Recon Environmental,Inc.

Recon Environmental, Inc., a San Diego-based small business environmental consulting firm, operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering botanical surveys, invasive species management, habitat restoration, environmental monitoring, and ecological assessments to federal land management and border-security agencies. The firm is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly in open (non-set-aside) federal procurements, though it holds two small-business set-aside awards with the Forest Service.

Recon's customer base concentrates heavily in Department of Defense and Department of the Interior accounts. The top five funding agencies account for 51% of recent awards by count but 89% by combined potential value, reflecting a pronounced split: the Department of the Navy and Naval Facilities Engineering Command dominate dollars ($35.8 million across 11 awards and subordinate IDIQs), followed by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office ($50 million BPA), GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($29 million across the Multiple Award Schedule), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Los Angeles ($24.5 million across 37 awards), and the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection ($16.3 million across 27 awards). Navy and Marine Corps work, while numerous by award count (62 and 16 awards respectively), carry minimal dollar value, indicating small delivery orders for specialized support.

Recon holds a $20 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (expiring February 2027) covering 28 labor categories spanning field assistants through environmental principals, with hourly rates from $61.66 to $236.49 and no security-cleared positions. The schedule has generated 118 task orders valued at $35.9 million, predominantly for Customs and Border Protection environmental monitoring work across San Diego County. Recon also holds a single-award $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (through March 2033) enabling restoration, consulting, engineering, and project-management work across federal lands nationwide. Recent representative work under LMIR includes a $299,650 small-business set-aside BPA call (September 2025) for invasive weed treatment on five Angeles National Forest fire sites and a $45,801 BPA call (October 2026) for botanical survey of the Chiquito Basin Botanical Special Interest Area in Lake Elsinore. Outside the GSA schedule and LMIR vehicles, Recon executes work under Navy IDIQs (N6871198D5763 with 26 task orders, N6871100D4414 with 23 task orders) and an Army Corps IDIQs (W912PL14D0054, 23 task orders valued at $6.6 million).

Activity has decelerated in recent years—nine awards in 2022 falling to two in 2026 through October—though the combined potential value across 312 awards totals $174.2 million with $54.7 million obligated (31% of potential). Recon self-performs the substantial majority of its work: Service Contract Inventory data for FY2022–FY2025 shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $5.4 million across 32 prime records, with zero subcontractor hours share on average, indicating no reliance on subs for delivery. Labor trajectory from SCI shows 5.9 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 0.6 FTEs in FY2024, then recovering to 6.6 FTEs in FY2025 (the most recent full SCI reporting year), with median government-paid rates around $175/hr on federal service contracts. Recon has received two sub-awards (September 2026 to Dawson Solutions and October 2022 to Trevet-Bay West Joint Venture) rather than serving as a subcontractor itself, reinforcing its prime-focused posture. Only three awards face recompete within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.9 million), leaving the bulk of the $174 million portfolio secure through 2027 or beyond, with the $50 million LMIR BPA extending to 2033.

Small business, habitat and ecosystem restoration, environmental planning, biological resources, air quality, archaeology, cultural and historic resources, noise, NEPA, CEQA, mitigation, habitat conservation plans, endangered species, wetland delineations and permitting.