Nutter & Associates Inc.

Nutter & Associates Inc., based in Athens, Georgia, is an SBA-certified HUBZone small business that operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering environmental consulting, cultural resource surveys, wetland delineations, and expert witness services to federal agencies across the Southeast and nationally. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation specializing in natural resources management, archaeological investigations, and environmental assessments for USDA, Department of Justice, Department of Interior, and Department of Health and Human Services.

Nutter & Associates' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward USDA programs. The top five funding agencies account for 84% of recent awards by count, led by USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Southeast Region (31 awards, $5.3 million combined potential value) and USDA Forest Service Region 8–Southern Region (26 awards, $13.7 million). However, the potential-value rankings show stark concentration: the USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions anchors a single award—the $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded September 7, 2023, running through March 6, 2033—which represents 67% of the firm's total combined potential value across all 98 awards. The Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (17 awards, $2.4 million) is the third-largest customer by volume and dollars. Recent representative work includes a $830,851 phytoremediation research contract with the Army Corps of Engineers' Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity for PFAS-impacted soil and groundwater remediation (ultimate completion September 17, 2028); a $159,960 archaeological evaluation task order with USDA Region 8 for the Eatonton, Georgia project (September 30, 2025 completion); a $128,960 cultural resources survey of the Ord Turkey Trail area (1,040 acres in Georgia, completion March 30, 2027); and multiple wetland delineation BPA calls with NRCS in South Carolina and North Carolina ranging from $12,690 to $130,611 per task order.

The firm holds three primary parent vehicles. The $50 million single-award USDA Forest Service BPA (Land Management Integrated Resources National) carries a nine-task-order footprint at $720 thousand combined potential value. Nutter & Associates also operates under a $1 million single-award NRCS South Carolina BPA for wetland delineations and determinations (running through August 30, 2028) and a GSA Multiple Award Schedule vehicle with 28 task orders valued at $3.3 million combined potential. Two additional single-award regional BPAs—one HUBZone-set-aside North Carolina wetland-determination BPA ($249,999.99 ceiling through September 6, 2028) and five other regional BPAs—provide direct ordering authority for USDA and DOJ agencies across the Southeast.

Activity has remained stable to declining: seven awards in 2022, rising to 12 in 2024, then contracting to eight in 2025 and three in the first half of 2026. Only six awards (combined potential value $740 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure; the $50 million LMIR BPA does not expire until March 2033, anchoring the firm's pipeline.

Nutter & Associates' capability portfolio splits across two primary service lines grounded in award history. Environmental consulting encompasses wetland delineations and determinations (47 awards under NAICS 541620—Environmental Consulting Services), cultural resource surveys, archaeological field investigations, and Phase 1 archaeological assessments for USDA Forest Service and NRCS across the Southeast—typically firm fixed-price task orders under $200,000. Expert witness and litigation-support services (22 awards under All Other Legal Services, PSC Support–Professional: Expert Witness) with the Department of Justice and Department of Interior carry longer durations and time-and-materials pricing, with ceilings ranging from $65,000 to $143,640. GSA Schedule labor categories span nine roles from Administrative Assistant at $35.00/hour to Senior Consultant at $160.00/hour (PhD, 25 years experience), with no security-cleared positions offered. The firm's workforce profile emphasizes bachelor's and master's-degree scientists and project managers with 5–25 years' field experience in environmental sciences and archaeology, reflecting the specialized technical depth required for federal wetland compliance and cultural resource documentation work.

Nutter & Associates competes predominantly outside set-asides on full-and-open basis; of the 98 recent awards, 42 carry explicit total small business or HUBZone set-aside designations, and 56 were awarded competitive full-and-open. The firm's HUBZone certification recurs across the North Carolina and South Carolina regional BPAs and is routinely noted in award summaries, but does not appear to be a mandatory gate for most USDA Forest Service and NRCS work—the firm wins the $50 million LMIR BPA and most South Carolina NRCS calls under no set-aside designation, indicating strong competitive standing in open federal environmental consulting markets.

Nutter & Associates, Inc. is a 40+ year old environmental consulting company, specializing in wetland delineations and wetland mitigation services, biological assessments, phytoremediation of PFAS and other contaminants, botanical surveys, NEPA compliance, permits, riparian assessments, ecological monitoring, GIS, water quality, soils, groundwater-surface water interaction, hydrologic modeling, water supply, aquifer storage and recovery, database management and technical reports. Our team includes Professional Wetland Scientists, Professional Hydrologists, Professional Geologists, Licensed Soil Scientists, Botanists, Certified Ecologists, and Registered Foresters.