Bio-West Inc.

Bio-West Inc., a small business environmental consulting firm headquartered in Logan, Utah, operates as a prime contractor (98% of awards) delivering ecological research, wildlife monitoring, endangered species studies, habitat restoration, and vegetation management services to federal natural-resource agencies under set-aside and full-and-open vehicles. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across its prime footprint, with SCI-reportable invoicing of approximately $3.5 million across FY2022–FY2025 and a federal-services workforce scale of roughly 1.7 to 3.3 FTEs annually on reportable contracts.

Bio-West's customer concentration is extreme and durable. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation dominates both award count and dollar value: 126 awards (66% of the 262-award portfolio) representing $125.4 million in combined potential value (70% of the $178.7 million total). The top five customers by award count account for 66% of awards, but the dollar rankings diverge sharply — the Bureau of Reclamation and GSA Federal Acquisition Service (via the Federal Supply Schedule) account for 82% of combined potential value, with the remaining customers fragmented across smaller grant and task-order work.

Bio-West holds three primary vehicle positions. A $50 million Environmental and Cultural Resources Services IDIQ awarded July 1, 2026, under Total Small Business set-aside, operates across fourteen states in the Reclamation and Army Corps footprint with administrative oversight split between Salt Lake City and Billings, Montana; the contract procures adaptive management, biological surveys, Clean Water Act compliance, endangered species support, GIS work, habitat mitigation and monitoring, and NEPA documentation under NAICS 541620. A $1 million single-award Integrated Vegetation Management IDIQ for Bonneville Unit Mitigation Lands runs through April 8, 2031. Bio-West also holds a $10 million Federal Supply Schedule contract (47QRAA25D002M) through December 5, 2029, carrying 79 labor categories spanning environmental analysts, fisheries biologists, hydrologists, wetland specialists, and GIS specialists, with hourly rates from $37.00 (clerical) through $242.31 (senior GIS specialists with master's degrees) and no security-cleared roles. Recent task-order activity under the Schedule includes a $1.53 million firm fixed-price delivery order (June 18, 2025) for Razorback Sucker and other endangered species studies in Lake Mead and Lake Powell through April 30, 2028.

Core work centers on endangered species monitoring and restoration in the Colorado River Basin. Recent named prime deliverables include a $1.606 million definitive contract (February 14, 2025) for Razorback Sucker population monitoring in Lake Mead, Arizona-Nevada, running through December 31, 2029 under Total Small Business set-aside; a $685.7 million MRG BO re-initiation delivery order (September 15, 2026) with completion April 30, 2029 in Albuquerque; a $152.9 thousand noxious weed survey delivery order (July 7, 2026) under the ECRS IDIQ in Mills, Wyoming; and multiple vegetation management and weed control task orders on the Jordan River and Provo River restoration projects. SCI-reported activity for FY2025 shows $302 thousand invoiced across 1.2 FTEs on the Lake Mead Razorback Sucker contract with no subcontractor engagement — Bio-West self-performed all work. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran around a median of $138.21/hr, with senior labor pricing through $266.80/hr at the 90th percentile.

Bio-West also operates as a subcontractor to larger primes on NEPA and environmental planning work. Named sub engagements include Environmental Analysis and Planning Services minimum-guarantee task orders with Cirrus Ecological Solutions, L.C. (September 6, 2023), where Bio-West provided management oversight, writing, fisheries biology, recreation specialty, and GIS work; Biological Assessments for the Post-2026 Lower Colorado River Reservoir Operational Strategies EIS under Environmental Management & Planning Solutions LLC (April 1, 2023); and earlier NEPA support as a team member under a separate prime. The sub footprint is minimal — only five sub awards, representing 2% of the portfolio.

Bio-West also holds a small federal grant footprint as a recipient under Cooperative Agreement vehicles with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Named grants include collaborative field-based fish survey work on the Muddy River (awarded September 1, 2023, completing September 30, 2025) to inform recovery actions on non-native species threats; development of captive-breeding habitat and life-history understanding for the Comal Springs Dryopid Beetle in Texas (awarded January 1, 2023, completing December 31, 2025); and contributions to a manual on wild collection and captive care of the Comal Springs Riffle Beetle (awarded April 4, 2022, completing September 24, 2022).

Activity has declined from recent highs: six awards in 2022 to two in 2025, with four awards in 2026 year-to-date. Only two awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete cliff exposure. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Bio-West self-performs all work — 0% average sub-hours share — indicating the company builds and staffs its own delivery teams rather than leaning on subcontractors. The vendor's 262-award history spans back to 1989, with obligated dollars of $46.4 million representing 26% of combined potential value, signaling a backlog of unexercised IDIQ capacity. The company competes across 23 distinct federal agencies but derives 70% of potential value from Reclamation work concentrated on Colorado River Basin and Bonneville Unit ecosystem management.