S C & A Inc.

S C & A Inc., doing business as Sanford Cohen & Associates, is a small business environmental and energy consulting firm headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, delivering NEPA documentation, environmental impact assessments, regulatory compliance, radiological safety, and technical advisory services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of awards) and infrequently as a subcontractor to larger research and engineering primes. The firm competes predominantly in the full-and-open market but maintains material presence on Total Small Business set-aside vehicles, particularly the OASIS+ SB IDIQ and regional EPA IDIQs.

S C & A's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in environmental and energy agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation (Funding Office) anchors the portfolio with 68 awards and $5.99 billion combined potential value—primarily task orders under the firm's $5.78 billion Environmental, Analytical, Research, Technical, and Hybrid (EARTH) Blanket Purchase Agreement running through June 2027. The National Nuclear Security Administration ranks second with four awards and $496.7 million in combined potential value, led by a $400 million Technical, Engineering, and Programmatic Services III BPA (through October 2027) and a $4.99 million delivery order for site-wide environmental impact statement preparation at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission round out the top five by dollars. These five funding offices account for 86% of the combined potential value across the entire portfolio. The firm serves 51 distinct customer agencies.

Recent representative capability work spans NEPA compliance, environmental engineering, radiological assessment, and regulatory support. On the EPA EARTH platform, S C & A has executed contracts for drinking water lead technical support ($23.2 million FY2025 call to EPA's Office of Research and Development), wood heating test method development ($5.7 million to EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, with 42% subcontracting in FY2025), the Tackling Emerging Contaminants Water Technical Assistance program ($53.6 million call), drinking water and wastewater technical assistance to tribes and Alaska Native villages across five EPA regions (ranging from $18.4 million to $25.2 million ceilings), and continued Waste Isolation Pilot Plant compliance support ($1.3–$2.7 million task orders). Outside EPA, S C & A holds a $20.2 million Coast Guard BPA for NEPA support and environmental technical services through 2029, a $54 million EPA EPA Office of the Administrator IDIQ for strategic environmental management approaches, a $50 million Department of the Interior / Bureau of Land Management IDIQ for Federal Orphaned Well Program support, and a $108 million Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management BPA for supplemental environmental impact statements and NEPA documentation (including a $16.96 million West Valley Demonstration Project order). The firm also holds a $6.38 million EPA Region 3 IDIQ and an $8.65 million Export Import Bank BPA, both focused on environmental compliance and NEPA services.

Vehicle positioning is broad. S C & A sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) as the parent for 135 task orders and $6.74 billion in combined potential value, making it the firm's dominant ordering vehicle. The Professional Services Schedule carries 37 task orders and $532.1 million. The firm was awarded to the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ (multiple-award, governmentwide) on December 19, 2024, with no dollar ceiling specified in the source; recent work under related vehicles includes orders from the CDC ($12.1 million delivery order through August 2029) and FEMA ($8.4 million continuity planning and analytic support order under the earlier OASIS SB IDIQ through January 2027).

Activity has grown modestly year over year: 18 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, 38 in 2024, and 12 awards each in 2025 and 2026 year-to-date. Twenty-four awards with combined potential value of $196.5 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure primarily on Coast Guard, EPA, and NRC vehicles.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows S C & A invoiced $45 million in FY2022–FY2025 combined across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, with FY2025 reaching $15.8 million across 42 FTEs. This marks steady growth from $6.3 million and 19.2 FTEs in FY2022. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, S C & A self-performed approximately 82% of contractor hours; across 68 named subcontractors, average sub-hours share was 18%. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $125.76 per hour to a median of $168.35 per hour and a 90th percentile of $226.55 per hour, reflecting a workforce spanning junior technical staff through senior scientists and managers. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio includes 30 active categories priced from $60.72 per hour (junior field technician, high school education) to $379.50 per hour (senior consultant, master's degree and 26 years' experience), with no security-cleared roles offered.

Subcontracting engages established research and engineering primes. S C & A subcontracts regularly to Research Triangle Institute (on EPA air and energy regulatory support, oil and gas emissions programs, and wood heater standards development), Eastern Research Group (water permits and grant management evaluation), Noblis (chemical, weapons, and materials defense advisory services), and Industrial Economics (regulatory economic analysis and market simulation). These relationships reflect S C & A's role as a technical specialist feeding into larger prime-led programs rather than a full-service integrator.

The firm's corporate structure includes a subsidiary, EC / R Incorporated, which carries environmental consulting and remediation specialization that may anchor certain EPA regional and Department of Energy sub-awards, though the source does not explicitly detail the subsidiary's independent contract footprint.

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.