NRC Environmental Services Inc.

NRC Environmental Services Inc., a subsidiary of US Ecology Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona), delivers hazardous waste treatment, disposal, and environmental remediation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating from Portland, Oregon. The company competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-asides across its federal footprint and has generated $4.3 million in combined potential value across 261 awards since 2002, with $3.9 million obligated (92% of potential).

NRC's customer base concentrates sharply on interior and defense environmental programs in the Pacific Northwest. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington office accounts for 77 awards and $2.4 million (56% of combined potential value), representing the dominant customer by both volume and dollars. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Portland ranks second with 15 awards and $846 thousand in combined potential value, followed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the broader Army Corps of Engineers. These five customer nodes account for 79% of combined potential value across 129 awards. Award volume has remained modest and flat — two awards in 2022, declining to one in 2024, then rising to three in 2025 and three in 2026 year-to-date — indicating a small, stable but not growth-trajectory operation.

NRC's primary capability aligns with its parent company's hazardous waste business: 138 awards fall under NAICS Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal, with 93 under Remediation Services, and the PSC concentration mirrors this profile — 158 awards under Environmental Systems Protection Environmental Remediation and 47 under Environmental Systems Protection Oil Spill Response. Representative prime work includes purchase orders from the Army Corps of Engineers Portland District for slops transport and disposal on the ESSAYONS vessel (May 2022, $6,130) and emergency environmental response from Missouri (April 2022, $6,194). NRC places work under three indefinite-delivery IDCs: HAC033Q00 (79 task orders, $410 thousand), INL08PC90225 (62 task orders, $834 thousand), and INL13PC00139 (24 task orders, $595 thousand), plus EPA and Army Corps of Engineers framework vehicles for environmental services.

Recent subcontract activity shows NRC functioning as a sub-tier performer under prime environmental contractors. Since mid-2023, NRC has been subcontracted by Jacobs Government Services Company for waste collection at the Bradford Island National Priorities List site (five sub-awards through May 2026) and by CDM Federal Programs Corporation for field investigation services on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site Remedial Design project (three sub-awards through March 2025). These sub engagements represent 8 of 261 total awards (3%), with primes anchoring NRC to larger environmental remediation and site characterization programs in the Pacific Northwest.