Scout Environmental, Inc.

Scout Environmental, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Encinitas, California, provides environmental compliance, historic preservation, and sustainability advisory services to federal agencies as both a prime contractor (47% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (53% of recent awards). The firm operates predominantly under SDVOSB set-asides on its prime work, with a Subchapter S structure and primary focus on NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and related engineering services.

The vendor's customer concentration reflects a split between very-high-value VA work and higher-volume lower-value work across Interior and other agencies. The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management dominates by potential value, accounting for five awards worth $301.7 million combined—nearly 90% of total potential value in the source data. This concentration is anchored by a September 2025 single-award IDIQ worth $300 million for environmental, historic preservation, and sustainability advisory services at VA facilities nationwide, awarded under SDVOSB set-aside with a ten-year term through March 17, 2031. By award count, the top five customers account for 86% of awards across multiple agency components: the Air Force Materiel Command Civil Engineer Center (21 awards), VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (15 awards, $4.6 million), the U.S. Geological Survey (13 awards, $718 thousand), the U.S. Coast Guard (11 awards), and VA's Office of Construction and Facilities Management (5 awards, $301.7 million). The two rankings diverge sharply—VA CFM places fewer but vastly larger awards, while Air Force and USGS place many small task orders.

Scout Environmental's capability portfolio centers on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, Endangered Species Act compliance, National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 consultations, environmental site assessments, hazardous materials inspection, archaeological and cultural resource management, environmental remediation support, and regulatory permitting. Recent prime examples include a $1.478 million firm fixed-price delivery order from VA for NEPA support, environmental consultation, and historic preservation advisory services at West Los Angeles VA National Cemetery and other facilities (April 2026, completing July 2028); a $3.42 million delivery order from VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 for multisite environmental baseline studies (March 2024, completing May 2027); and numerous smaller NEPA and historic-preservation calls from the USGS and VA in the $11,000–$155,000 range for seismic site assessment, facility environmental studies, and SPCC plan development.

Scout Environmental operates under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 34 active labor categories spanning administrative support ($59.43/hr typist) through senior program management ($230.84/hr), with civil engineers and compliance auditors positioned in the $120–$165 hourly range. The vendor places 36 task orders under the MAS vehicle for $5.3 million combined potential value, and operates under the Air Force's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services - Small Business (21 task orders), the Coast Guard's Nationwide Environmental Engineering Services vehicle (11 task orders), and several smaller agency-specific IDIQs, including the $500 thousand USGS BPA for NEPA, ESA, and historic-preservation reviews (September 2022 through September 2027).

Activity has contracted significantly from peak levels. Awards per year fell from 23 in 2022 to just 3 in 2026 (as of September 2026), though the September 2025 $300 million VA IDIQ award masks this decline—the vehicle itself represents a major institutional win even as the vendor faces recompete pressure on smaller task-order streams. Nine awards with combined potential value of $5.6 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete in that window.

Scout Environmental subcontracts to larger primes on defense and civil-works projects. Named primes include Bb&E, Inc. (environmental compliance enforcement on Air Force Civil Engineer Center work, multiple 2022–2023 awards), HDR Environmental (environmental performance assessment at Army National Guard facilities, 2024–2025), AECOM Technical Services (remedial investigation and paleontological resources, January 2025), Leidos (naval information-warfare work, 2025), and Environmental Science Associates (VA medical environmental and historic studies, 2023). The sub footprint reflects environmental scientist and technical-specialist roles rather than management or systems-integration layers; Scout subcontracts primarily as a subject-matter delivery resource rather than a prime bundler.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on prime contracts totaled $1 million across FY2024–FY2025 ($403 thousand in FY2024, $644 thousand in FY2025), with a median government-paid hourly rate of $809.52/hr on SCI-reportable service contracts. This subset represents only two prime SCI records above the $150,000 reporting threshold and does not reflect the vendor's full federal revenue or the $301.7 million in potential value from the VA IDIQ. SCI workforce data shows roughly 0.4 FTEs delivered on federal services contracts in FY2025, with zero sub-hours share, indicating Scout performed those captured contracts entirely with its own staff. The SCI dataset is a narrow slice of Scout's federal activity; the vendor's actual federal services footprint and total enterprise revenue are substantially larger.