Hepaco LLC

Hepaco LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based for-profit limited liability company, is a prime contractor providing environmental remediation, oil spill response, and hazardous materials cleanup services to the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and federal civilian agencies on a full-and-open basis without small business set-asides. The vendor competes predominantly as a prime contractor (77% of recent awards by count) across emergency response and environmental mitigation work, with a smaller subcontractor presence to larger defense primes.

The company's concrete capability portfolio centers on oil spill containment and recovery, aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) mitigation, hazardous chemical incident response, tank cleaning, fuel removal and disposal, and environmental remediation across military installations, Coast Guard bases, and federal facilities. Representative prime work includes a $622,033 purchase order from the Coast Guard for AFFF deluge mitigation at Base Elizabeth City, North Carolina; a $950,000 definitive contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for AFFF cleanup at Naval Station Norfolk; a $489,719 emergency response contract with Naval Air Systems Command for E-2 crash response in Accomack County; and ongoing delivery orders from the Coast Guard for oil spill and hazardous chemical incident mitigation under standing vehicle agreements. Work is performed nationwide, with significant activity in coastal regions (North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio), at naval shipyards, and at Air Force installations.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward maritime and Department of Defense operations. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard dominates both volume and dollars: 149 awards (43% of the total prime and sub portfolio) carrying $12.2 million in combined potential value. The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and Naval Sea Systems Command together account for the next tier of activity, with Air Combat Command placing 17 awards worth $3.9 million and NAVFAC placing 14 awards worth $3.5 million. These five agencies account for 74% of award count and 83% of combined potential value. EPA Region 5 and the Department of Veterans Affairs round out the active customer set with smaller environmental remediation and hazardous waste handling task orders. The concentration reflects Hepaco's specialized positioning in federal emergency response and environmental compliance for maritime and military infrastructure.

Hepaco maintains three primary parent vehicle relationships anchoring recurring task-order activity. A $3.99 million Coast Guard Basic Ordering Agreement (awarded October 2023, ultimate completion February 2025) for nationwide oil spill and hazardous chemical incident response has generated 39 delivery orders totaling $845 thousand in combined potential value. Two additional Coast Guard BOAs (HSCG8415AP00023 and HSCG8410A500008) have collectively issued 59 task orders worth $1.9 million. Air Force Air Combat Command and Air Force Materiel Command hold Blanket Purchase Agreements with Hepaco for emergency spill response and environmental cleanup services at Langley and Wright-Patterson Air Force Bases, valued at $1 million and $495 thousand respectively, with active task-order issuance in 2023 and 2024. A newly awarded BPA with Air Force Materiel Command (December 2025, ceiling $249,999, completion November 2030) provides a five-year emergency spill remediation vehicle. These vehicle relationships position Hepaco for rapid task-order deployment under existing authority rather than re-compete for each incident.

Activity has remained episodic but elevated. Awards per year in the past five years show volatility — 16 awards in 2022, 51 in 2023, 31 in 2024, and 37 in 2025 — reflecting the ad-hoc nature of environmental emergencies and spill response. No future recompete cliff is present in the source data; the existing Coast Guard BOA runs through February 2025 with active task orders, and the new Air Force BPA extends to November 2030. Award obligated rates are high: 98% of combined potential value has been obligated to date, indicating contract execution rather than pipeline.

Hepaco operates predominantly as a prime contractor delivering its own labor and equipment (77% of 267 prime awards versus 23% of 80 sub awards). In subcontractor roles, Hepaco delivers environmental remediation labor to Environmental Quality Management Inc. on EPA Region 5 Emergency and Rapid Response Services contracts, providing removal and remediation work at Superfund sites including Blue Creek Oil Spill, American Lead, Sandusky Abrasives, and EXIDE Corporation sites with individual task orders reaching $1 million. The company also subcontracts to BAE Systems Maritime Solutions Norfolk Inc. on Navy ship maintenance and modernization availabilities (USS Laboon, USS Nitze, USS Vicksburg) for oily waste disposal and hazardous material remediation during dry-dock work. Sub work under AECOM and Huntington Ingalls covers similar environmental cleanup services for Navy vessels. This teaming pattern — primarily self-delivered prime work with selective sub roles on larger environmental contractors' EPA and Navy vehicles — indicates Hepaco builds and deploys its own response teams rather than relying on subcontractor networks.

SCI-reported federal service contracting captured only three records (all as prime) across FY2022–FY2024, showing 0.6 FTEs reported in FY2023 with zero dollars invoiced. The SCI dataset's strict $150,000 reporting threshold excludes Hepaco's numerous smaller delivery orders and purchase orders that dominate its actual revenue stream; this metric substantially understates the vendor's true federal services footprint. The vendor's award portfolio consists largely of purchase orders and delivery orders in the $5,000 to $250,000 range, which fall below or at the SCI threshold and typically are not captured in hourly-rate posture datasets.

Hepaco has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2002 and holds no SBA set-aside certifications in the visible award portfolio. All recent awards are full-and-open competitions with no set-aside designation. The vendor's federal contracting footprint spans 347 total awards (prime and sub combined) from 1995 to present, with the most recent award dated March 30, 2026 ($200,000 from Naval Facilities Engineering Command for USS Truman AFFF cleanup). Combined potential value across all awards is $28.1 million, with $27.6 million obligated to date.