Environmental Business Directories and Opportunities
Virginia is the home to thousands of companies that provide environmental goods and services. These companies range from individual consultants and technology entrepreneurs to large multinational manufacturers and service providers. The links below can help you find companies to meet your environmental needs. For environmental businesses, the links below can help you find partners, suppliers, and customers--including bid opportunities.
- Virginia Business Organizations and Resources
- Environmental Business Directories and E-Commerce
- Federal and Virginia Government Procurement and Funding Opportunities
Virginia Business Organizations and Directories
Virginia Business Online and Virginia Business Online Business Directory are online resources for news and information about Virginia's business communities. Virginia Business is building a comprehensive, online, business-to-business directory of companies and organizations doing business in Virginia.
Virginia Environmental Business Council is an industry association representing Virginia environmental businesses. It exists to enhance the business and job growth of both established and emerging environmental companies. It offers services designed to support member business development in both U.S. and international markets.
Virginia Environmental Services Network VESN.BIZ is a virtual marketplace for businesses and other organizations to buy and sell environmentally-related products and services. The site is also a resource for locating requests for quotes "RFQs" from Virginia industry.
Virginia Procurement Pipeline is a business-to-business (B2B) portal developed to promote and distinguish Virginia-made products and services. Buyers and sellers can browse through a database with over 6,000 Virginia companies that will reach international, federal, state and local procurement officials. The VPP is sponsored, in part, by the Virginia Department of Business Assistance.
Virginia Economic Development Partnership: Division of International Trade Development t website includes access to the the VEDP Exporters Directory (by clicking on the Exporters Directory under Online Export Services). The Directory is a database of all registered companies in Virginia with products available for export. A search tool provides a convenient way to locate information about any of these companies.
Environmental Business Directories and E-Commerce
Also see Technology Verifications and Inventories for related resources.
Ballast Water Treatment Vendors from theNortheast-Midwest Institute (NEMW) is a listing of vendors of technologies that may be applicable to the treatment of ballast water to mitigate or prevent the transfer of aquatic invasive species. See the NEMW Biological Pollution page for additional resources, including technology developer and vendor resources.
DEQ Air Consultants List from the DEQ Office of Small Business Assistance is a listing of consultants doing work in Virginia that offer air pollution control related services such as permit application assistance, equipment selection, engineering, maintenance, monitoring, modelling, stack testing, compliance auditing, and pollution prevention assessment, among others.
Service providers are invited to fill out a survey for possible inclusion on the revised list.
DEQ Petroleum Programs Consultants/Contractors List is an Excel spreadsheet listing consultants and contractors doing work in Virginia that offer remediation, sampling, analytical services, spill response, and other services related to petroleum storage tanks.
EnergyVortex.com Buyer's Guide and EnergyVortex are affiliated with Power Engineering magazine and provides various energy-related news, information, and links to resources.
EnviroBidNet is a resource for obtaining new bid opportunities for environmental, construction, contracting, engineering and analytical projects.
EnviroDirectory--Mid Atlantic directory of environmental goods and service providers is published by Environmental Marketing Group, Inc.
Environmental Design + Construction Green Book is a buyers' guide for environmentally sensitive building design and construction products and services.
Environmental Network International or ENI-Net is a directory of companies that provide products and services to the environmental and construction industries. It is used by buyers that represent more than $30 billion of contracting power to locate, pre-qualify, and request proposals from ENI-Net suppliers.
Environmental Protection Magazine Online Buyers' Guide is a publication of Stevens Publishing Corporation.
EnviroSource.Com provides a searchable directory of environmental technologies, products, services, companies, agencies, organizations, and other resources.
Green Builder connects to the Green Building Professionals Directory and other resources for environmentally and energy efficient building.
Green Pages serves as a global directory for environmental technologies, featuring listings from nearly 7,000 suppliers of environmental products and services from 143 countries.
Industrial Quick Search Directory: Air Pollution Control Industrial Quick Search (IQS) is a directory of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors that includes an air pollution control category; other directory categories may also be of interest to those searching for environmentally related products.
LGEAN Consultants Directory is a product of the Local Government Environmental Assistance Network, enabling users to search for environmental consultants by keyword, service area, location, or name of consultant/company. It provides information about environmental consulting firms, including a description of company services, local government references, and contact information. The site also allows consultants to submit information for inclusion in the directory.
Pollution Equipment News Buyer's Market is a publication of Rimbach Publishing, Inc.
Pollution Online, Water Online, Solid Waste.com, Power Online, and Safety Online are several of VerticalNet's "online communities" pertinent to environmental protection technologies. These sites include environmental technology news, vendor resources, and information on environmental business opportunities.
Renewable Energy World Suppliers Database publishes the details of over 5,000 companies and organizations from over 200 countries. All of them are renewable energy specialists. Companies can be located by activity, by geography, by name, and by any combination of these search criteria.
SBA PRO-Net and Central Contractor Registration Database are being integrated by the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Department of Defense, the Office of Management and Budget, and the General Services Administration to simplify the federal contracting process by creating an integrated database of small businesses that want to do business with the government. The integration of PRO-Net and DOD's Central Contractor Registration (CCR) databases has created one portal for entering and searching small business sources. This integration assists small businesses with marketing their goods and services to the federal government.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers is a comprehensive directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers, listing over 168,000 industrial product and services companies. All manufacturers are classified according to more than 68,000 product headings by Thomas Register's editorial department. The Thomas Register Order Online program contains searchable online catalogs from over 1,500 e-commerce-enabled suppliers. It also offers secure, real-time payment processing.
VendInfo search page is a repository of more than 400 listings of pollution prevention equipment, products, or services. The page allows you to find listings using a free text method or by selecting from various equipment categories. The site is supported by EPA.
VISITT--Vendor Information System for Treatment Technologies is offered by EPA's Technology Innovation Office. VISITT is a user-friendly database providing data on 325 innovative treatment technologies provided by 204 vendors.
VendorFACTS Vendor Field Analytical and Characterization Technologies System
Help Line at 1-800-245-4505 or 1-703-883-8448.
Developed by EPA's Technology Innovation Office and National Exposure Research Laboratory - Las Vegas, VendorFACTS contains information provided by vendors on the applicability, performance and current use of their products.
Waste Age Buyers Guide and Waste Age are publications of PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc.
Water and Wastewater.com provides access to an online buyers guide and industry directory, water and wastewater plant directory, newsletters, and other resources.
WaterTechOnline is a product of National Trade Publications, Inc. It includes an online buyers guide, news, and other resources.
Federal and Virginia Government Procurement and Funding Opportunities
Also see R&D and Technology Transfer and Business Assistance and Economic Development for related resources.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance provides access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. The CFDA page includes links to grant resources, FedBizOpps procurement opportunities, and the FirstGov official federal portal.
Department of Energy e-center offers information on DOE procurement and financial assistance opportunities. DOE's Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS) enables (and is sometimes required to be used for) submissions of proposals on-line.
eVA is managed by the Department of General Services as the Commonwealth of Virginia's e-commerce portal for state agency procurement. Companies can register as eVA vendors, identify and respond to bid opportunities, locate surplus materials for purchase, and sign up for automated eVA updates.
FedBizOpps.gov offers information on federal business opportunities, including procurements as well as solicitations for research, development, demonstration, and validation of technologies.
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.