Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc.

Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc., a Cincinnati-based SBA-certified women-owned small business, delivers threatened and endangered species surveys, archaeological and cultural resource assessments, and environmental compliance support to federal land management and defense agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). ESI operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS codes 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), competing predominantly under total small business and woman-owned small business set-asides across its prime footprint.

Customer concentration is acute and skews toward the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Forest Service. The top five funding entities account for 93% of combined potential value, anchored by the Army Corps of Engineers (49 awards, $47.5 million combined potential value) and the Forest Service's Washington Office acquisitions function ($50 million single-award LMIR BPA). The Forest Service's Southern Region (R8) and Eastern Region (R9) together represent 50 awards and $44.1 million combined potential value. This concentration reflects ESI's specialization in mussel surveys, bat acoustic analysis and mist netting, Phase I and Phase II archaeological field surveys, heritage resource inventories, and NEPA compliance support on federal lands. Recent representative prime work includes a $778,307 Forest Service BPA call for Hurricane Helene recovery archaeological surveys across 30,000 acres in North Carolina (awarded December 2025), a $2.577 million Forest Service BPA call for Hurricane Helene project management and professional services in North Carolina running through June 2031 (awarded June 2026), a $255,000 Army purchase order for bat survey monitoring at Fort Drum, New York (awarded May 2025), and a $160,000 Marine Corps purchase order for bat survey and monitoring at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina with options through April 2030 (awarded March 2025).

ESI holds five named parent vehicles totaling $60.9 million in ceiling value. The Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR), a $50 million single-award Forest Service vehicle with completion through March 2033, anchors the footprint—20 task orders under LMIR carry $6.6 million combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers' single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract W912EK16D0010 ($925 thousand combined potential value across 24 task orders) and W912EK22D0009 ($1.1 million across 22 task orders) drive repeated ordering for mussel surveys and bat acoustic analysis in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. ESI also holds a $1.7 million single-award IDIQ with the Corps for natural resource investigations in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (woman-owned small business set-aside, completion April 2027), a $1 million Army ecological services BPA for the Mississippi River Basin (awarded May 2025, completion May 2030), a $900,000 Forest Service Region 9 historic preservation services BPA (completion February 2028), and a $7.5 million multiple-award Forest Service R8 archaeological and cultural heritage services BPA (completion December 2026).

Activity has remained steady at 16–20 awards annually from 2022 through 2025, with nine awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date; combined potential value across all 170 awards stands at $160.1 million, with $18.8 million (12%) obligated to date. Within the next twenty-four months, twelve awards (combined potential value $2.2 million) reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoicing captures only $464 thousand across FY2024 and FY2025 (4.6 FTEs in FY2024, zero recorded in FY2025); SCI data are a narrow subset of ESI's federal services footprint and exclude goods, grants, and non-reportable micro-purchases. On SCI-reportable service contracts, government-paid median hourly rates ran around $24.33/hr, with senior labor pricing through $43.79/hr. ESI delivers these services without routine subcontractor engagement (0% sub-hours share on SCI prime records).

ESI holds four federal grant awards as a prime recipient with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Three are project grants for rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) survey and restoration work across the Great Lakes watershed—region-spanning endangered species surveys and habitat modeling in USFWS Regions 3 and 5 (completion December 2025, originally awarded May 2022; FY23 award, completion December 2025; and FY22 award, completion December 2024). A fourth cooperative agreement with USFWS Region 4 covers Fort Jackson Military Installation bat acoustic surveys and habitat assessments supporting endangered species and timber thinning compliance (awarded May 2024, completion October 2026). A second cooperative agreement with USFWS Region 5 covers mussel surveys, relocation, and NEPA/ESA compliance documentation for well-plugging operations in the Ohio River (awarded April 2024, completion December 2025).

ESI's subcontract footprint is minimal—only one named sub-award in the source, a September 2025 delivery order under HDR Engineering for scoping and design work on a National Park Service project. The vendor operates as a front-line prime delivering specialized field survey capabilities rather than as a feeder to larger primes.

With more than 21 years of experience providing exceptional cultural and natural resource services, Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc. seamlessly merges real-world field expertise, scientific acumen, and comprehensive knowledge of the regulatory framework to effectively assist clients balance societal needs with environmental conservation and enhancement of natural and cultural assets.