Permits, monitoring and the evidence an environmental contractor has to produce
Environmental services are bought under a regulatory regime the buyer cannot delegate. Remediation, contaminated land treatment, ecological mitigation, emissions and discharge monitoring and habitat management are all activities that require permits, licences or consents held by specific people or sites, and the contract makes the supplier responsible for holding them while leaving the buyer liable for the land or the discharge. Verification of those permits against the actual scope is a routine part of evaluation.
The deliverable is usually evidence rather than an outcome you can see. Sampling plans with defined locations and frequencies, accredited laboratory analysis, chain of custody, calibration records for field instruments and reporting in a format a regulator will accept are the substance of the contract. Where a supplier both carries out works and verifies them, buyers commonly split the roles, because self-verified remediation is not evidence that will survive a regulator's question.
Ecological work is governed by seasons and by protected species rather than by programme. Surveys can only be done in defined windows, licences for work affecting protected species take time to obtain and impose method statements, and clearance cannot proceed until a survey is valid. Mitigation and compensation frequently carry aftercare obligations measured in years, with a defined success criterion and a liability to replace failures. A bid that prices the intervention and not the monitoring and aftercare period has priced a fraction of the contract.
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 services in United States?
GlobalGov holds 1,269 environmental services records from 202 distinct buying organisations in United States. The most frequent publishers are Environmental Protection Agency (329 records); National Park Service (96 records); National Institutes Of Health (93 records); Bureau Of Ocean Energy Management (58 records); U.s. National Science Foundation (53 records); Bureau Of Land Management (36 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 52% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Protection Agency | 329 | 26% |
| National Park Service | 96 | 7.6% |
| National Institutes Of Health | 93 | 7.3% |
| Bureau Of Ocean Energy Management | 58 | 4.6% |
| U.s. National Science Foundation | 53 | 4.2% |
| Bureau Of Land Management | 36 | 2.8% |
What are environmental services contracts worth in United States?
42 of the 1,269 records publish a contract value. The median is $2.3M and the largest single published value is $480.0M. By size, 7 under $100k, 11 between $100k and $1M, 7 between $1M and $10M, 17 above $10M. The remaining 1,227 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 7 | 17% |
| between $100k and $1M | 11 | 26% |
| between $1M and $10M | 7 | 17% |
| above $10M | 17 | 40% |
How long do bidders get to respond to environmental services tenders in United States?
Across the 1,164 United States environmental services notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 46 days. A quarter of them allowed 16 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 67. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 218 (19%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are environmental services tenders published in United States?
United States publishes about 24 notices a month in this category, 287 in the last twelve months. That is 857% more than the 30 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 357, spread across 210 separate months of activity since 21 August 2006. June is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 9 September 2026.
How does United States compare with other environmental services markets?
Among the 20 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable environmental services market, United States ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United States itself, environmental services is the 28th largest of the 85 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the United States environmental services records on this page come from?
These 1,269 records are collected from 4 official sources: Grants.gov (985), SAM.gov (280), Simpler.Grants.gov (2), USAspending (2). 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 Services tenders in United States
Showing 6 of the 10 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.
Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) – Energy and Environmental Technology Demonstrations – Open Topics BAA
E-Seal Technology: A New Paradigm for Leaky Well Remediation
Advance Notice: N6660426R3106 Code 45 Technical Engineering, Survivability, Testing, and Environmental Qualification Testing (EQT) Design (TESTED) Services
Sliding Gate Safety Deficiencies Remediation
Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Special Notice - Procurement Schedule Update
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