S C & A Inc.

S C & A Inc., doing business as Sanford Cohen & Associates, is a small business environmental and energy consulting firm that delivers NEPA documentation, environmental impact assessments, regulatory compliance, radiological safety, and technical advisory services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 94% of recent awards. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the firm competes predominantly in the full-and-open market, with a material presence under Total Small Business set-asides on select vehicles such as OASIS+ SB, OASIS SB, and regional EPA IDIQs.

The Environmental Protection Agency dominates S C & A's customer concentration. EPA's Office for Air and Radiation alone accounts for 67 awards carrying a combined potential value of $5.97 billion—the single largest customer relationship—anchored by a $5.78 billion Environmental, Analytical, Research, Technical, and Hybrid (EARTH) blanket purchase agreement under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule extending through June 30, 2027. Recent work from this vehicle includes a $23.2 million FY2025 BPA call for drinking water lead technical support to the Office of Research and Development, a $5.7 million call for test method development and promulgation in the wood heating sector, and a $53.6 million call for the Tackling Emerging Contaminants Water Technical Assistance program under the Office of Water. The National Nuclear Security Administration (four awards, $496.7 million combined potential value) represents the second-largest customer by dollars, supported by a $400 million Technical, Engineering, and Programmatic Services (TEPS) III blanket purchase agreement through October 2027; a recent $4.99 million delivery order supports preparation of a site-wide environmental impact statement for Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Energy Office of General Counsel, and EPA Office for Water round out the top-five customers by potential value. Across 50 distinct customer agencies, S C & A serves environmental, nuclear security, health, energy, coast guard, and interior department missions.

S C & A holds parent vehicles placing it across multiple federal contracting modalities. The $5.78 billion EPA EARTH BPA (129 task orders, $6.73 billion combined potential value against the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle) and the $400 million NNSA TEPS III BPA dominate the portfolio. The firm also sits on a $54 million EPA Indefinite Delivery Contract for technical support of strategic environmental management approaches, a $50 million Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management IDC for the Federal Orphaned Well Program, a $108 million Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management BPA, a $20.2 million Coast Guard BPA for NEPA support and environmental technical services through 2029, an $8.65 million Export-Import Bank BPA, and a $6.38 million EPA Region 3 REPA single-award IDC through February 2031. S C & A also holds a seat on OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside, a governmentwide multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 2024 with a five-year term through December 2029. The Professional Services Schedule vehicle surfaces 37 task orders worth $532.1 million in combined potential value.

Activity trajectory shows consistent growth through 2024, with 38 awards that year, followed by a decline to 12 in 2025 and 6 in 2026 (snapshot as of mid-July). Twenty-four awards carrying $179.6 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. Across all 391 awards in the source (spanning 1990–July 2026), combined potential value is $7.93 billion; obligated dollars total $292.4 million (4% of potential value), reflecting the early-stage nature of many IDV vehicles.

Service Contract Inventory reporting captures a partial federal footprint: SCI-reportable invoicing reached $13.7 million in FY2024 against 35.4 FTEs, up from $6.3 million and 16.4 FTEs in FY2022, showing year-over-year workforce expansion. Across SCI prime records, government-paid rates span from a 10th percentile of $125.73 per hour through a median of $166.27 per hour to a 90th percentile of $226.76 per hour, reflecting a senior-skewed technical labor portfolio. GSA Schedule labor categories ($60.72–$379.50 hourly) span junior field technicians and engineers through senior consultants with up to 26 years of experience; no security-cleared positions are offered. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, an average of 18% of contractor hours are subcontracted, with 36 named subcontractors identified across the portfolio. Recent named subs include Research Triangle Institute (petroleum and natural gas regulatory support, wood heaters, methane emissions), Eastern Research Group Inc. (grant management and water permits), Noblis Inc. (chemical weapons materials support), and Industrial Economics Inc. (Arctic vessel traffic analysis).

The firm's capability footprint is anchored in environmental compliance and nuclear-sector technical support. Beyond the EPA EARTH and NNSA TEPS vehicles, representative prime work includes a $867.5 million EPA Region 3 delivery order (June 2026–June 2031) for technical, analytical, and field support in regulatory oversight and environmental investigation; a $2.91 million Coast Guard BPA call (September 2024) for NEPA support and environmental technical services for Atlantic Fairways Rulemaking; a $710 thousand Nuclear Regulatory Commission delivery order (February 2025) for environmental assessment development supporting NuFuels license renewal at Crownpoint in-situ recovery; and a $16.96 million Department of Energy delivery order (September 2023) for a supplemental environmental impact statement on the West Valley Demonstration Project under the DOE Specialized Consulting, Analysis, and Assistance on Environmental Issues master BPA. The firm also received a $12.1 million CDC delivery order (August 2024, set-aside Total Small Business) under OASIS SB for American Indian and Alaska Native behavioral health technical support, and a $5.14 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development delivery order (September 2022, set-aside Total Small Business) for emergency management and continuity planning services.

S C & A operates through a corporate structure that includes a subsidiary, EC / R Incorporated, also engaged in federal contracting. The parent entity competes across both set-aside and unrestricted vehicles and has been an established federal contractor since its founding in 1994.

MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTING SERVICES IN ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY, PARTICULARLY RELATING TO RADIATION AND NUCLEAR POWER. THE FIRM ALSO PROVIDES HEALTH PHYSICS SERVICES, MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND COMPUTER CODE DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING COST ESTIMATION.