Sound Science LLC

Sound Science LLC, a Boise, Idaho–based for-profit limited liability company, provides scientific and technical consulting services to federal natural resource and environmental agencies as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) and does not subcontract; all 78 awards in the source data span prime contract and grant work, with zero sub-award activity.

Sound Science's customer base is heavily concentrated with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation, which accounts for 59 of 78 awards (95% coverage) and $8.5 million of the $9.9 million combined potential value. The Bureau of Reclamation's dominance reflects Sound Science's specialization in water resource management, fish data synthesis, vegetation classification, adaptive management systems, and long-term irrigation studies across the Western United States. The vendor also holds task orders with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Baltimore (5 awards, $1.3 million), the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (6 awards, dollar value not specified in vendor-customer ranking), and the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office (2 awards, $66 thousand). This customer concentration is consistent across both award-count and potential-value rankings; the Bureau of Reclamation anchors the portfolio in both dimensions.

Sound Science operates under four primary parent vehicles with the Bureau of Reclamation, all indefinite delivery contracts: IDC INR16PC00028 (17 task orders, $1.1 million potential value), IDC INR13PC30272 (16 task orders, $749 thousand), IDC INR15PC00100 (12 task orders, $371 thousand), and IDC 140R3021D0010 (10 task orders, $1.2 million). The most recent award was a $260,542.45 firm fixed-price delivery order from the Bureau of Reclamation on June 23, 2026, for Fish Synthesis Phase 3 work extending through October 30, 2027, under a small-business set-aside. Representative prior work includes a $220,313.55 delivery order for G4 Adaptive Management Plans (ultimate completion August 27, 2026), a $179,249.76 vegetation classification delivery order (closed out September 30, 2025), and a $113,193.85 fish data synthesis order (completed May 6, 2025). Sound Science also holds a grant recipient relationship with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, having received a cooperative-agreement award in July 2024 to develop a conceptual ecological model of the northern spotted owl through June 30, 2025.

Activity has declined from earlier highs — four awards in 2021 down to one in 2026 year-to-date — and only three awards ($472 thousand combined potential value) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a modest recompete window. The vendor's capability footprint centers on NAICS 541611 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), with PSC codes reflecting special studies and analysis in environmental assessments, scientific data, and natural resource management. SCI data shows minimal service-contract invoicing footprint in the federal reporting universe — a single sub-record in FY2022 — indicating that the bulk of Sound Science's federal revenue flows through delivery orders under its small-business IDCs with the Bureau of Reclamation, which sit below or near the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold on a per-task basis.