Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns, LLC

Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns, LLC, a Nashville, Tennessee-based minority-owned small disadvantaged business and SBA-certified 8(a) program participant, operates as a prime contractor providing controlled substances removal, pharmaceutical waste disposal, and hazardous waste cleanup services to federal agencies on a full-and-open basis, with no set-asides deployed across its recent prime award footprint.

Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns specializes in reverse distribution and disposal services for Schedule II-V controlled drugs, expired pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical waste, and hazardous materials collection and destruction. The company's concrete federal work includes a $72,450 delivery order from Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 for controlled substances removal at Perry Point, Maryland (awarded May 2026); a $247,532.50 task order from the Drug Enforcement Administration for hazardous waste disposal supplies in Michigan (awarded October 2024); and a $164,370 firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for wastewater, sludge, and oil removal and disposal at the W.G. Huxtable Pumping Plant in Marianna, Arkansas (awarded May 2022). The company also holds significant indefinite delivery contracts: an $850,000 VA VISN 5 IDIQ for controlled substances removal through May 2027 (36 task orders issued to date), an $8.3 million Drug Enforcement Administration IDIQ for chemical and hazardous waste disposal through Michigan and Ohio programs, and a $450,000 Army Corps of Engineers blanket purchase agreement for waste disposal.

Customer concentration is driven by the Veterans Health Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The top five funding agencies account for 94% of recent award volume: VA VISN 5 leads with 30 awards totaling $1.5 million in combined potential value, followed by the DEA with 13 awards and $8.5 million in combined potential value; VA VISN 16 (5 awards, $928 thousand), the Defense Health Agency (3 awards, $708 thousand), and the Army Corps of Engineers (7 awards, $703 thousand) round out the set. By potential-value share, the DEA dominates at $8.5 million, reflecting its two large indefinite delivery contracts for environmental remediation across Michigan and Ohio container programs, while VA VISN 5's 30 awards represent a high-volume, lower-unit-value stream of standing task orders drawn from the $850,000 controlled-substances-removal IDIQ.

Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards); there are no sub-award records in the source. The company's parent vehicles consist primarily of IDIQs and BPAs: the VA VISN 5 controlled-substances-removal IDIQ (36C24522D0049) has generated 29 task orders valued at $641 thousand; the DEA hazardous-waste-remediation IDIQ (15DDHQ21D00000005) has generated 12 task orders valued at $197 thousand; the Army Corps of Engineers BPA (W912EQ20A0009) has generated 6 task orders valued at $253 thousand; and supplementary vehicles carry smaller volumes.

Award activity has declined year over year, from 15 awards in 2022 to 5 in 2026 (through May). However, activity is front-loaded within the current fiscal cycle: the May 2026 award round issued five delivery orders against the VA VISN 5 IDIQ in a single tranch. Fifteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $314 thousand, representing recompete exposure for the vendor and opportunity for competitors if the VA VISN 5 IDIQ or DEA hazardous-waste contracts renew or recompete.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $24 thousand across FY2023–FY2024 (the source captures only two SCI records above the $150,000 reporting threshold, one in FY2023 at $24 thousand); the broader award portfolio signals substantially higher federal revenue than SCI reflects, particularly through micro-purchases, delivery orders under $150,000, and task orders that may not individually breach the SCI reporting floor. The company delivered approximately 0.2 FTEs to federal service contracts captured in SCI in FY2023, declining to zero in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts held steady at a median of $47.00/hr across the period. Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns does not engage subcontractors across its federal work, performing all delivery and disposal operations in-house.

The source data spans awards from September 2017 through May 2026. The company's primary NAICS footprint is hazardous waste collection and treatment (48 awards and 10 awards respectively); the primary PSC is Environmental Systems Protection–Environmental Remediation (35 awards). Place of performance includes VA medical facilities across the eastern United States (Washington D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida), DEA operations in Michigan and Ohio, and Army Corps of Engineers facilities in Tennessee and Arkansas, with the company's administrative and operational base in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reliable Pharmaceutical Returns provides exceptional pharma waste management/ reimbursement services and technology to ensure complete customer satisfaction while strictly adhering to federal, state & local regulations.