Copperhead Environmental Consulting Inc.

Copperhead Environmental Consulting Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Paint Lick, Kentucky, operates as a prime contractor providing environmental consulting, NEPA documentation, biological surveys, natural resource management, and invasive species control to federal land management agencies. The company competes predominantly full-and-open but carries Total Small Business set-aside status on a significant share of awards, particularly through blanket purchase agreements with the Forest Service and Department of Interior.

The vendor's customer footprint centers on the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Department of Interior. The top five funding entities by award count account for 64% of recent awards, led by Forest Service Region 8-Southern (89 awards, $21.3 million combined potential value) and Region 9-Eastern (22 awards, $23.1 million), followed by the Army Corps of Engineers (8 awards, $209 thousand), BLM National Office (7 awards, $76.4 million), and ERDC (6 awards, $199 thousand). By dollar magnitude, the rankings shift: BLM National Office dominates at $76.4 million across 7 awards, with Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions at $50.4 million across 3 awards, creating strong concentration in the $120 million range across three major customers. The remaining customers and task orders span 32 distinct federal agencies, including the National Park Service, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Justice, and the Air Force, indicating broad but uneven geographic and functional reach.

Copperhead holds three major parent vehicles. The Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA, a $50 million single-award vehicle awarded by Forest Service Acquisitions in March 2023 and extending through March 2033, has generated 14 task orders worth $310 thousand in combined potential value. The Department of Interior BLM National Planning and NEPA Services BPA, a $30 million vehicle established in August 2023 on the Multiple Award Schedule through August 2028, has issued task orders including a $558,415.81 California City Transmission Project call and $82,261.12 Rock Springs RMPA/EA call. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule has generated 36 task orders with $79.5 million in combined potential value, spanning delivery orders for watershed restoration, environmental assessments, biological surveys, and trail management across all regions. A fourth vehicle — the National Travel Management Services BPA, a $40 million Total Small Business set-aside on the GSA Schedule awarded September 2026 — establishes new capacity for route inventory, evaluation, and planning work across federal land management jurisdictions through 2031.

Representative work includes a $1.896 million FEMA Region 8 delivery order for Hurricane Helene recovery project management (awarded June 2026, completion June 2031); a $678,545 Forest Service Region 9 purchase order for non-native invasive species and timber stand improvement treatments at Shawnee National Forest (awarded September 2024, completion December 2026); a $655,839 Forest Service Region 8 BPA call for NEPA services in the Southern Appalachian zone (September 2022–July 2023); and a federal grant recipient award from DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 for Indiana bat and gray bat conservation research spanning Tennessee and Mississippi (October 2023–September 2027). The vendor also holds a $166,455.50 time-and-materials purchase order from the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division for expert witness services through February 2028.

Activity has declined modestly: 18 awards in 2022, peaking at 22 in 2023, then dropping to 11 in 2024, 6 in 2025, and 7 in 2026 (year-to-date September). Twelve awards with combined potential value of $8.8 million reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure concentrated in Forest Service regional contracts and MAS task orders. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $656 thousand in FY2023 (1.8 FTEs) and $45 thousand in FY2024 (0.1 FTEs), reflecting the vendor's reliance on task orders below or near the SCI reporting floor and the highly variable, project-based nature of federal land management work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ranged from $34.91/hr at the tenth percentile to $174.56/hr median, with senior scientist roles commanding $177.43/hr at the ninety-first percentile. GSA Schedule rates span from $57.45/hr (technician) to $224.43/hr (principal scientist) across 19 active labor categories requiring education from high school through bachelor's degree; no security-clearance roles are offered.

The vendor operates nearly entirely as a prime contractor (99% of 207 awards), with only 2 named sub awards (1% share) — a Nolin Lake Capacity Study aerial photography sub to CDM Federal Programs Corporation (July 2025) and a bat surveys sub to EA Engineering (November 2023). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs performed 7% of contractor hours on average, with 1 named subcontractor reported, indicating the vendor builds most delivery teams internally. Federal grant work is minimal: one recipient award from DOI Fish and Wildlife for endangered bat research. The awards footprint skews heavily toward environmental consulting (61 awards) and support activities for forestry (54 awards) under NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), with 67 awards categorized as other scientific and technical consulting. Top PSC categories include natural resources/conservation services (36 awards), special studies in chemical/biological and endangered species analysis (33 and 28 awards respectively), environmental assessments (24), and other environmental services (21).

Copperhead Consulting provides professional environmental research and environmental compliance services to private corporations and government agencies.