61 million Total Small Business definitive contract (Feb 2025) with the Bureau of Reclamation for five-year Razorback Sucker population monitoring in Lake Mead through February 2030, with intensive larval, juvenile, and adult capture, marking, spawning site identification, and telemetry work; a $1.53 million delivery order (Jun 2025) on the GSA Schedule for Razorback Sucker and other endangered species studies in Lake Mead and Lake Powell through April 2028; and a $152 thousand Total Small Business delivery order (Jul 2026) under the ECRS IDIQ for noxious weed survey in Mills, Wyoming. Integrated vegetation management and invasive weed control work spans multiple delivery orders and IDIQs, with tasks on the Provo River Restoration Project, Bonneville Unit mitigation lands, and Jordan River corridors.

Bio-West holds three active parent vehicles. A $50 million Total Small Business ECRS IDIQ with the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded Jul 2026, maturing Jun 2031) covers environmental and cultural resource management services across 14 western states — adaptive management, biological surveys, Clean Water Act compliance, cultural resources archaeology, Endangered Species Act support, and habitat mitigation — with administrative oversight at the Upper Colorado Regional Office in Salt Lake City and the Missouri Basin Regional Office in Billings, Montana. A $1 million single-award IDIQ (awarded Jun 2026, through Apr 2031) with the Bureau of Reclamation covers integrated vegetation management on Bonneville Unit mitigation lands in central and northeastern Utah. A $10 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (awarded Dec 2024, through Dec 2029) under Special Item Numbers 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and OLM (Order Level Materials) carries 76 labor categories ranging from $37.00/hr (clerical) through $242.32/hr (senior GIS specialist with master's degree), with NEPA compliance, wildlife studies, wetland delineation, water quality analysis, and GIS services across domestic nationwide placement of performance.

Activity has declined over the past three years. Awards per year dropped from six in 2022 to three in 2026, though the two most recent awards (the $50 million ECRS IDIQ and $1 million Bonneville Unit IDIQ, both awarded in June–July 2026) substantially reset the vendor's recompete exposure. Only two awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) complete in the next twenty-four months, leaving Bio-West positioned defensively on its core IDIQ vehicles.

Bio-West received three cooperative-agreement grants from Fish and Wildlife Service: a September 2023 cooperative agreement for collaborative field-based fish survey of the Muddy River (non-native species impact assessment) through September 2025; a January 2023 cooperative agreement for Comal Springs Dryopid Beetle (endangered troglobitic beetle) habitat and life-history research in Texas through December 2025; and an April 2022 cooperative agreement for methods manual development on Comal Springs Riffle Beetle capture and captive care through September 2022.

As a subcontractor, Bio-West subcontracts to larger primes including Cirrus Ecological Solutions, L.C. (environmental analysis and planning services; management overview, writing, fisheries biology, recreation planning) and Environmental Management & Planning Solutions LLC (post-2026 Lower Colorado River operations EIS, biological assessments). Sub work accounts for 2% of the vendor's recent award count, and SCI data show zero sub-hours engagement across prime contracts — indicating Bio-West builds its own delivery teams on prime work.

SCI-reported invoicing for service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $2.6 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $1 million across 3.1 FTEs; FY2023: $1 million across 3.1 FTEs; FY2024: $534 thousand across 1.7 FTEs). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $138.21/hr, with the 10th percentile at $90.19/hr and the 90th percentile at $266.80/hr, reflecting a mix of junior technical staff, mid-level specialists, and senior subject-matter experts in environmental science and natural resource management. The SCI dataset represents a partial view of Bio-West's federal revenue; it excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, grant work, and any contracts below the $150,000 threshold.