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Environmental Protection Agency: $1.7B in contracts in FY2025
EPA buys Superfund and emergency-response cleanup, analytical laboratory services, environmental research and modeling, and the IT and program support behind its regions and headquarters offices. The regional response contracts are where the field work is.
Its mission, in its own words
Our mission is to protect human health and the environment.
As recorded on USAspending.gov; 2 sub-agencies and bureaus buy under it. www.epa.gov
- Small-business set-asides
- $157M
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.
- Set-aside share
- 9.3%
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations over all contract obligations, read 2026-11-05.
What EPA buys, by code
The NAICS codes with the most EPA contract dollars in FY2025: together $1.6B, 92.2% of everything it obligated. Each code links to its own page with the buyers under it across government.
| NAICS code | FY2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $769M | 45.3% | |
| $350M | 20.6% | |
| $104M | 6.1% | |
| $58.6M | 3.5% | |
| $52.8M | 3.1% | |
| $51.1M | 3% | |
| $40.6M | 2.4% | |
| $35M | 2.1% | |
| $23.2M | 1.4% | |
| $19.6M | 1.2% | |
| $18.7M | 1.1% | |
| $15.6M | 0.9% | |
| $13.9M | 0.8% | |
| $13M | 0.8% |
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations by NAICS code, read 2026-11-05.
The small-business share
$157,356,043 of EPA’s FY2025 contract dollars, 9.3% of the total, went out under a small-business set-aside: competitions and sole-source awards reserved for small firms, 8(a) participants, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned and women-owned businesses. The dollars primes placed with small subcontractors sit on top of that and are not counted here.
Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 set-aside obligations, read 2026-11-05.
The vehicles
Regional response action contracts
The RACs and emergency-response vehicles in each region.
Analytical services BPAs
Laboratory testing and sampling support.
ORD research IDIQs
The Office of Research and Development's vehicles.
OASIS+, NITAAC and GSA MAS
Professional services, IT and commercial products.
What GovSmith does with this
How GovSmith wins at EPA for you
GovSmith tracks the regional cleanup and sampling orders and the laboratory recompetes for environmental clients, and the vCM works the EPA OSDBU's outreach, where the region-level set-asides are decided.