Cole Ecological Inc.

Cole Ecological Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, delivers specialized ecological consulting and invertebrate taxonomy analysis services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards), operating exclusively on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its footprint.

Cole Ecological's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Alaska Region accounts for 15 of 17 total awards (88% of awards) and $707 thousand of the $800 thousand combined potential value across the entire portfolio. The remaining two awards split between the National Park Service Pacific West Region ($93 thousand) and the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water. Cole Ecological operates exclusively under two National Park Service Blanket Purchase Agreements in Alaska: a single-award $250 thousand CAKN Invertebrate Analysis BPA running through September 15, 2029 (awarded September 3, 2024), which has generated nine BPA calls totaling $79 thousand in combined potential value, and a second BPA vehicle generating three task orders and $82 thousand. Representative recent work includes a $66 thousand Invertebrate Analysis BPA call from NPS Alaska Region (awarded September 2, 2025, completion May 31, 2027) for taxonomic identification and analysis of aquatic macroinvertebrate samples supporting freshwater ecosystem monitoring; a $16.6 thousand BPA call for similar invertebrate taxonomy services (awarded November 3, 2021, completion November 2, 2022); and a $7 thousand BPA call (awarded May 27, 2026, completion May 26, 2027) for the same ecological consulting scope. Capability work centers on aquatic macroinvertebrate identification, analysis, and taxonomic consulting to support National Park Service conservation and resource-management programs across Alaska's national parks, preserves, and monuments, with place of performance in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Activity has been sparse and variable — one award in 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with two awards (combined potential value $73 thousand) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Cole Ecological serves as a subcontractor to Tetra Tech, Inc., performing laboratory work and quality-assurance services on sample analysis as part of an NRSA quality-assurance project (sub-award date November 21, 2023). The vendor's portfolio is categorized primarily under NAICS 541380 (Testing Laboratories and Services), with work classified under PSC Special Studies/Analysis codes for scientific data and natural resource analysis. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $339 thousand (42% of combined potential value), indicating partial billing against available ceiling capacity.