Pacific Environmental Corporation

Pacific Environmental Corporation, doing business as Penco, operates as a prime contractor providing oil spill response, hazardous waste management, and environmental remediation services to federal maritime and civilian agencies, registered as a small business headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations on its prime footprint, though it receives Total Small Business set-asides on a portion of its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work. Penco's primary NAICS codes are 562211 (Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal), with secondary concentration in 238990 (All Other Specialty Trade Contractors), and PSC codes emphasizing Environmental Systems Protection—Oil Spill Response (143 awards) and Environmental Remediation (30 awards).

Penco's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on emergency response and hazardous materials management in maritime environments. Concrete deliverables include oil spill containment and cleanup (fuel spill cleanups, oily waste offload and pump-out services), hazardous chemical incident response as directed by Federal On-Scene Coordinators, vessel maintenance services (bilge water and waste oil removal from NOAA research vessels), and environmental remediation including the Red Hill fuel tank defueling operations at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Representative prime awards include a $339 thousand time-and-materials delivery order from the U.S. Coast Guard (January 2024) for oil spill mitigation at Sector Honolulu, an $85 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from NOAA (May 2026) for emergency pump-off of 16,000 gallons of diesel fuel from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and a $100 thousand delivery order from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (June 2023) for Red Hill tank repacking and defueling operations.

The vendor exhibits extreme customer concentration. The U.S. Coast Guard dominates the portfolio, representing 170 awards (62% of all 273 awards in the source data) with $60 million in combined potential value—97% of the vendor's total potential value across all customers. NOAA ranks second with 22 awards valued at $196 thousand combined. The remaining eleven customer agencies (Department of Defense, Drug Enforcement Administration, Defense Logistics Agency Energy, and others) collectively account for fewer than seven percent of potential value. This concentration is decision-flipping for competitive intelligence and partnership strategy: virtually all Penco revenue derives from Coast Guard task orders issued against standing Basic Ordering Agreements.

Penco holds multiple BOA vehicles with the Coast Guard. The source names a single-award BOA (DTCG8993A68F914) that generated 101 task orders valued at $2.3 million combined potential value, and a second single-award BOA (HSCG8415AH00001) with 18 task orders worth $323 thousand. A recently awarded BOA with the Coast Guard (September 2025) carries a $3.99 million ceiling through September 2028, establishing a three-year standing authorization for labor, materials, and equipment to mitigate oil spill and hazardous chemical incidents as directed by Federal On-Scene Coordinators. Three additional Coast Guard BOAs appear in the historical vehicle list. NOAA and other agencies award Penco work on an ad hoc basis through purchase orders and delivery orders without standing vehicles.

Activity has remained volatile and modest at scale. Over the past five fiscal years, Penco recorded two awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, six in 2024, six in 2025, and nine through August 2026. Combined potential value across 273 awards totals $65.8 million, of which only $18.3 million (28%) has been obligated. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only one award ($112 thousand) has an ultimate completion date inside that window. However, the vendor's operational continuity depends entirely on Coast Guard task order generation against its BOA portfolio; expiration or non-renewal of those vehicles would eliminate the primary revenue stream.

SCI-reported invoicing for FY2024 totaled $339 thousand across fewer than two FTEs delivered to federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold. This figure represents only one prime SCI contract and captures a small fraction of Penco's total federal activity, which includes hundreds of micro-purchase and smaller-dollar delivery orders below SCI thresholds. On the single reportable prime contract, the government-paid rate was approximately $419 per hour. Penco operates as a 100% prime contractor across its award footprint with zero subcontract work; the SCI dataset shows zero sub-hours share on its reportable prime contracts, indicating Penco builds and deploys its own delivery teams for environmental response rather than engaging subcontractors.

Penco operates as Pacific Environmental Corporation, the parent vendor shown in the corporate structure block; no named subsidiaries are listed. The vendor's regional positioning in Hawaii and established relationships with Coast Guard Sector Honolulu and other Pacific maritime stakeholders position it as the primary rapid-response environmental contractor for federal agencies in the region, but this strength is also a constraint—geographic and customer concentration create vulnerability to shifts in federal maritime operations, pollution incident frequency, or vessel maintenance practices.