BSA Environmental Services Inc.

BSA Environmental Services Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, provides specialized aquatic ecosystem analysis and laboratory testing services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing under small business set-asides on roughly 45% of its recent awards and full-and-open on the remainder. The company specializes in phytoplankton identification, enumeration, and biovolume analysis; cyanotoxin testing via ELISA and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; zooplankton assessment; and microscopic examination of water samples to support federal water resource management, environmental monitoring, and aquatic research programs.

BSA's customer base is concentrated in Interior and Army agencies. The top five funding customers by award count—the Army Corps of Engineers' Tulsa District (95 awards, $197 thousand), the Bureau of Reclamation (56 awards, $1.7 million), the USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (44 awards, $2.6 million), the Army Corps of Engineers (17 awards, $614 thousand), and NOAA (8 awards, $196 thousand)—account for 77% of recent awards. By potential value, however, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $9.9 million) dominates, anchored by a $5 million Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded in June 2026 running through June 2031. The Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center ranks second by dollars (8 awards, $3.1 million). This divergence between volume and dollars reflects the small task-order character of much of the USGS and Bureau of Reclamation work versus larger lump-sum vehicles with GSA and ERDC.

BSA operates through three primary contract vehicles: a $5 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (June 2026–June 2031), a $1.92 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with ERDC for biological sampling services (September 2025–September 2030), and single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the USGS ($249,999.99 through August 2028 for phytoplankton analyses excluding picoplankton, Total Small Business set-aside) and the Bureau of Reclamation ($460,000 through June 2027 for biological water sample analysis, no set-aside). Additionally, BSA sits on multiple Army Corps task order vehicles, including BPA W912BV12A0008 (105 task orders, $53 thousand combined potential value) and BPA INR10PA80231 (38 task orders, $25 thousand combined potential value). The 36 task orders placed against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule carry $5.1 million in combined potential value.

Recent representative work includes a $462,850 delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers (September 2024) for biological analyses under the GSA MAS; a $406,376 Total Small Business phytoplankton sample identification contract from the USGS (July 2024–March 2030, with four one-year option periods) covering identification and enumeration of 2,600 preserved samples from the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers; a $360,760 USGS phytoplankton identification and enumeration contract (June 2024–January 2028 covering options) for surface water samples from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay; a $235,500 USGS purchase order for cyanotoxin analysis via SPATT samplers and whole water samples (July 2024); and a $480,397.50 ERDC delivery order for geochemical and biological analyses under the GSA MAS (April 2023, closed September 2024). A sole-source $82,500 NOAA purchase order for microcystin analysis (October 2025–December 2026) cited BSA's exclusive possession of necessary standards, equipment, and a 15-year established collaborative relationship with the agency.

Activity has been volatile but generally active. The vendor recorded eight awards in 2022, five in 2023, twelve in 2024, eight in 2025, and four in 2026 to date. Across the portfolio, 286 total awards have been made since 2002, with combined potential value of $21.8 million and obligated dollars of $8.7 million (40% of potential value). Nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.3 million, creating moderate recompete exposure. The vendor's footprint spans NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services; 174 awards) and NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services; 100 awards), with PSC coding concentrated in water quality special studies (57 awards), other environmental services (29 awards), and professional support services (99 awards). BSA holds a single sub-award: a July 2024 sub-grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment under a water quality program.