Vernadero Group Inc.

Vernadero Group Inc., a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, delivers environmental consulting, biological monitoring, natural resource management, and construction oversight services to the federal government as a prime contractor on 627 of its 632 recent awards. The company competes under Total Small Business set-asides on roughly two-thirds of its work and places the remainder as full-and-open or partial small business deliveries, with a primary service footprint in NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services).

Vernadero's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and border-security agencies. The top five customers by combined potential value account for 81 percent of the portfolio and are anchored by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District ($660.5 million across 30 awards), the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($235.2 million across 106 awards), Customs and Border Protection ($71.6 million across 16 awards), the Department of the Navy Installations Command ($53.7 million across 51 awards), and the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region ($50.8 million across 168 awards). The two ranking schemes diverge meaningfully: Customs and Border Protection places fewer but larger orders (16 awards averaging $4.5 million each), while Army Installation Management Command issues high-volume small-to-medium orders (168 awards averaging $302 thousand each). Recent work includes a $19.1 million full-and-open delivery order from CBP for construction monitoring and resource surveying supporting TCA-2 border barrier construction in Tucson, Arizona (February 2026), a $7.45 million no-set-aside delivery order from CBP for construction monitoring in Phoenix, Arizona (August 2026), and a $7.016 million no-set-aside delivery order from CBP for cultural and natural resource monitoring at Big Bend National Park, Texas (August 2026).

Vernadero holds position on five major vehicle types. The largest by dollar volume is the Architect and Engineering Services to Support the USACE South Atlantic Division IDIQ ($249 million ceiling, awarded December 2024 to the Mobile District) under which 30 task orders total $660.5 million in combined potential value. Two Navy NAVFAC indefinite delivery contracts dominate award count: N6247320D0021 (134 task orders, $18.3 million combined value) and N6247314D1425 (104 task orders, $15.7 million combined value), both supporting natural resource and biological monitoring at Navy and Marine Corps installations. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 51 task orders worth $94.2 million combined, with recent deliveries for border-barrier environmental monitoring and western power transmission facility biological monitoring. An Army IDIQ W9124A08D0002 spans 141 task orders ($13.6 million combined value). Vernadero also holds a $10 million GSA Schedule contract (awarded July 2026, performance through July 2031) and a $249 million USACE South Atlantic Division IDIQ (awarded December 2024). In addition, the company won a $15 million Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District IDIQ for Army Reserve Installation Management services (May 2025), a $10 million Bureau of Land Management BPA for cultural resource management in the Permian Basin, New Mexico (May 2025), and a $1 million Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District BPA for ecological services across the Mississippi River Basin (May 2025).

Activity has been stable to declining in recent years: 32 awards in 2022, peaking at 38 in 2023, dropping to 37 in 2024, then declining to 25 in 2025 and 20 year-to-date in 2026. Forty-seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $88.3 million and therefore face recompete risk. Award velocity and recompete concentration suggest the vendor is maturing within existing customer relationships rather than expanding footprint—most new work flows through existing IDIQs and BPAs rather than net-new vehicle wins.

Vernadero subcontracts on only five awards in the source snapshot, all within the past two years: construction monitoring and environmental compliance support to Dawson Solutions, Inc. (August 2026 and March 2026), environmental services work on the Paradise Cove restoration project to Dawson MCG, Inc. (December 2025), and emerging-technology integration for ISR systems to HII Mission Technologies Corp (August 2024). Sub engagement is minimal; the company operates almost exclusively as a prime.

The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 16 categories priced between $54.19 and $159.80 per hour, with education requirements ranging from bachelor's degree (at entry levels) to master's degree (for principal roles requiring fifteen years' experience). No security clearances are required for posted labor categories. This rate structure supports the vendor's field-based environmental assessment and monitoring work at federal installations and construction sites, with GIS technician and junior professional roles anchoring lower cost deployments and project manager and principal roles supporting higher-complexity compliance and planning initiatives.

The source material repeatedly references significant indefinite delivery vehicles held with the Army Corps of Engineers, specifically a $249 million IDIQ with Mobile District and $15 million IDIQ with Louisville District, along with multi-million-dollar BPAs with Bureau of Land Management and Navy entities. These vehicles position Vernadero as a recurring partner on military environmental compliance, resource management, and construction-support work across the Southwest and Southeast regions. The vendor's concrete capability footprint centers on endangered species surveys (desert tortoise, fairy shrimp, least tern, California gnatcatcher), habitat assessments, invasive species management, wetland delineation and restoration, construction environmental monitoring, natural resource management planning, and NEPA documentation—capabilities that align tightly with military installation stewardship and border-security environmental compliance requirements.

Vernadero Consulting specializes in environmental, natural resource, and infrastructure management consulting and regulatory compliance support for state and Federal military agencies.