Cirrus Ecological Solutions, L.C.

Cirrus Ecological Solutions, L.C., a for-profit limited liability company based in Logan, Utah, provides environmental assessment, environmental impact statement, and NEPA compliance services to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and related agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under small-business set-asides and full-and-open vehicles.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated with the Forest Service. The top five funding customers by award count account for 60% of recent awards, led by the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (8 awards, $40.7 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service R4 Intermountain Region (9 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value). The Rocky Mountain Research Station dominates the potential-value ranking at $40.7 million across eight awards — 85% of the vendor's combined $47.8 million in potential value. Cirrus sits on two primary parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Rocky Mountain Research Station (11 task orders, $963 thousand combined potential value) and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (8 task orders, $601 thousand combined potential value).

Cirrus's capability portfolio centers on environmental analysis and planning for threatened-species management and forest management compliance. Representative recent work includes a $376,735 delivery order with Forest Service R4 for NEPA environmental assessment services on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest aerial herbicide application project (awarded September 2023, performance through June 2025); a $277,755 delivery order with Forest Service R2 for the Pactola Reservoir–Rapid Creek Watershed environmental assessment (awarded August 2023, performance through February 2025); and a $23,368 GSA Schedule delivery order with Forest Service Pacific West Area for threatened-species management including grizzly bear, Canada lynx, North American wolverine, and whitebark pine conservation (awarded September 2026, performance through January 2027). The vendor's NAICS concentration reflects this focus: 30 awards in Environmental Consulting Services and 5 in Support Activities for Forestry, with specialized PSC work in Special Studies/Analysis (environmental assessments and other), Natural Resources/Conservation, and related environmental services.

Cirrus operates with modest federal service-contract footprint. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $314 thousand across FY2023–FY2025, with roughly 0.2–0.3 FTEs delivered annually to the federal government on those reportable contracts. On SCI-captured prime contracts, government-paid rates ranged from median $214.93 per hour to a 90th percentile of $234.95 per hour, reflecting senior environmental and scientific specialist labor. GSA Schedule labor rates span $45.38–$161.70 per hour across 41 unique categories, with senior specialist roles (Senior Botanist, Senior Hydrologist, Senior Transportation Specialist) pricing at $88.87–$161.70 per hour; no security-cleared positions are offered. The vendor operates with zero subcontractor engagement — 100% of awards are prime, and the SCI data shows 0% sub-hours share on prime contracts, indicating Cirrus builds delivery internally rather than through subcontractor teams.

Award activity declined from 2020–2023 (three awards in 2020, declining to one in 2021 and one in 2022, recovering to four in 2023) with a single award recorded in 2026 in the available data. Only one award faces completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $23 thousand), presenting minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The vendor's combined obligated amount of $4.8 million (10% of potential value) reflects the gap between ceiling values on IDCs and task-order-level obligations, typical of indefinite-delivery instruments with multiple-year performance windows.

Environmental permitting and natural resource management: NEPA, planning, wildlife, botany, threatened and endangered species, range management, grazing, wetlands, watershed, water quality, recreation, visual resources, energy, socioeconomics, GIS.