EPA Region 3

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3, a civilian sub-agency within the EPA, administers federal environmental enforcement, remediation, water-quality, and air-quality programs across Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Region 3 procures environmental engineering services, laboratory supplies, analytical equipment, and site-remediation work through federal contracts, and provides formula grants, project grants, and cooperative agreements to state environmental agencies and infrastructure entities across its jurisdiction.

Region 3 has awarded 2,521 federal contracts since 1997, with combined potential value of $2 billion and $1.72 billion in obligated dollars. Activity over the last five years remained steady: 92 awards in 2022, 107 in 2023, 100 in 2024, 108 in 2025, and 71 year-to-date in 2026. Contract competitive concentration is moderately concentrated; the top five primes by award count hold 37 percent of recent awards, while the top five by combined potential value hold 20 percent. Environmental Restoration LLC leads by award count with 123 recent awards and $144 million combined potential value, followed by EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC with 22 awards and $147.1 million in potential value. The remaining 718 distinct prime contractors hold the long tail. Eighty-one percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 17 percent are small-business set-asides across various categories (traditional small business, 8(a) sole source, SDVOSB, and others each under 1 percent).

Region 3 has awarded 1,501 federal grants totaling $8.83 billion in federal dollars obligated since 2005, with recent cadence showing 232 awards in 2022, 274 in 2023, 235 in 2024, 217 in 2025, and 19 year-to-date in 2026. Grant recipient concentration is concentrated; the top five recipients by award count hold 34 percent of recent awards, while the top five by federal dollars obligated hold 48 percent of total federal share. Pennvest leads by federal dollars with $1.76 billion across 32 awards, followed by the Maryland Department of the Environment with 81 awards and $850 million obligated. The Environment Maryland, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, and Virginia Department of Environmental Quality account for the majority of remaining top-tier activity. Grants split roughly evenly across assistance types: 36 percent formula grants, 32 percent project grants, and 31 percent cooperative agreements.

Recent contract opportunities span laboratory supplies (solicitation 68HE0327Q0001, due October 16, 2026), analytical equipment including mercury vapor analyzers and purge-and-trap autosamplers (68HE0326Q0025 and 68HE0326Q0023), and site remediation work at the Ambler Asbestos Piles in Pennsylvania (68HE0326R0019, due August 19, 2026, with multiple deadline extensions). Most recent awards closed on October 20, 2026.