DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 is a civilian sub-agency responsible for administering federal wildlife and natural-resource contracts and grants across the Northeast. Region 5 operates both a contract program and a grant program serving state fish and wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and equipment vendors for habitat management, species recovery, and environmental restoration work.

The Service Region has awarded 8,075 federal contracts since 2001, with a combined potential value of $526 million and $513.7 million obligated. Recent contract volume has been volatile: 253 awards in 2022, declining sharply to 41 in 2023, then rising to 72 in 2024, 173 in 2025, and 167 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent contract award closed on September 28, 2026. The contractor base is highly fragmented: the top five primes by award count—Moore-Clark U.s.a., Inc., Deere & Company, Federal Contracts LLC, Caterpillar Inc., and Marks Transport Services LLC—hold only 10 percent of recent awards. By potential value, the top five hold just 2 percent of the combined total, with Aaecon General Contracting LLC leading at $4.3 million across 4 awards. Seventy-five percent of all awards carry no set-aside designation; 23 percent are small-business set-asides, and 1 percent are 8(a) sole-source awards. Small-business awards, service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, and woman-owned designations collectively account for less than 2 percent.

Grant activity is substantially larger: Region 5 has issued 3,338 federal grants totaling $2.53 billion obligated (with total all-sources funding of $4.44 billion). Grant awards have averaged between 290 and 358 per year over the last five years, with 74 awards so far in 2026; the most recent award closed on July 1, 2026. Recipients are moderately concentrated among state fish and wildlife agencies. The top five by award count—State of Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Vermont Department Fish & Wildlife, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, American Conservation Experience, and West Virginia Division of Natural Resources—hold 26 percent of recent awards. By federal dollars obligated, the top five recipients—Pennsylvania Game Commission, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, and Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources—account for 16 percent of the federal total. The grant portfolio is split among formula grants (41 percent of awards), cooperative agreements (30 percent), and project grants (29 percent), with a small number of block grants.

Region 5 has 3,141 distinct prime contractors and 356 grant recipients. No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded in the source data.