The Northbridge Group, Inc.

The Northbridge Group, Inc., doing business as Northbridge Environmental Management Consultants, provides environmental consulting and technical assistance for federal water infrastructure programs as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) on the EPA's Office of Water contracts, with minority-owned (Subcontinent Asian-Indian American) status and a competitive (non-set-aside) posture across most federal work. Northbridge is a for-profit consulting firm headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts, that competes predominantly full-and-open on EPA opportunities rather than through small-business set-asides, though it holds a newly awarded Total Small Business Set-Aside BPA alongside its primary full-and-open vehicle.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular: 98% of recent awards fund EPA programs, with 24 awards valued at $119.3 million anchored by the EPA's Office of Water (Funding Office). The EPA's Office of Water dominates both award count and potential value, reflecting Northbridge's specialization in Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) support services. Northbridge holds two primary vehicles with the EPA: a $27 million Blanket Purchase Agreement established in November 2022 (running through October 2025) and a newly awarded $15 million Total Small Business Set-Aside BPA effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031, both issued under the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule. All thirty-nine task orders in the current portfolio sit on the MAS vehicle, representing $56.3 million in combined potential value.

Northbridge's capability portfolio centers on information management, financial training development and workshop delivery, transaction testing, and management studies supporting EPA's municipal wastewater and drinking water infrastructure programs. Representative work includes a $1.04 million time-and-materials call order for 2024 State Revolving Fund transaction testing (October 2024, completion November 2025); a $926.9 thousand comprehensive management study of Tennessee's CWSRF and DWSRF programs awarded October 2024 (completion October 2026); a $740.3 thousand call order for 2025-2026 SRF transaction testing (October 2025, completion October 2026); and a $405 thousand call order for financial training workshops and training tool development (September 2024, completion September 2026). Work is performed time-and-materials on twelve-month base periods with twelve-month options, primarily from Kansas City, Kansas, and Westford, Massachusetts offices.

Activity has been uneven. Northbridge received one award in 2022, eight in 2023, seven in 2024, and two each in 2025 and 2026. Six awards with combined potential value of $3.7 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue across the three fiscal years in the dataset totaled $2.5 million (FY2022: $901 thousand across 3.0 FTEs; FY2023: $577 thousand across 1.8 FTEs; FY2024: $976 thousand across 3.1 FTEs), reflecting a small subset of Northbridge's federal services work above the SCI reporting threshold. On SCI-reportable contracts, median government-paid rates ran $145.89 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $179.19 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for roughly 1% of contractor hours, indicating Northbridge builds its own delivery teams rather than relying on named subs. Northbridge subcontracts to Tetra Tech, Inc. on nonpoint source program support work, with three sub-awards spanning February 2024 back to September 2023.

GSA Schedule labor rates span nine categories from $91.64 to $261.64 per hour, including Technical Analyst ($91.64/hr, BA, no experience required), IT Programmer 2 ($146.51/hr, BA, 5 years experience), IT Business Analyst 3 ($183.14/hr, BA, 10 years experience), and IT Project Manager ($261.64/hr, BA, 10 years experience). No security-cleared roles are offered on the schedule. The category concentration by award count reflects Northbridge's EPA water-program focus: 24 awards carry NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services) and 25 awards carry PSC R499 (Environmental Systems Protection – Water Quality Support), with smaller slices in engineering/technical support and environmental assessments.