Environmental Management Support, Inc.

Environmental Management Support, Inc., doing business as EMS, is a small, employee-owned environmental consulting firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering technical, analytical, regulatory development, and programmatic support services to federal environmental agencies on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. EMS has generated $350.5 million in combined potential value across 284 federal awards over the past several years, with $143.1 million obligated to date, establishing a narrow but deep customer concentration at the Environmental Protection Agency that accounts for 99% of the vendor's dollar pipeline.

EMS's customer footprint is almost entirely EPA-centric. The EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) dominates, with 127 awards carrying $330.9 million in combined potential value, followed distantly by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) with three awards worth $10.1 million and the EPA Office of the Administrator with five awards totaling $3.3 million. The remaining customer base—the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance—account for less than one percent of the pipeline. This concentration reflects EMS's strategic positioning as OLEM's primary technical services partner for land remediation, Brownfields redevelopment, and environmental program delivery.

EMS's prime vehicle position centers on two major indefinite delivery vehicles and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. The $100 million OLEM Mission Support Services multiple-award BPA, awarded September 30, 2024, through September 29, 2029, has generated 19 task orders worth $63.8 million and serves as the growth vehicle for most new work. The vendor also sits on a $10 million single-award BPA with BSEE for peer review of research projects, awarded through December 2027, and holds three legacy EPA IDCs (EPW13014, EPW13016, 68HERH20D0001) that together have generated 108 task orders worth $47.1 million but are reaching maturity. GSA Multiple Award Schedule work contributes 25 task orders valued at $173.9 million across various EPA divisions and programs. Recent representative awards include a $12.18 million BPA call from OLEM for Superfund Technical Assistance Services for Communities (September 2026), a $10.92 million call for Superfund Redevelopment Program development and communications (September 2026), and an $8.47 million call for CERCLA Education Center learning and development support (July 2025).

The vendor's capability portfolio spans Brownfields redevelopment, underground storage tank management, Superfund site remediation, land revitalization, risk assessment, environmental education, stakeholder engagement, and technical writing—delivered through labor-hour and time-and-materials pricing structures. GSA Schedule labor rates range from $66.30/hr for entry-level event specialists to $260.32/hr for senior national experts, with no security-cleared roles in the portfolio. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, EMS invoiced $10.2 million in FY2022–FY2025, with median government-paid hourly rates around $141.49/hr and senior labor pricing through $237.67/hr. The vendor self-performs most work, with an average of 20% of contracted hours subcontracted across SCI-reportable prime contracts and 31 named subcontractors reported in that dataset.

Activity trajectory shows uneven growth. Awards averaged three to four per year from 2022 to 2023, then jumped to 16 in 2024 before declining to seven in 2025 and eleven in 2026. This volatility reflects the timing of OLEM task order issuance against the new $100 million BPA. Only three awards (combined potential value $12.5 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited immediate recompete exposure and strong baseline continuity under the legacy IDCs and the mature OLEM vehicle. SCI-reported workforce has fluctuated between 5.5 and 9.5 FTEs across the four-year window, averaging 6.5 FTEs—a signal that federal service-contract activity represents a fraction of EMS's total enterprise footprint. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime with zero subcontract revenue reported in the award record, underscoring a build-to-suit, non-teaming business model focused on direct EPA delivery.