Paragon Professional Services, LLC (Paragon) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC), an Alaska Native Corporation. Paragon received 8(a) certification from the Small Business Administration in August 2016 and offers a wide-range of environmental investigation, consulting, compliance, and remediation services to both private- and public-sector clients throughout Alaska and the Lower 48. Its experienced professional staff is dedicated to producing high-quality documentation and providing safe field execution to support its clients’ environmental projects in line with local, state and federal guidelines and regulations.

Paragon provides a broad range of environmental science, geological, hydrogeological, and engineering support to perform environmental assessments, resolve regulatory compliance issues, and solve remediation problems for our clients. Our primary NAICS code is 562910, Environmental Remediation Services, however, we provide support in secondary NAICS codes such as 541620, 541210, 541330, 541618, 541620, 541690, and 238910. Our expertise includes:

Day-to-day management of the environmental operations is conducted by Jennifer Wehrmann, the Paragon Environmental Operations Manager. Ms. Wehrmann, along with Dan Graham, President, and Scott Blount, Director of Federal Markets, work together to develop and grow the business. Collectively, they have more than 80 years of experience managing environmental service programs in Alaska and the Lower 48 on behalf of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District (USACE), the Navy, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Paragon also manages permitting and compliance work on behalf of commercial clients. Project sizes for the federal and private entities have ranged from $5,000 to over $30 million.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has ruled in favor of allowing the evaluation of experience to consider past performance information regarding affiliated companies, and FAR 15.305(a)(2)(iii) allows the evaluation to consider key personnel who have relevant experience. This has allowed Paragon to build upon the services sister company, Eagle Eye Electric, LLC (Eagle Eye) while building its own environmental program.