Wakefield, Massachusetts - Metcalf & Eddy is pleased to announce that the firm has been awarded a $100 million contract to provide hazardous waste investigation, remediation, and oversight services to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 1, serving New England. The Remedial Action Contract 2 (RAC 2) will run for five years, with an option for a five-year extension. This win is one of only two RAC awards planned in Region 1, the second awarded as a small-business set-aside.
RAC 2 is a continuation of M&E’s work at Superfund sites, which began in 1989 under the Alternative Remedial Contracting Strategies (ARCS) program and subsequent Response Action Contract) program. Under RAC 2, M&E will continue to support EPA with engineering and scientific expertise for remedial investigations, feasibility studies, human health and ecological risk assessments, remedial design, and construction management at severely contaminated sites throughout the six New England states. Services will also include technical and management services supporting EPA’s coordination and oversight of remedial activities performed by potentially responsible parties or other stakeholders. Services in support of EPA’s Brownfields initiative will also be performed.
The work will now continue under the new contract with the goal of eventually removing more of these sites from the National Priorities List as cleanup is achieved. M&E will monitor and conduct five-year reviews of progress at many of the region's Superfund sites under active remediation and will contribute to land reuse studies for redevelopment of the sites once cleanup is complete.
”With this contract, M&E will continue to assist EPA in innovative ways to remediate these sites while making best use of scarce federal dollars,” said Steven Guttenplan, M&E’s president.
“The performance of our staff in past contracts was the key to winning this renewal,” noted Christopher Hagger, M&E’s RAC 2 program manager. “We’ve developed a streamlined management structure and efficient technical procedures that have benefited EPA in accomplishing its mission.” |
