Environmental Monitoring And Technologies, LLC

Environmental Monitoring And Technologies, LLC, doing business as Sterling Labs, is an environmental testing laboratory and field services provider based in Des Plaines, Illinois that operates as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) and occasional subcontractor on federal environmental remediation, water quality monitoring, and analytical testing projects. Sterling Labs competes predominantly in full-and-open categories, with Total Small Business set-asides appearing on fewer than 15% of recent prime work.

Sterling Labs' capability portfolio centers on chemical laboratory testing, analytical services for environmental samples (sediment, soil, drinking water, waste, and air), groundwater sampling, data validation, and site monitoring in support of Superfund remediation, former military facility decontamination, and environmental restoration programs. Representative prime work includes a $295,745.83 delivery order from the Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District for laboratory analysis of smallmouth bass tissue samples from the River OU at Bradford Island, Oregon (2022); a $227,097 purchase order from USACE for organopesticides analysis and data validation supporting the Portland Harbor Superfund site EPA project (2023); and a $50,605.29 delivery order from ENDIST Seattle for environmental remediation work at Nike SL-10 (Marine, Illinois) and Crab Orchard EMMA-OU (Marion, Illinois) (2024).

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior. The top five customer agencies account for 45% of awards by count and 82% of combined potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Fort Worth leads by potential value at $5.5 million across five awards, followed by ENDIST Seattle at $1.8 million across eighteen awards. The Bureau of Reclamation (seven awards, $518 thousand), the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (five awards, $874 thousand), and the Navy round out active customers.

Sterling Labs' vehicle footprint is anchored to Army Corps Indefinite Delivery contracts. The IDC W912DW19D1033 carries nineteen task orders valued at $855 thousand combined; IDC 140R3018D0018 carries six task orders at $118 thousand; and multiple BPAs (W911KB17A0014, W9126G18A0003, AG82CSB160007) field between three and five task orders each. Most recently, Sterling Labs received a $1.5 million multiple-award BPA from ENDIST Kansas City (awarded August 2025, completion August 2030) for analytical laboratory services across Department of Defense and federal environmental programs.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat — averaging three to four awards annually over the past three years with a combined potential value of $12.5 million across all ninety-five awards in the source. Obligated dollars total $3.1 million (25% of potential value), reflecting the firm-fixed-price, delivery-order nature of the work and conservative funding obligation patterns. Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months, placing minimal recompete pressure in that window.

In its subcontractor role, Sterling Labs delivers laboratory analytical services to environmental engineering primes including Ch2M Hill on Iron King Mine-Humboldt Smelter remedial design work (two sub awards, June and July 2026), Jacobs Engineering on Milwaukee Estuary remedial design (July 2026), Tetra Tech on EPA Region 5 Superfund removal activities (April 2025), and CDM Federal Programs on remedial investigation and feasibility study analytical services (July 2024). Across both prime and sub roles, Sterling Labs' work is concentrated in NAICS 541712 (Testing Laboratories and Services), with 81 of ninety-five awards in that category, positioning the vendor as a specialized provider embedded in the federal environmental remediation and compliance-testing supply chain.

EMT is a DoD ELAP and NELAP accredited environmental laboratory and field services Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. We specialize in collection and analysis of ground water, waste water, and soil under various regulatory guidelines.