Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc.

Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc. (doing business as B E A), a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, delivers environmental remediation, demolition, abatement, construction, and facilities support services as a prime contractor to the Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Air Force, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and 50 other federal agencies. The vendor competes predominantly in unrestricted (full-and-open) procurements, though a material fraction of its recent work carries Total Small Business set-asides; it does not operate under 8(a) or HUBZone designation.

Bhate's capability footprint centers on CERCLA site remediation, hazardous-material abatement, building demolition and renovation, facilities construction and repair, environmental compliance, and infrastructure maintenance—services rendered across military installations, federal properties, and NASA facilities nationwide and overseas. Recent representative work includes a $27.96 million Definitive Contract awarded May 14, 2024, by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (ENDIST Albuquerque) for environmental compliance services at Cannon, Holloman, and Kirtland Air Force Bases in New Mexico through May 2029; a $21.1 million Definitive Contract awarded July 21, 2023, by ENDIST Savannah for environmental remediation across 48 Installation Restoration Program sites and 11 Military Munitions Response Program sites at Joint Base Charleston and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base; a $24.4 million Total Small Business set-aside delivery order for API 653 fuel-tank repairs across Laughlin, Whiteman, and Rosecrans Field air bases (June 21, 2022); and a $10.7 million delivery order for wastewater-treatment facility upgrades at Beale Air Force Base (October 9, 2024). Across delivery orders and smaller task orders, Bhate executes recurring work in roof replacement, fire suppression and detection system installation, building renovation and interior restoration, parking lot construction, and airfield maintenance.

Customer concentration is pronounced and skewed toward Air Force and Army accounts. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 91 percent of all Bhate awards. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center leads by dollar magnitude ($8.25 billion combined potential value across 90 awards) but represents a mix of regional engineering and construction IDIQs; the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville ranks second ($1.49 billion across 134 awards) and anchors multiple-award facilities-reduction task order contracts; Air Force Installation and Mission Support ($870.3 million across 75 awards) clusters regional engineering and construction vehicles; Army Corps Engineering District Omaha ($512.1 million, 33 awards) covers demolition and abatement; and Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($401.7 million, 13 awards) concentrates on Southeast environmental remediation and demolition. By award count, Army and Army Corps of Engineers dominate (139 and 134 awards respectively), but Air Force dollar volume is substantially larger, reflecting higher-value construction and environmental compliance contracts.

Bhate holds five named indefinite delivery vehicles with combined ceilings exceeding $1 billion. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center awarded a $100 million Indefinite Delivery Contract on March 3, 2025, for architect-engineering and environmental services worldwide through March 5, 2035, replacing an earlier $100 million vehicle. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a $49 million Indefinite Delivery Contract on March 13, 2025, for Southeast environmental remedial actions through March 2030, and previously established the $249 million Demolition II Multiple Award Construction Contract (December 14, 2023, through December 13, 2028). The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established the $450 million Facilities Repair and Renewal (FRR) MATOC on April 12, 2022, through April 11, 2027, providing quick-response facility repair, renovation, and construction services at government installations nationwide. The Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations awarded a $150 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract on June 30, 2022, for design-build construction projects worldwide through June 29, 2027. Most recently, NASA established a $225 million Blanket Purchase Agreement on May 1, 2025, for environmental compliance services across NASA facilities through April 30, 2035. Beyond these vehicles, Bhate maintains active positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (57 task orders, $226.2 million) and the Professional Services Schedule (39 task orders, $564 million), indicating broad civilian-agency access.

Recent activity shows a declining trajectory. The vendor executed 25 awards in 2022, 25 in 2023, 22 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 6 through mid-2026. Twelve awards valued at $70.5 million combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window. The combined obligated value across all 820 awards is $735.4 million (6 percent of the $12.69 billion combined potential value), suggesting a pipeline of unobligated task-order capacity.

Bhate's GSA Schedule labor roster spans 25 categories, with hourly rates from $47.73 (Word Processor/Administrative Assistant, high school education) to $201.55 (Program Manager, bachelor's degree, twelve years' experience). The portfolio includes environmental specialists (Geologist, Hydrogeologist, Certified Industrial Hygienist, GIS Specialist) positioned at $75–$137 per hour, Contracts Administrator roles at $102.76, and senior Program Manager capacity at the upper end. No security-cleared positions are offered.

The vendor operates through three named subsidiaries: Bhate TLI JV, LLC (Small Business Joint Venture); GRK Bhate JV, LLC (Minority-Owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned Joint Venture); and Bhate Zapata, LLC (Small Business Joint Venture). These entities broaden Bhate's small-business set-aside eligibility on teaming arrangements but do not appear to anchor major prime awards in the source. Subcontract exposure is minimal: two sub-awards are named in the source (AECOM Technical Services priming on NASA Ames environmental support, and one unnamed demolition sub). The vendor operates primarily as a prime contractor across its 820 award footprint.

Engineering, Remediation, Construction, Demolition and reconstruction. General Contractors