Swca, Incorporated

Swca, Incorporated (doing business as Swca Environment Consultants) is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, that provides environmental planning, regulatory compliance, and natural and cultural resource management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and subordinate subcontractor. The vendor operates across 69 distinct customer agencies without set-aside designations, competing in full-and-open procurements across federal land management, water resources, and wildlife agencies.

Swca's capability portfolio centers on four concrete service lines grounded in award history: environmental compliance and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) support, cultural resource management and archaeological surveying, biological resource assessment and monitoring, and natural resource planning. Representative work spans a $4.358 million Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region delivery order for public land order environmental impact statement services (Feb 2023–Dec 2024), a $2.588 million BLM Utah Region BPA call for Bears Ears National Monument resource management planning (May 2022–Nov 2024), a $2.169 million BLM Alaska Region Ambler Access Project supplemental environmental impact statement contract (Mar 2023–Mar 2025), a $1.574 million U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region call for Caldor Fire restoration cultural resource surveys on 45,000 acres of Eldorado National Forest (Nov 2022–Jul 2024), and a $1.061 million Bureau of Reclamation definitive contract for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher presence/absence and territory monitoring along the lower Colorado River (Sep 2022–Mar 2025). GSA Schedule labor offerings span 42 categories at $63.49 to $260.59 per hour, ranging from entry-level Environmental Resources Specialists through senior Subject Matter Experts; all roles require bachelor's education or higher and carry no security clearance requirements, emphasizing technical expertise in environmental sciences and cultural resources.

Customer concentration centers on Interior Department bureaus and the Forest Service. The top five customer agencies by award count—Bureau of Reclamation (100 awards, $15.5 million), BLM Utah Region (39 awards, $11.5 million), BLM Nevada Region (34 awards, $5.3 million), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (34 awards, $7.4 million), and Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (27 awards, $50.8 million)—account for 45% of all awards. By potential value, however, the distribution shifts: BLM National Office dominates with 26 awards valued at $99.8 million combined (anchored by the $30 million NEPA BPA master vehicle), followed by Forest Service Washington Office at $50.8 million, Reclamation at $15.5 million, Fish and Wildlife Service at $13 million, and BLM Utah Region at $11.5 million. Together these five customers represent 75% of combined potential value. The concentration skew reflects Swca's positioning as a master BPA holder rather than a transaction-heavy transactional vendor.

Swca holds primary position on three major vehicle platforms: the Professional Services Schedule (387 task orders, $131.6 million combined potential value), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (42 task orders, $69.3 million), and the BLM National Environmental Policy Act Support Services master BPA (22 task orders, $20.7 million). The Professional Services Schedule placement through the Fish and Wildlife Service anchors the largest revenue stream; the GSA MAS vehicle underpins delivery orders across multiple Interior agencies; and the BLM NEPA BPA, valued at $30 million with a ceiling through August 13, 2028, serves as a springboard for task orders supporting land management planning, environmental assessments, and regulatory compliance work across BLM regions and subsequent expansion to all Department of Interior agencies. A single-award $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) BPA with the Forest Service, running through March 6, 2033, establishes the vendor as a national environmental consulting resource for the agency's land stewardship, restoration, and project management needs. Recent primary IDIQs include a December 2024 $499,985.73 single-award indefinite delivery contract with Fish and Wildlife Service for cultural resource investigations across Regions 1 and 8 (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada), a July 2023 $6.1 million Fish and Wildlife Service single-award BPA for scientific, advisory, and technical peer review services, and a July 2023 $5 million Fish and Wildlife Service single-award BPA for nationwide wetland mapping.

Award activity has moderated in recent years but remains substantial. Swca received 12 awards in 2022, rising to 23 in 2023, before declining to 18 in 2024 and 8 in 2025, with 2 awards recorded through March 2026. This trajectory reflects market maturation in established vehicles rather than pipeline contraction—the vendor's anchor BPA and IDIQ positions continue to generate task orders. Within the next twenty-four months, 7 awards with combined potential value of $4.2 million face ultimate completion dates and therefore recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role—representing 4% of recent awards—Swca delivers environmental consulting and cultural resource work to primes including Tetra Tech (brownfields site assessment and cultural resources inventory and mitigation), CDM Federal Programs Corporation (environmental and historic preservation support for FEMA hazard mitigation assistance and environmental review consulting), EA Engineering, Science and Technology Inc. (cultural surveys and munitions and explosives of concern removal support at Camp Howze, Texas), Booz Allen Hamilton (environmental consulting for FAA airport traffic control tower environmental assessments), and Cambridge International Systems (geophysical surveying and mapping services for New Bedford Harbor remedial action). The 4% sub share and zero sub-hours engagement on SCI-reportable prime contracts indicate Swca builds and executes its own delivery teams rather than leaning on subcontractor capacity.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts (federal contracts above $150,000), Swca invoiced $893 thousand from FY2022 through FY2024, with FY2023 showing $385 thousand across 1.9 FTEs and FY2024 showing $508 thousand across 2.3 FTEs. SCI captures a narrow slice of the vendor's federal work—it excludes goods, low-dollar micro-purchases, and classified contracts, and the low FTE and dollar figures reflect SCI's $150,000 threshold capturing only larger discrete service assignments rather than the totality of task order activity under master BPAs and IDIQs. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable primes ran a median of $101.53 per hour, with a 10th percentile of $99.06 and 90th percentile of $104.00, indicating competitive standard-market pricing for federal environmental consulting labor.

By service category, Swca's award footprint concentrates in Environmental Consulting Services (392 awards), with secondary exposure in All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (5 awards), Support Activities for Forestry (4 awards), and Remediation Services (4 awards). Procurement Service Code distribution shows Special Studies/Analysis—Archeological/Paleontological (132 awards), Special Studies/Analysis—Environmental Assessments (110 awards), Other Environmental Services (81 awards), and Special Studies/Analysis—Endangered Species (19 awards), confirming capability depth in cultural resources, NEPA compliance, biological resource assessment, and threatened and endangered species support across western and national scope.