Environmental Assessment Government Tenders in United States

Impact assessment, its statutory timetable and who is allowed to write it

An environmental impact assessment is a statutory process with a prescribed sequence, and the procurement has to fit inside it. Screening establishes whether a formal assessment is required at all; scoping settles which effects will be examined and to what depth, usually in consultation with the regulator; the assessment itself gathers baseline data and predicts effects; and the resulting statement is published and consulted on. Each stage has a consultation period nobody can compress, so a bid whose programme omits them is not credible.

Baseline surveys are the immovable constraint. Ecological, noise, air quality and hydrological baselines can only be gathered in particular seasons or over particular durations, and a survey done outside its valid window will be challenged. Competent expert requirements apply: many jurisdictions require the assessment to be prepared by suitably qualified people and to say who they were, so the bid names specialists per topic rather than offering a firm.

The commercial risk sits after submission. Regulator and consultee requests for further information, and in contested cases a public inquiry or hearing, extend the work well beyond the statement, and expert witness attendance is a separate and expensive commitment. Tenders should be read for whether that is included, capped or excluded. Independence matters too: an assessment written by a consultant with an interest in the project proceeding is vulnerable to challenge on exactly that ground, which is why conflict declarations in this category cover the wider group and not only the team.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys environmental assessment in United States?

GlobalGov holds 1,115 environmental assessment records from 331 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Usda-FS PPS Incident Procurement (83 records); USDA Forest Service (64 records); Usda-FS, Stewardship Contracting Branch (35 records); Usda Forest Service (26 records); Region 9 Contracting Office (18 records); W07V Endist St Louis (17 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 22% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are environmental assessment contracts worth in United States?

127 of the 1,115 records publish a contract value. The median is $175,650 and the largest single published value is $100.0M. By size, 47 under $100k, 44 between $100k and $1M, 18 between $1M and $10M, 18 above $10M. The remaining 988 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to environmental assessment tenders in United States?

Across the 1,042 United States environmental assessment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 15 days. A quarter of them allowed 10 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 29. 381 of them (37%) closed within a fortnight of being published, so on this market a bidder who reviews notices once a week can lose most of the response window before reading one.

How often are environmental assessment tenders published in United States?

United States publishes about 78 notices a month in this category, 931 in the last twelve months. That is 770% more than the 107 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 1,067, spread across 52 separate months of activity since 2 December 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 July 2026.

How does United States compare with other environmental assessment markets?

Among the 9 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental assessment market, United States ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United States itself, environmental assessment is the 29th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United States environmental assessment records on this page come from?

These 1,115 records are collected from 3 official sources: SAM.gov (1,095), Simpler.Grants.gov (12), Grants.gov (8). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Environmental Assessment tenders in United States

Showing 10 of the 23 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United States market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in United States

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