Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, LTD.

Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, LTD., doing business as Ross Strategic, is a for-profit environmental consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington that delivers facilitation services, stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, and executive coaching to civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The vendor competes on a full-and-open basis across all recent awards with no set-aside designations, though one $4 million EPA Blanket Purchase Agreement carries a Total Small Business set-aside.

Ross Strategic's customer base is heavily concentrated in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water, which accounts for 31 of the vendor's 121 total awards and $13.5 million in combined potential value. The EPA Office of Water's dominance reflects the vendor's core capability in sustainable water sector utility management, water affordability assessment, drinking water state revolving fund support, PFAS and biosolids stakeholder facilitation, and wastewater program advisory work. Beyond EPA Water, the vendor holds a $24.2 million General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract (2022–2027) that anchors a broader portfolio spanning the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance ($2.63 million e-Enterprise delivery order, August 2022, completed August 2025), the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (Hanford Natural Resource Trustee Council facilitation, $658 thousand ceiling), the National Science Foundation ($5 million single-award BPA for workshop facilitation, awarded April 2025, running through April 2030), the EPA Office of Air and Radiation ($350 thousand single-award BPA for environmental coaching, awarded February 2026), the Forest Service ($402 thousand FICOR contract, awarded October 2024), and the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Across its top five customers by potential value—GSA Federal Acquisition Service, EPA Office of Water, NSF, EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, and EPA Office of Research and Development—Ross Strategic accounts for 78% of its combined potential value, indicating significant reliance on EPA and GSA as demand anchors.

The vendor's labor portfolio on the GSA Schedule spans 16 categories ranging from Junior Advisor at $95.50 per hour to Executive Advisor at $299.56 per hour, all requiring a bachelor's degree with no security-cleared roles. SCI-reported invoiced revenue from federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $3.3 million across FY2022–FY2024 (roughly $996 thousand in FY2022, $1.1 million in FY2023, $1.2 million in FY2024), with median government-paid hourly rates around $130.81 per hour and senior labor pricing through $163.41 per hour at the 90th percentile. The FTE trajectory on SCI-reportable prime contracts held steady at 3.9 to 4.1 FTEs across those three fiscal years. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for only 4% of total contractor hours, with a single named subcontractor reported, indicating the vendor primarily self-performs its federal delivery.

As a subcontractor, Ross Strategic works under Eastern Research Group Inc. on alternative dispute resolution and environmental collaboration services for multiple EPA offices (Office of Environmental Justice, Ocean and Wetlands Programs, and RCRA Tribal Program initiatives, awarded between February 2022 and October 2023), under ICF Incorporated on EPA climate pollution reduction workshop facilitation (August 2024), and under Industrial Economics Inc. on Empire Wind regulatory special studies (March 2022). Activity volume has moderated in recent years—eight awards in 2022, declining to four in 2023, recovering to eleven in 2024, then dropping to three in 2025 and three in 2026—with eight awards (combined potential value $2.8 million) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore exposed to recompete.