Institute For Applied Ecology

Institute For Applied Ecology, a non-profit organization headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon, acts as prime recipient on federal grants and prime contractor on federal service agreements, delivering native plant seed collection, propagation, species surveys, and habitat restoration services to Interior Department land-management agencies with no set-aside posture. The organization operates across NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry), competing full-and-open on cooperative agreements, delivery orders, and purchase orders for endangered-species recovery, post-fire rehabilitation, and landscape connectivity work.

Institute For Applied Ecology's customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Interior. The top five customer agencies account for 63 percent of award volume by count, anchored by the Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region (77 awards), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (54 awards), and BLM National Office (40 awards, $28.9 million combined potential value). By dollar value, the BLM National Office dominates with $28.9 million across delivery orders for botanical support at multiple field offices—Las Cruces, Taos, Farmington, Carlsbad, and New Mexico State Office—running through September 2025. The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 funds a deep roster of cooperative agreements on threatened and endangered species recovery, including Fender's Blue Butterfly population monitoring in the Willamette Valley, Kincaid's Lupine restoration across recovery zones in Oregon and Washington, and Taylor's Checkerspot Butterfly captive-rearing coordination at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. Recent contract work includes a $122,665 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service purchase order for bladderpod pollinator surveys (completion December 2026) and an $8,820 U.S. Forest Service purchase order for Viola adunca seed production supporting Oregon Spotted Butterfly habitat restoration on BLM lands (completion December 2027).

Institute For Applied Ecology's grant footprint spans research, restoration, and species-recovery cooperative agreements with the Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.904 and related), National Park Service cooperative study units (CFDA 15.945), and EPA Geographic Programs (CFDA 66.475). Significant recent grants include a $1.816 million EPA Region 4 award under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to develop and demonstrate a native crop toolkit for Rio Grande-Albuquerque watershed agricultural communities (completion December 2028), a $159,861 NPS cooperative agreement for native seed grower collaboration in support of Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks restoration (completion February 2029), and multiple BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Program cooperative agreements on seed collection, propagation, habitat restoration, and special-status plant species surveys. The organization receives cooperative agreements through the Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs network (CESU partnerships) and BLM regional offices across Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Arizona. Grant work performs seed collection, population monitoring, propagation protocol development, and habitat restoration for federally listed species including Kincaid's Lupine (threatened), Fender's Blue Butterfly (endangered), Taylor's Checkerspot Butterfly (endangered), Willamette Daisy (endangered), and numerous BLM-sensitive species.

Institute For Applied Ecology places delivery orders under five BLM IDCs (140L0618D0031, 140L0618D0062, 140L0618D0043, 140L0618D0048, 140L0618D0046), with the first two accounting for 22 task orders totaling $3.7 million combined potential value. The organization competes predominantly through full-and-open federal grant and contract vehicles—no set-asides appear across the award footprint. Activity has moderated since peak years 2022–2024 (31, 14, and 19 awards respectively), with 2025–2026 showing markedly lower award volume (three and two awards). Six awards totaling $131 thousand reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. As prime, the organization acts on 99 percent of awards; sub-award work is negligible (three sub-grants from Montana State University and Oregon State University for native plant network development and tribal conservation corps seed collection). The organization's work spans contract and grant engagement with interior agencies managing public lands, with no defense or civilian IT footprint and no commercial contracting footprint.