Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance – Funding Office, a sub-agency within the civilian EPA, procures compliance assistance, enforcement support, and technical services to advance the agency's environmental enforcement and regulatory-compliance mission. The office transacts primarily through service contracts with modest grant-making activity.

The office has awarded 1,844 federal contracts since 2001, with combined potential value of $562.4 million and $422.6 million obligated to date. Recent activity has accelerated: 55 awards in 2022, 73 in 2023, and 98 in 2024, followed by a decline to 48 in 2025 and 39 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is December 3, 2026. The competitive landscape is moderately concentrated among prime contractors. Eastern Research Group Inc. leads by both award count and potential value over the last five years with 46 awards totaling $58.5 million in combined potential value. Plateau Software Inc. ranks second by potential value at $19 million across 4 awards, though this figure is not reported in the broader by-count analysis. The top five primes account for 28 percent of recent awards by count and 15 percent of recent combined potential value. Beyond the top tier, 674 distinct prime contractors have transacted with the office across the portfolio lifetime, indicating a long tail of smaller or occasional vendors. The set-aside portfolio is dominated by unrestricted awards: 92 percent carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides (competitive and sole-source combined) represent 5 percent of awards, with individual designations such as HUBZone, SDVOSB, and woman-owned small business appearing in fewer than 1 percent of awards each.

Grant activity is minimal. The office has awarded 8 grants totaling $4.9 million in federal dollars obligated since 2016, with no grant awards recorded since October 2024. The most recent award was over two years ago. Grant recipients are highly fragmented: four distinct recipients hold the portfolio, with the top three recipients (The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences Inc., and The Environmental Law Institute) collectively accounting for 46 percent of federal dollars and 100 percent of awards in the last five years. Grant assistance is split between Project Grants (63 percent) and Cooperative Agreements (38 percent).

No recent contract or grant opportunities are present in the source data.