ERO Resources Corporation

ERO Resources Corporation, doing business as ERO Resources Corp, is a woman-owned small business environmental consulting firm headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, that delivers cultural resource management, archaeological surveys, environmental assessment, and NEPA compliance services to federal land management agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards). The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across its federal footprint, with over 35 years of specialized experience in federal compliance work for the Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and natural resources agencies.

ERO Resources' customer concentration centers on federal land management. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 47% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office (47 awards, $4.3 million combined potential value) and the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (46 awards, $149 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (27 awards, $10.1 million), Forest Service Eastern Region (22 awards, $19.5 million), and the National Park Service Intermountain Region (21 awards, $1.7 million). The potential-value ranking diverges markedly — the top five by dollars are anchored by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (4 awards, $30.1 million combined potential value), GSA Federal Acquisition Service (3 awards, $21.1 million), Forest Service Eastern Region, Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, and National Park Service National Office. The Bureau of Reclamation's concentration on fewer awards with much higher ceiling values reflects larger design and engineering delivery orders that sit outside ERO's core cultural resource portfolio; the Forest Service and National Park Service dominate the volume of actual cultural resource task orders.

Recent capability work spans archaeological inventories, heritage resource surveys, Section 106 NHPA reviews, cultural clearance, NEPA environmental assessments, and endangered species population studies. Representative recent prime awards include a $352,570 BPA call from Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for archaeological survey work under the WRNF FY26 contract (September 2026), a $354,730 BPA call from Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for PSO content analysis supporting Land Management Plan revisions at Blues Mountains (September 2026), a $305,220 BPA call from Forest Service Idaho Region for cultural class II inventory work at Dryfork, Pea Ridge, and Tin Can (September 2026), a $675,549 delivery order from National Park Service Intermountain Region for archaeological inventory of fuel treatment projects at Rocky Mountain National Park (September 2022), and a $806,657 delivery order from National Park Service for environmental studies and design work at GRTE 333988 (June 2024). Smaller awards include the $95,359 National Park Service delivery order for wetland delineation and statement of findings at Grand Teton National Park (June 2026) and numerous $10,000–$50,000 cultural clearance and inventory BPA calls from Forest Service regions.

ERO Resources holds two primary federal contract vehicles. The company's $7 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2) runs through March 31, 2027 and provides on-call cultural resource surveys across Colorado; it has generated 27 task orders with $10.1 million combined potential value to date. A newly awarded $50 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with USDA Forest Service for Land Management Integrated Resources Services nationwide (effective May 15, 2026 through March 6, 2033) expands scope to include professional services, natural resources restoration, engineering, project management, inspection, and data management across United States work locations. Both are set aside for total small business. The company also holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (labor rates $43–$197 per hour) that has generated 199 task orders with $26.6 million combined potential value; this vehicle anchors delivery orders across the National Park Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Forest Service Eastern Region, and other civilian agencies. Additional parent vehicles include an indefinite delivery contract DTFH6802D00004 (46 task orders, $1.7 million), the Professional Services Schedule (28 task orders, $667 thousand), and multiple Forest Service regional BPAs.

Activity has fluctuated year to year — 14 awards in 2022, declining to 5 in 2025, then rising to 15 in 2026 — with 16 awards (combined potential value $4.1 million) completing in the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The company's NAICS footprint reflects the cultural resource and environmental assessment specialty: Environmental Consulting Services (223 awards), Engineering Services (70 awards), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (18 awards), and Support Activities for Forestry (10 awards). PSC concentration aligns with scope — Special Studies/Analysis Environmental Assessments (105 awards), Other Environmental Services (45 awards), Special Studies/Analysis Archeological/Paleontological (40 awards), and Architect and Engineering General categories (74 awards combined).

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows $2.8 million in invoiced federal service-contract revenue across FY2023–FY2025 (prime only, above the $150,000 reporting threshold), with $1.3 million invoiced in FY2025 against 1.2 FTEs. This SCI snapshot reflects only a portion of ERO's federal service-contract revenue and excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, and non-federal work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ran a median of $174.32 per hour, with rates ranging from $81.85 per hour for entry-level cultural resources technician roles (bachelor's degree, no experience required) through $221.16 per hour for subject matter experts (bachelor's degree, 10 years experience). The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 16 categories from cultural resources technician through senior specialist and project principal roles, all requiring a bachelor's degree minimum and none requiring security clearance. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, ERO performed all contractor hours in-house with zero subcontractor engagement.

ERO operates as a subcontractor on approximately 1% of its award count — three sub-awards issued since 2024 under primes Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and HDR Engineering, Inc., supporting road and bridge design work in New Mexico under Federal Lands Access Program contracts. This minimal sub engagement reflects the company's positioning as a specialized cultural resource and environmental assessment prime for federal land management agencies rather than as a capacity component of larger engineering or construction firms.

Environmental consultants, providing natural resource investigations and management, water resource analyses, hazardous site investigations and remediation, cultural resource inventories, NEPA compliance, and GIS support.