Region 2 Emergency Rapid Response Services

Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 established this Master IDIQ for Emergency and Rapid Response Services on July 27, 2020; ordering closed on July 26, 2025, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders. The contract covers time-critical removals and rapid remedial actions for releases or threats of release of oil, hazardous and toxic wastes, petroleum products, hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, and fire or explosion hazards across New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The scope extends to cleanup for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, acts of terrorism, nuclear, biological and chemical incidents, and natural or man-made disasters.

The vehicle has issued 113 task orders since August 2020, with ordering momentum declining sharply: from peaks of 18 orders in 2022 and 12 in 2025 to just 5 orders placed in 2026 (through May). Environmental Restoration LLC dominates with 68 orders valued at $48.6 million combined potential value; Kemron Environmental Services, Inc. holds 28 orders worth $19.3 million; and Guardian Environmental Services Co Inc. accounts for 17 orders valued at $7.2 million. These three primes capture the full portfolio. Combined task-order potential value stands at $75 million, with $65.3 million obligated (87% of potential).

EPA Region 2 itself places 97 orders (51% of volume) valued at $38 million in combined potential, while EPA Region 3 places 16 orders (14% of volume) worth $37 million in combined potential. Roughly two-thirds of orders carry no set-aside (75 orders), with the remainder split among small-business designations (38 orders, 34%). Task orders span time-and-materials pricing and range from under $30,000 to mega-orders exceeding $6.6 million; representative recent orders target hazardous-waste stabilization, mercury mitigation, building demolition and asbestos abatement, vapor-intrusion system installation, and dry-cleaner site remediation. Performance sites concentrate in New Jersey and New York, with work also in Puerto Rico.

Emergency and Rapid Response Services (ERRS) for time-critical removals and rapid remedial actions with respect to the release or threat of release of oil, hazardous and toxic wastes, petroleum products, hazardous substances, or pollutants, contaminants or fire or explosion hazards, that pose an actual or potential threat to human health or welfare, or the environment. This IDIQ also includes the cleanup for incidents involving weapons of mass destruction; acts of terrorism; nuclear, biological and chemical incidents; and natural or man-made disasters. These services are to be provided within the EPA Region 2 geographic area, which includes the states of New York and New Jersey, and the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.