Gulf South Research Corp

Gulf South Research Corp, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based women-owned small business, delivers environmental consulting, natural resource management, and ecological services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), operating under SBA certification as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). The company competes across both set-aside and full-and-open procurements, with recurring work under small-business set-asides on habitat and invasive species management vehicles and competitive awards from agencies including Customs and Border Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Gulf South's customer base concentrates heavily on defense and military installation support. Naval Facilities Engineering Command anchors the portfolio by dollar value at $275.3 million across 81 awards, while the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth leads by award count at 321 awards valued at $128.3 million combined. The Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center ranks second by dollars at $139.7 million across 11 awards. These three customer agencies account for approximately 71% of total potential value. Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection contributes $87 million across 65 awards, focused on border-security environmental monitoring and construction support. The Department of the Interior, Army Corps of Engineers (headquarters), and Department of the Navy Installations Command round out the top tier. Over 1,100 total awards span 74 distinct customer agencies, reflecting broad federal environmental services penetration.

Gulf South holds three major parent vehicles anchoring its federal footprint. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command's $98.5 million Habitat and Invasive Species Services IDIQ (Total Small Business set-aside, through March 2032) covers habitat restoration, invasive species control, erosion management, and endangered species surveys across six Southwestern states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah), with approximately 72 task orders issued to date executing work at Camp Pendleton, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, and other installations. The Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's $49 million Cultural and Environmental Resources Services MATOC (Total Small Business set-aside, expires September 2027) supports environmental assessments, biological monitoring, cultural resource studies, and aquatic resource monitoring, with task orders for juvenile green sturgeon monitoring ($1.35 million through August 2029), fish tagging, fish entrainment monitoring, and water quality assessments at dredge sites. The Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District awarded Gulf South a $45 million WOSB IDIQ (through March 2029) for environmental consulting services supporting projects within the Seattle District's jurisdiction. Additionally, Gulf South holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule positions and maintains task order relationships against IDIQ vehicles such as DACA6300D0004 (114 task orders, $247 thousand), N6945012D0073 (72 task orders, $3.9 million), and W9126G09D0067 (71 task orders, $15.1 million). The Professional Services Schedule carries 70 task orders valued at $163.7 million.

Activity trajectory shows growth from 13 awards in 2022 to a high of 21 in 2025, with 16 awards recorded in 2026 (through September). Thirty-four awards totaling $59.2 million combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure and renewal opportunity. Gulf South's award portfolio centers on environmental consulting services (619 awards), other environmental services (372 awards via PSC coding), and engineering services (104 awards). Recurring work includes tactical infrastructure environmental assessment and monitoring for CBP border operations (roughly $87 million in recent awards), habitat management and invasive species control for Navy and Marine Corps installations (approximately $50–$275 million depending on vehicle), and cultural and natural resource compliance support for Army Corps projects (approximately $49 million active MATOC). Recent named contracts include $7.8 million for natural and cultural resource monitoring at border wall construction segment EPT-5 (El Paso Sector) under GSA MAS, $4.4 million for resource monitoring at Rio Grande Valley border segment RGV-3, and $1.35 million juvenile green sturgeon monitoring for American River flood risk management under the Army Corps Sacramento District MATOC.

SCI-reported data indicates minimal invoiced federal service revenue captured in the $150,000+ reporting threshold across FY2022–FY2025 ($0 invoiced across all four fiscal years), with negligible FTE trajectory (0.4–1.8 FTEs reported FY2024–FY2025 on 15–19 prime records per year). This signals that Gulf South's federal portfolio is dominated by purchase orders, delivery orders under IDIQs, and task orders priced on fixed-price schedules rather than T&M labor-hour contracts above the SCI threshold, consistent with the vendor's mix of GSA MAS, IDIQ delivery orders, and fixed-price MOD contract work visible in the award detail. Sub-engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts averages 0% of total hours, indicating Gulf South builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on named subcontractors on the contracts it reports to SCI.

Gulf South operates as a pure prime contractor (100% of awards), with one named federal contract sub-award recorded (Dawson Solutions, Inc., on an environmental impact analysis and revegetation plan implementation task) that represents negligible sub exposure. The vendor's federal contracting model emphasizes direct prime delivery and task-order execution on multiple-award vehicles and schedules. Founded and headquartered in Baton Rouge with operations spanning the Southwest and broader federal geography, Gulf South serves as a core environmental services provider for military installation stewardship, border security operations, and natural resource compliance across civilian and defense agencies.

Gulf South Research Corporation is a small woman-owned environmental consulting firm. GSRC has a staff that specializes in NEPA, protected species, wetland delineation, cultural resource surveys.