Environmental Quality Management, Inc.

Environmental Quality Management, Inc., doing business as E Q M and operating as a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, is an Alaska Native Corporation-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business that delivers environmental remediation, hazardous waste management, and emergency response services to federal agencies as a prime contractor across multiple EPA regions, the Air Force, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The company operates under a heavily EPA-concentrated footprint, with 73% of recent awards concentrated in five EPA regional offices, and competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on time-and-materials delivery orders under master IDIQ and BPA vehicles.

EQM's capability portfolio centers on concrete environmental remediation services: mercury spill response and cleanup at residential and commercial sites; time-critical removal actions at Superfund sites and abandoned mining locations; lead and uranium remediation; hazardous waste transportation, containment, and disposal; oil spill emergency response; and post-disaster environmental remediation following wildfires and industrial incidents. Representative work includes a $40.1 million Southern California wildfire emergency response and removal services task order under EPA Region 9 (January 2025), a $22.7 million firm fixed-price lead and uranium remediation delivery order at the Cherokee County Superfund site in Kansas under EPA Region 7 (December 2023), a $23.6 million 2023 Maui fire remediation task order under EPA Region 9 (August 2023), and a $7.6 million East Palestine train derailment site emergency response and removal work order under EPA Region 5 (February 2023). Across these engagements, EQM typically engages specialized subcontractors—including Clean Harbors Environmental Services, United Rentals, Advanced Chemical Transport, and Tetra Tech—for equipment rental, hazardous waste transportation and disposal, and labor support, with SCI data showing an average 6% sub-hours share across prime contracts.

EQM holds five major prime federal indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring the federal footprint. EPA Region 10 awarded a $189.2 million Emergency and Rapid Response Services (ERRS) single-award indefinite delivery contract (September 2025 through September 2028) supporting time-and-materials hazardous substance emergency response across Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and tribal territories. EPA Region 9 awarded a $259.7 million Emergency Response and Removal Services VI (ERRS VI) single-award indefinite delivery contract (May 2024 through May 2029) under a Total Small Business set-aside for time-and-materials and firm fixed-price emergency response and site remediation across California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands. EPA Region 5 awarded a $287.1 million Region 4-6 Emergency and Rapid Response Services V (ERRS V) multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (January 2022 through January 2027) under a Total Small Business set-aside for emergency response and site remediation across the Great Lakes region. EPA Region 7 awarded a $350 million tri-state lead remediation Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) (August 2025 through August 2030) under a Total Small Business set-aside. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center awarded a $244.7 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (November 2023 through November 2028) for fence-to-fence environmental services at Air Force installations.

Customer concentration is acute and EPA-dominated. The top five customer agencies account for 73% of awards by count. EPA Region 5 leads by volume (413 awards, $1.26 billion combined potential value), followed by EPA Region 9 (332 awards, $1.13 billion), EPA Region 6 (228 awards, $647.6 million), and EPA Region 10 (158 awards, $408.8 million). By potential dollar value, concentration is even tighter: the Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command anchors 86% of combined potential value with 6 awards valued at $10.01 billion (reflecting the size of multi-year Air Force IDIQ vehicles), followed by EPA Region 5 and EPA Region 9. This extreme concentration in EPA regional offices reflects EQM's strategic positioning as a specialized rapid-response environmental remediation provider for time-critical emergency response and Superfund site cleanup work, where the company's Alaska Native Corporation status and small disadvantaged business certification enable competitive positioning under set-aside vehicles.

Activity has grown year over year despite recent moderation. Over the past five calendar years, award volume grew from 52 in 2022 to a peak of 45 in 2024, with 39 in 2025 and 21 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff shows 36 awards (combined potential value $85.8 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months—a material exposure requiring renewal or replacement.

SCI-reported federal services invoicing tells a story of rapid scaling. Prime-contract invoiced revenue grew from $15.4 million in FY2022 (17.0 FTEs) to $76.1 million in FY2025 (152 FTEs)—a five-fold increase in dollar volume and nine-fold increase in workforce. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts run around $332/hr, with the 90th percentile reaching $3,152/hr and the 10th percentile at $20/hr, reflecting a mix of field-level technician labor and senior management and specialized remediation expertise. The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio reflects this scope: 23 active categories spanning Field Technician Jr. ($60.19/hr, entry-level) through Program Manager ($199.51/hr, bachelor's degree, 10 years' experience), with no security-cleared roles. The rapid FTE growth in FY2024–FY2025 aligns with large-scale disaster-response mobilizations (Maui fires, Southern California wildfires, East Palestine derailment), suggesting that EQM's workforce scales heavily for emergency-response peaks and likely contracts down once incidents close.

Corporate structure reflects Arctic Slope Regional Corporation's diversification. EQM operates as a subsidiary of Asrc Industrial Services LLC, with one named sub-entity, EQ & CH Remediation (also Alaska Native Corporation-owned). This parent-subsidiary arrangement allows EQM to pursue federal environmental work while maintaining alignment with a larger Alaska Native Corporation that holds substantial federal contracts across defense and civilian agencies. The parent relationship does not materially change EQM's independent contracting posture—EQM prime-awards account for effectively 100% of the entity's award volume in the source data (2,389 of 2,395 total awards are primes; only 6 are sub-awards), and all sub-awards are against EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., indicating minimal subcontracting activity as the prime.

EQM's competitive position rests on three foundations: specialized technical capability in emergency environmental response and hazardous remediation; small disadvantaged business and Alaska Native Corporation certification enabling preferential positioning on set-aside vehicles; and established relationships with EPA regional offices that generate recurring task order flow under master IDIQs. The concentration in EPA work and the annual fluctuation in awards tied to disaster response (wildfires, chemical spills, train derailments) signal that EQM operates in a mission-driven, event-driven market where federal agencies place rapid orders for immediate response. This positioning creates recompete exposure if major EPA IDIQ vehicles are re-competed under broader criteria, but also creates lock-in if EPA's operational model for emergency response continues to rely on pre-positioned contractors under standing IDIQs.

Founded in 1990, Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (EQM) is a leading environmental consulting, stack testing, remediation, and construction company providing expertise in engineering and environmental compliance to industrial, public, and government sectors.