Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc.

Bhate Environmental Associates, Inc., doing business as B E A, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, that delivers environmental remediation, construction, facilities support, and infrastructure maintenance services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 818 awards totaling $12.68 billion in combined potential value. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open and has recently won work under both unrestricted and Total Small Business set-asides, with set-aside awards representing a material but not dominant share of the footprint.

B E A's award portfolio spans 55 federal customer agencies, with extreme customer concentration anchored in the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Civil Engineer Center (90 awards, $8.25 billion combined potential value), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville (136 awards, $1.59 billion), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Installation and Mission Support Center Installation Contracting Agency (75 awards, $870.3 million). These three customers account for 58% of recent awards and 92% of combined potential value, with Air Force Civil Engineer Center work dominating the dollar volume. The Army Corps of Engineers supplies the most award volume by count but ranks second in dollars; this customer concentration reflects B E A's entrenchment in regional Air Force and Army facilities engineering and infrastructure work nationwide.

Concrete capability work is visible across four primary domains. Environmental remediation and CERCLA long-term monitoring comprises recurring task-order work at Naval Air Station Jacksonville and other military installations for groundwater assessment, contamination surveillance, and compliance documentation. Construction and facility renovation dominates the Air Force footprint—recent delivery orders include a $27.96 million Total Small Business set-aside for environmental compliance services across New Mexico bases (Cannon, Holloman, Kirtland); a $20.7 million Total Small Business fuel tank repair vehicle spanning Laughlin, Whiteman, and Rosecrans Field; a $23.1 million fuel facilities repair order at Fairchild, Sky Harbor, and Tucson; and recurring build-to-suit and design-build work at Offutt Air Force Base spanning cafeteria renovation, parking lot construction, fire protection systems, electrical upgrades, and missile deck construction (aggregate value $20+ million across multiple orders). Hazardous material abatement and demolition comprises a third stream, anchored in Army Corps of Engineers facility reduction contracts valued at hundreds of millions across multiple regions (Facilities Reduction Program Pacific, Midwest, and Southeast vehicles at $95 million ceiling each) and including demolition of ammunition plants, signal towers complexes, and federal real property nationwide. Infrastructure support includes dust control, meter reading systems, roof replacement, HVAC systems, and specialized technical consulting. Recent obligated value across all streams stands at $727.7 million (6% of combined potential value), indicating B E A sits on established vehicles with substantial unexercised ceilings.

B E A holds five named parent IDV vehicles with combined ceilings exceeding $1.075 billion. The NASA Environmental Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement ($225 million, through April 2035, awarded May 2025) procures environmental compliance services across NASA facilities. The Demolition II Multiple Award Construction Contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($249 million, through December 2028, awarded December 2023) covers demolition, hazardous material abatement, and environmental assessment at Navy installations. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center Architect-Engineering Environmental Services contract ($100 million, through March 2035, awarded March 2025) provides architect-engineering and environmental services worldwide on a partial small business set-aside. The Army Corps of Engineers Facilities Repair and Renewal MATOC ($450 million, through April 2027, awarded April 2022) supplies quick-response facility repair, renovation, construction, and equipment installation across government installations nationwide. The Navy's Southeast Environmental Multiple Award Contract ($49 million, through March 2030, awarded March 2025) is designated Total Small Business. B E A additionally holds a Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations design-build and construction IDIQ ($150 million, through June 2027, on partial small business set-aside) and four $95 million Army Corps of Engineers Facilities Reduction Program regional contracts (Pacific, Midwest, Southeast, and West regions, through 2026). Outside IDVs, B E A maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position with 57 active task orders ($226.2 million combined value) spanning administrative, GIS, geology, hydrology, industrial hygiene, and program management labor categories at hourly rates from $47.73 to $201.55, all non-cleared roles with education from high school to bachelor's degree.

Activity trajectory shows modest decline in award count over five years (25 awards in 2022–2023, declining to 9 in 2025, 4 in 2026 year-to-date), but this reflects the nature of the large-dollar, long-duration IDV portfolio rather than customer loss—most awards are task orders against established vehicles. Fifteen awards (combined potential value $93.6 million) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across both set-aside and unrestricted vehicles. B E A's two named subsidiaries—GRK Bhate JV, LLC (minority-owned Subcontinent Asian American joint venture) and Bhate TLI JV, LLC (small business joint venture)—suggest teaming posture in pursuit of set-aside opportunities, though no named prime contractor relationships appear in the source.

B E A's award footprint shows no subcontractor role; the two sub-awards in the source reflect B E A as a sub to AECOM Technical Services on NASA environmental support work (February 2026) and an unidentified prime on facilities demolition work (October 2025). The vendor operates as a pure prime across its footprint. Recent award velocity and obligated-to-potential value ratio (6%) indicate B E A executes work under long-lived vehicles with substantial remaining capacity; the recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months will test retention at Air Force and Army facilities engineering vehicles where the vendor holds dominant position by dollar volume.

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