Water & Air Research, Inc.

Water & Air Research, Inc., doing business as Water & Air, is an employee-owned environmental consulting firm based in Gainesville, Florida that delivers biological surveys, ecological assessments, wetland delineation, threatened species relocation and monitoring, and water quality compliance services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations. The firm competes on a $10 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (through July 2027) and holds multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles with the Department of the Navy and Army Corps of Engineers.

Water & Air's customer base is heavily concentrated in defense and natural-resources agencies. The Department of the Navy accounts for 68 awards (the single largest customer by count), followed by the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service (29 awards), the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Jacksonville (28 awards, $18.9 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Army (24 awards). The Navy and NRCS combined account for 76% of recent award count, but the dollar concentration differs: USACE Jacksonville (28 awards) anchors the portfolio with $18.9 million in combined potential value, while the GSA Federal Acquisition Service's administration of Water & Air's MAS contract represents $17.5 million in vehicle ceiling capacity across two awards (the $10 million MAS contract itself plus related scheduling agreements). These two ranking divergences reflect Water & Air's role as a high-volume task-order recipient for small-dollar environmental field work (Navy and NRCS awards tend to be sub-$200 thousand field surveys) versus a holder of large vehicle positions that fund downstream orders.

Representative capability work includes a $756,183.30 delivery order from USACE Jacksonville for the Port Everglades Deepening Project (environmental consulting, extended through December 2024), a $425,685.18 BPA call from ENDIST Jacksonville for the Banana River submerged aquatic vegetation survey (NASA-related biological assessment), a $320,655.62 BPA call for the Anclote River restoration project (total small business set-aside; note that some individual BPA calls under Water & Air's standing agreements carry set-asides even though the vendor itself competes full-and-open), a $284,070.96 delivery order from Navy Engineering District Jacksonville for Gulf Intracoastal Waterway submerged aquatic vegetation resource surveys, and a $201,410.12 delivery order from the National Park Service Southeast Region for seagrass habitat restoration at Biscayne National Park. Work is priced on firm fixed-price bases and performed across coastal and wetland sites in Florida and Georgia.

Water & Air's primary vehicle positions are the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (54 task orders, $14.1 million combined potential value), an indefinite delivery contract with the Navy (N6246794D1049, 32 task orders), and standing agreements with the Navy (N6246788D0628, 10 task orders; N6246793D0868, 10 task orders) and the Air Force (F3361581D4007, 9 task orders). The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 24 categories from Associate Technician ($48.49/hr) through Principal Engineer/Technologist ($215.53/hr), with education requirements ranging from associate to master's degrees and no security-cleared positions offered. Work is categorized primarily under NAICS Environmental Consulting Services (46 awards) and Engineering Services (33 awards), with PSC coding reflecting architectural and engineering general services (69 awards) and environmental assessments and water-quality analysis (56 combined awards).

Activity has remained flat in recent years (three to five awards annually from 2022 through 2026), with 207 total awards recorded since 1980. Only five awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing $1 million in combined potential value and therefore minimal near-term recompete exposure. The firm has no subcontract presence in the source data and operates entirely as a prime on its own vehicle positions and direct task orders, indicating a focused, standalone environmental-services operation with deep customer relationships in defense and civilian natural-resources agencies rather than a teaming or platform model.

Water & Air Research, Inc. (Water & Air) is a multidisciplinary environmental engineering and consulting firm comprised of engineers, geologists, biologists, environmental scientists, planners, and support personnel who provide a wide range of services to private and public clients throughout Florida, the Southeast, and other regions of the United States.