Scout Environmental, Inc.

Scout Environmental, Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Encinitas, California, provides environmental planning, compliance, and consulting services to federal agencies as both a prime contractor (47% of recent awards) and subcontractor (53%), competing predominantly under full-and-open and SDVOSB set-aside vehicles rather than set-asides as a contracting posture.

Scout Environmental's capability portfolio centers on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, Endangered Species Act compliance, historic preservation consultations under the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106, environmental site assessments, and regulatory permitting support. Representative prime work includes a $3.42 million delivery order from the Department of Veterans Affairs for multisite environmental baseline studies across VA facilities, a $300 million ten-year indefinite delivery contract awarded in September 2025 by the Department of Interior on behalf of VA for environmental, historic preservation, and sustainability advisory services, and multiple smaller task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule for NEPA preparation, environmental assessments, and Section 106 consultations at VA and USGS sites nationwide. The firm also holds a $30 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (through August 2026) with 34 active labor categories spanning support roles like Typist/Clerical at $57.98 per hour through senior Program Manager roles at $225.21 per hour, all requiring high school through master's degree education and no security clearances.

Scout Environmental's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Veterans Affairs. The top five funding agencies account for 85% of awards by count but a different profile by dollars: VA Office of Construction and Facilities Management dominates by potential value at $300.3 million (anchored by the recently awarded ten-year indefinite delivery contract), followed by GSA Federal Acquisition Service at $30 million, while VA Veterans Health Administration's Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 ranks second by award count (15 awards) but carries only $4.7 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Interior's USGS and the Department of Homeland Security's US Coast Guard each account for 11 to 12 awards with substantially smaller individual task values. Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Civil Engineer Center represents 21 awards, primarily under the OASIS+ (One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services — Small Business) vehicle.

Scout Environmental maintains four parent vehicles: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (34 task orders, $5.3 million combined potential value), OASIS+ Small Business (21 task orders), the Department of Interior's Nationwide Environmental Engineering Services IDIQ (11 task orders), and the VA indefinite delivery contract 140D0425D0030 (3 task orders, $124 thousand). The $300 million Department of Interior indefinite delivery contract awarded September 23, 2025, represents a structural shift in Scout's capacity: it is a single-award ten-year vehicle that consolidates environmental services for VA facilities nationwide under one ceiling, distinguishing it from the transactional GSA Schedule and OASIS+ ordering patterns.

Activity peaked in 2022 with 23 awards and has declined year over year (7 awards in 2024, 8 in 2025, 2 through April 2026), but recompete exposure is modest — nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.1 million. The recent steep decline in annual award count reflects the shift toward higher-value, longer-duration indefinite delivery vehicles rather than discrete task orders.

In its subcontractor role, Scout Environmental delivers environmental assessments and compliance support to primes including Bb&E, Inc. on multiple Air Force Environmental Compliance Enforcement and Coast Guard permitting and dredging tasks, HDR Environmental on Army National Guard Environmental Performance Assessment System assessments across multiple states, AECOM on remedial investigation and feasibility studies, and Leidos on Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific systems work. SCI-reportable federal service contract activity is minimal — $403 thousand in invoiced revenue in FY2024 across 0.4 FTEs — reflecting that most Scout work flows through either delivery orders under the GSA Schedule and indefinite delivery contracts (captured in the prime award portfolio but not SCI-reportable above the $150,000 threshold in individual task form) or subcontractor labor on larger primes.

Scout Environmental competes in full-and-open federal markets, with significant SDVOSB set-aside activity concentrated on VA and GSA vehicles. The firm operates primarily as a single-discipline environmental consulting practice with in-house delivery teams; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, no sub-hours were recorded, indicating direct labor delivery rather than subcontractor reliance on those specific engagements.