Environmental Management Support, Inc.

Environmental Management Support, Inc., doing business as E M S, is a small, employee-owned environmental consulting firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) delivering technical, analytical, regulatory development, and programmatic support services to federal environmental agencies. The firm carries no small business set-aside designations and competes full-and-open across its federal footprint.

EMS has been serving federal environmental agencies for over four decades with deep specialization in Brownfields redevelopment, underground storage tank management, risk assessment, remedial acquisition, land revitalization, environmental education, and stakeholder engagement. The vendor's federal footprint is heavily concentrated with the Environmental Protection Agency, which accounts for all 129 awards in the recent activity window and nearly all potential value: the EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management alone represents 124 awards with $311.3 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement places a distant second with three awards valued at $10.1 million. This concentration is not a funding-agency artifact — the top-customers ranking by award count and by potential value track closely, meaning OLEM dominates both volume and dollar share.

EMS's primary vehicle is the $100 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with OLEM, awarded September 30, 2024, through September 29, 2029, under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. As of mid-June 2026, thirteen call orders totaling $40.8 million have been issued against this parent BPA, spanning workforce training and management support for the CERCLA Education Center ($5.8 million and $8.5 million initial orders), Community Involvement and Program Initiatives Branch programmatic support ($2.6 million), Superfund Redevelopment Program site-specific regional support ($10.4 million), G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial Workgroup summit support ($2.1 million), Brownfields grant-competition support ($1.6 million), quick response tasks ($1.3 million), Land Revitalization Program implementation ($1.6 million), legacy hardrock mining remediation ($2.1 million), regional Brownfields programs ($858,619), and remedial acquisition framework support ($1.8 million). EMS also holds a secondary $10 million single-award BPA with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement through December 2026, restricted to BSEE and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management orders for peer review of research projects; two task orders totaling approximately $69,357 have been issued to date for tropical cyclone estimation and real-time monitoring best-practices review.

Older parent vehicles continue to generate task orders. An indefinite delivery contract (EPW13016) carries 30 task orders valued at $30.4 million; another (EPW13014) carries 52 task orders valued at $6.5 million; and a third (68HERH20D0001) carries 26 task orders valued at $10.3 million. These legacy vehicles are winding down — the recompete cliff shows only three awards with ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and a combined potential value of $12.8 million.

Activity has been volatile year over year but with a recent upward spike: three awards in 2022, four in 2023, sixteen in 2024, then seven in 2025 and five in 2026 through mid-June. The combined potential value across all 278 prime awards is $327.7 million, with $135.8 million obligated (41% of potential value). Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts from FY2022 through FY2024, EMS invoiced $7.1 million in federal services, an FTE trajectory declining from 8.0 FTEs in FY2022 to 4.7 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run a median of $141.49 per hour, with the 90th percentile at $198.56 per hour; the GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 27 categories from $66.30 to $260.32 per hour, with roles requiring bachelor's degrees for entry-level analyst roles and master's degrees for senior expert positions, and no security-cleared offerings.

EMS operates with a 18% average sub-hours share across SCI-reportable prime contracts and names twenty subcontractors across its prime service-contract base, indicating the firm builds modestly sized delivery teams but relies selectively on subs for specialized support rather than operating as a sub-feeder to larger primes. All work is performed at the contractor's Silver Spring headquarters; the vendor does not report geographically distributed operations.