562112: Hazardous Waste Collection

Buyers in this code are mostly federal health, drug enforcement, and military sites. The National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Navy's Marianas office, and a Dugway proving ground unit account for the top spending. The record shows 14,666 awards worth $1.13B from FY2001 to FY2027, shared among 539 vendors. Most awards are small. The median is $8.4K, but the average works out to roughly $77K, so a few large awards carry much of the total. The Dugway and NIH lines show high dollars on few awards, while the FDA and DEA headquarters lines show many smaller buys. The notice does not say how any single buyer chooses its vendors.

Competition looks open on paper. Of the 14,666 awards, 8,792 are coded NONE for set-aside, and 2,413 have no set-aside recorded. The SBA code appears on 2,171 awards, and smaller counts appear under the 8AN, SDVOSBC, SDVOSBS, HZC, and SBP codes. The notice does not explain what each code requires, or whether a firm's size or status must match a given code. A firm deciding whether to pursue this code should check the set-aside label on each solicitation it reviews, not rely on this summary.

Over the next year, the main signal is turnover. The record shows 319 contracts ending within 12 months, worth $110.84M, plus 15 active notices right now. Those expiring awards show where follow-on buying may come from, but the notice does not say whether they will be re-competed, bundled, or renewed. Watch the active notices for the buyers above, and check whether the expiring contracts appear on the agencies' upcoming-requirements lists. Track the set-aside codes on any new notices, since the data does not show how the mix will change.