National Environmental Support Services (NESS)

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management National Office established this multi-award Master BPA for environmental support services on May 1, 2014, with a final ordering date of October 31, 2019 — the vehicle is now closed to new orders and has been inactive for six years and eight months.

The BPA executed 103 task orders totaling $14.8 million in combined potential value, with $14.7 million obligated (99% of the vehicle's capacity). Orders averaged roughly 17–18 per year through 2018, climbing to 23 in 2018 before declining to 15 in 2019 as the vehicle approached its ordering cutoff. All task orders are firm-fixed-price awards. Work spans preliminary assessments and site inspections at abandoned mine sites, engineering evaluations and cost analyses, environmental site assessments, remedial investigation and feasibility studies, and environmental assessments supporting NEPA compliance and land management planning. Representative recent orders address mine reclamation, groundwater monitoring well installation, cleanup at shooting ranges, mercury mine baseline monitoring, and PRP investigative research across BLM holdings.

Ecology & Environment Inc. dominates by contract value at $8.3 million across 28 orders, followed by Environmental Cost Management, Inc. with $4.8 million from 52 orders (the higher order count reflects smaller average task order size). Pioneer Technical Services Inc. holds 21 orders valued at $1.5 million, and Erm-West Inc. accounts for 2 orders at $236 thousand. The BPA is unrestricted; 101 of 103 orders carry no set-aside, with only one order designated partial small business and one total small business.

BLM's Nevada Region generated the most activity with 33 orders worth $2.4 million, followed by the National Office with 28 orders at $3.5 million and the Arizona Region with 11 orders at $1.7 million. The Alaska Region, though accounting for only 5 orders, holds $3.7 million in combined value, driven by large Red Devil Mine monitoring and remedial work. Roughly 83% of task orders concentrate within the five leading regional offices. Individual task order ceilings range from under $5 thousand to approximately $1.7 million, with the largest being Red Devil Mine groundwater monitoring work. Task orders typically span 6–24 months; many orders for ongoing monitoring or phased remedial work received period-of-performance extensions beyond initial completion dates.

The purpose of this multi-award BPA is to provide the Bureau of Land Management with environmental support services.