Mount Hood Environmental, LLC

Mount Hood Environmental, LLC, a small business based in Sandy, Oregon, delivers natural resources consulting, habitat restoration, fisheries analysis, and specialized equipment manufacturing to federal land-management and wildlife agencies as both a prime contractor (46% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to federal grant recipients (54% of recent awards). The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides on task orders and purchase orders, with recent prime work spanning full-and-open competitive procurements as well as total small business reservations.

Mount Hood Environmental's recent award footprint centers on three capability lines grounded in its award history. The vendor manufactures Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags compliant with Columbia River Basin fisheries standards — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $479,450 total small business purchase order on July 30, 2026, for 223,000 units of 12mm ISO FDX-B frequency tags with delivery to Vancouver, Leavenworth, and Orofino. The vendor also performs specialized statistical and ecological analysis: NOAA awarded a $44,655 purchase order on August 2, 2023, for Bayesian model evaluation of toxic urban stormwater threats to wild salmon and steelhead in Puget Sound, Washington. Third, Mount Hood Environmental delivers stream survey, data collection, and habitat restoration field work — a $17,865 BPA call order from the U.S. Forest Service Region 6 (Willamette National Forest) on June 25, 2024, exemplifies this line.

The vendor holds a prime position on a $50 million single-award Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) blanket purchase agreement with the USDA Forest Service, awarded September 12, 2023, and running through March 2033. This BPA covers professional services, natural resources restoration, engineering, project management, and related work across all federal agencies' land-management activities and serves as the parent vehicle for Mount Hood Environmental's one named BPA task order with the Forest Service Region 6.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by a single large vehicle. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions accounts for $50 million (99% of combined potential value) on the LMIR BPA alone, while the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration represents seven awards with only $45,000 combined potential value, and the Department of the Interior splits between Fish and Wildlife Service ($479,450), Bureau of Reclamation ($70,000), and USGS ($5,000). Six distinct agencies span the recent portfolio, but the LMIR BPA's scale creates steep concentration risk: all of the vendor's prime-contract dollars flow from one vehicle.

As a subcontractor, Mount Hood Environmental supports habitat restoration and fisheries monitoring for the Minerals and Energy Coordination Office of Species (prime grantee) on multiple sub-awards dating to July 2024, including Pahsimeroi River restoration and long-term Chinook salmon monitoring across the Lemhi River with PIT tag infrastructure maintenance. These sub-grants address channel complexity, riparian protection, and restoration science evaluation in the Upper Salmon Basin, Idaho.

Activity shows episodic concentration in recent years. Awards clustered in 2024 (four awards) and 2026 (five awards, with the largest PIT tag order arriving in July 2026), following single awards in 2016 and 2018. The $50 million LMIR BPA ceiling distorts activity trajectory; the underlying obligation rate sits at only 6% of combined potential value ($2.9 million obligated across all thirteen awards), indicating early-stage performance on the BPA vehicle and modest cash flow on near-term contracts. Within SCI-reportable service contract activity, the vendor appears as a named subcontractor on one FY2022 record, with approximately 2.1 FTEs delivered on that sub engagement — too thin a dataset for meaningful pricing-posture analysis.

FISHERIES Capabilities: Endangered Species Act analyses; habitat conservation plans; regulatory decision support frameworks; Instream flow assessments (PHABSIM/IFIM); mesohabitat-based techniques; Smolt survival; fish tracking; fish passage evaluations; entrainment monitoring; hatchery, natural-origin fish interaction studies; hatchery broodstock assessments; fish culture experiments; radio-transmitter and PIT-tagging ; electrofishing; screw-trapping; hook-and-line; tangle and gill nets; habitat assessments; flow & temperature monitoring; abundance, grown and survival monitoring; species assemblage; and, river navigation guide services; life-cycle modeling; stock-recruitment; regression analysis; mark-recapture survival rate, population abundance estimation. TOXICOLOGY Capabilities: Determining chemical toxicity to aquatic species; Determining herbicide efficacy; identifying data gaps and evaluating environmental impacts of toxicants