Portage, Inc., provides comprehensive engineering and technical solutions for environmental, infrastructure, and energy projects. The company supports federal, state, tribal, and local governments and private industry. Since incorporating in 1992, Portage has grown to a staff of more than 400 highly skilled technical and professional personnel. Portage is based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with satellite offices throughout the country.

Services

Portage's primary service areas are as follows: environmental remediation, including site remediation, cleanup of contaminated buildings, soil, and groundwater, mine sites, D&D support, and construction; engineering, including civil, chemical, environmental, mechanical, and nuclear engineering; hazardous and radioactive waste management, including waste characterization, packaging, transportation, and disposal; information technology and custom database design; project management, construction oversight and assessment; environmental planning, permitting, regulatory document preparation, and agency interface, monitoring, and compliance assessment; site characterization; environmental compliance services, including CAA, NEPA, RCRA, CERCLA, and CWA compliance; community involvement and DOE Citizens Advisory Board support; and energy services, including energy program management, comprehensive facility energy audits, and development of energy-saving programs.

History

Portage, Inc., is a full-service engineering and environmental remediation services company based in Idaho. The company was established in Idaho Falls in 1992 by Mike Spry, Nick Stanisich, Kevin Poor, and Harry Fugate, who originally met while working at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (now the Idaho National Laboratory).

Since its inception, Portage has grown from a small office in Idaho Falls to a 400-employee firm with offices throughout the United States. While the company headquarters still reside in Idaho Falls, major offices are also located in Los Alamos, NM; Carlsbad, NM; and San Antonio, TX. Portage supports projects in 20 different states as well as Guam, Iraq, Japan, and South Korea.

Portage has provided engineering, environmental remediation and other technical services to Department of Energy (DOE) sites around the country, including the Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in New York, the Mound site in Ohio, and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. At these DOE sites, we have performed many large and complex projects totaling as much as $80M annually. Portage has also supported the Department of Defense (DoD) through its Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) Global Engineering, Integration and Technical Assistance (GEITA) contract. Through GEITA we have supported more than 100 DoD installations worldwide, performing up to $18M of work annually. In addition to supporting DOE and DoD and their contractors, Portage works with a wide range of other clients, including the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho and Montana departments of Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Forest Service as well as private industry.

Portage has been included on Inc. magazine’s list of fastest growing businesses six times in the last 10 years, four times in the top 500. In addition, the company has been named the “National Minority Service Firm of the Year” by the U.S. Minority Business Development Agency, “Small Environmental Business of the Year” by Brooks Air Force Base, and “Indian Business of the Year” by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2010, Engineering News Record named Portage as a Top Environmental Firm (#45 of 200) and a Top Nuclear Waste Company (#7 of 200), and Inc. magazine listed Portage at #585 in its list of 5000 Fastest Growing Companies and #71 of the 5000 Fastest Growing Government Services Businesses.

Throughout its history, Portage has been a good corporate citizen and generous benefactor in the communities where we are located, supporting economic development, education programs, and local and small businesses. The company has assisted tribal governments in developing management strategies for environmental protection and resource development and has also provided employment opportunities, scholarships, internships, and mentoring to Native American and other disadvantaged students pursuing higher education in natural resource and environmental protection fields.

Mission & Values

Portage is the best-in-class provider of comprehensive engineering and technical solutions for environmental, infrastructure, and energy projects. We partner with our clients to create cleaner, safer and sustainable communities.

Quality

• We provide products & services that consistently meet or exceed client expectations
• We identify & implement processes and objectively measure performance
• We promote process improvement, efficiency & technical excellence in all that we do.

Integrity

• We are open & honest in everything we do
• We do what we say
• We adhere to high professional & ethical standards  

Safety

• We promote a culture of safety at work & at home
• Everyone is 100% accountable for maintaining safe conditions
• We plan safety into all of our work activities  

Job Satisfaction

• We strive to provide a challenging and rewarding work environment
• We provide a competitive compensation program and recognize performance
• We encourage a fun, innovative and entrepreneurial environment and a caring corporate culture

Sustainability

• We seek to continuously diversify our business offerings, consistent with the ever changing needs of our customers
• We develop, foster and grow a long-term business that emphasizes client and employee retention
• We operate our business in a manner that is sustainable to our employees, customers and the environment

Entrepreneurship

• We foster a progressive environment that empowers our employees to make decisions & take educated risks
• We provide employees the freedom to recognize opportunity and the support to implement innovative solutions
• We encourage business growth by providing solutions to meet client needs and by being proactive & results oriented