Scientific Consulting Group Inc.

Scientific Consulting Group Inc., a women-owned small business based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, operates as a prime contractor (99% of awards) delivering scientific communications, conference and event planning, environmental technical support, and administrative services to federal health and civilian agencies on GSA Schedules, single-award and multiple-award IDIQs, and BPAs. The vendor is WOSB-certified and Subchapter S structured; recent awards show total small business set-aside designations on the largest IDIQs and mixed set-aside posture on smaller delivery orders.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward health and environmental agencies. The National Cancer Institute alone accounts for 171 awards ($204.3 million combined potential value), the National Institutes of Health parent agency drives 31 additional awards, and the Environmental Protection Agency accounts for 67 awards (Office of Research and Development) plus 57 more across the agency. These three customer buckets represent approximately 64% of awards by count. By potential value, the EPA Office for Air and Radiation dominates with a $5.82 billion combined ceiling (the EARTH Support Services BPA awarded July 1, 2022, with a June 30, 2027 expiration), followed by the NIH Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations at $2.97 billion (spanning PICS III and NIHCATS IV IDIQs). This gap between volume concentration and dollar concentration reflects a portfolio of high-ceiling IDVs (most not yet generating large invoiced volume) anchoring the top-value ranking while numerous smaller task orders drive the award-count metrics.

Scientific Consulting Group holds five major parent vehicles. The $5.776 billion EPA EARTH Support Services BPA (Multiple Award Schedule, awarded July 1, 2022, completion June 30, 2027) is the largest by ceiling and generated an $8.875 million BPA call for EPA asthma program communications and outreach (awarded April 24, 2023, completion December 31, 2027). The $1 billion Public Information and Communications Services III (PICS III) single-award IDC (total small business set-aside, awarded December 17, 2024, completion December 16, 2029) procures scientific communication and conference planning across NIH and partner civilian agencies; a January 24, 2026 delivery order from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences under PICS III covers NCATS communication support services for $1.199 million through January 23, 2027. The $100 million NIH Conference Administrative and Travel Services IV (NIHCATS IV) single-award IDC (total small business set-aside, awarded December 1, 2024, completion November 30, 2029) supports conference and administrative travel across NIH institutes and centers; a June 16, 2026 delivery order from the National Cancer Institute under NIHCATS IV covers Division of Extramural Activities conference and administrative support for $1.033 million through June 16, 2029. The $85 million Health Resources and Services Administration Marketing Campaign Services single-award BPA (total small business set-aside, awarded September 24, 2023, completion March 9, 2029) funds marketing and communications initiatives across the HRSA portfolio. GSA Multiple Award Schedule task orders account for 23 orders across the portfolio; representative awards include a September 30, 2026 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services delivery order for $4.963 million (completion September 29, 2029) and a September 1, 2024 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases scientific conference and logistics order for $11.763 million (completion August 31, 2029), both on time-and-materials pricing.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years — thirteen awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, twelve in 2024, two in 2025, and four in 2026 — reflecting a mature, stable contract portfolio rather than growth trajectory. The vendor faces six awards (combined potential value $38.5 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure primarily on smaller task orders rather than the large IDVs. Combined potential value across the 581 awards in the source snapshot totals $9.65 billion; combined dollars obligated stand at $329.9 million (3% of potential), indicating early-stage drawdown across newly awarded or newly competed IDVs.

Service Contract Inventory (SCI) data reveals SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $69.9 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $19.1 million in FY2022, $19.1 million in FY2023, $19 million in FY2024, and $12.8 million in FY2025. The SCI dataset shows 75.8 FTEs in FY2022, 84.9 FTEs in FY2023, 78.7 FTEs in FY2024, and 47.5 FTEs in FY2025 — a declining trajectory reflecting contract wind-down or task order completion rather than business contraction. Government-paid median rates on prime SCI contracts run around $125.57 per hour, with 10th percentile labor at $94.59 per hour and 90th percentile at $195.09 per hour, reflecting a mix of entry-level administrative and professional-tier communications staff. Across prime SCI-reportable contracts, the vendor subcontracted approximately 2 percent of contractor hours to 17 named subcontractors, indicating a primarily self-performing delivery model. GSA Schedule labor rates span $57.82 per hour (junior designer, high-school education) through $214.68 per hour (project manager, bachelor's-degree requirement), with no security-cleared positions offered; the portfolio includes writers, editors, meeting planners, designers, and communications specialists at education and experience bands from high school plus two years through bachelor's plus five years.

The vendor's three subcontract engagements are recent: Deloitte Consulting LLP (January 29, 2026, professional services for strategic IT communications and change management), Sterling Computers Corporation (May 21, 2025, information technology communications and change management services for a three-month bridge), and IT1 Source LLC (March 5, 2025, information technology communications and change management services). These sub positions suggest limited teaming on IT-adjacent work; the prime footprint is driven by self-delivery across conference, communications, and administrative support services to health and environmental agencies with no major primes acting as consistent customers.

The Scientific Consulting Group, Inc. (SCG) is a small women-owned business that provides professional consulting services to government and private clients in two major business areas: Environmental Consulting and Health and Biomedical Consulting.