The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $111,246.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to the Smelts Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society (doing business as Smelts), a non-profit organization, to provide buoyless/ropeless fishing systems for pot/trap fishermen. This purchase order supports testing and familiarizing fishermen with these systems, which aim to reduce harmful interactions between fishing gear and marine life. Smelts has...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a definitive contract valued at $4.382 million to Smelts Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society, doing business as Smelts, located in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. The contract provides additional Buoyless/Ropeless fishing systems to fishermen through June 2027 for operational testing and familiarization. This builds upon an existing $3 million contract with Edgeone LLC awarded by NOAA to research efforts aiding the development...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $6,837,187 Firm-Fixed Price contract to the Smelts Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society, a non-profit organization, for the supply of up to 20 deck systems and 50 underwater acoustic release systems for buoyless/ropeless fishing technology. This contract is part of NOAA's efforts to develop new fishing restrictions to protect endangered marine mammals, such as the North Atlantic right whale, under the Marine...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $5,774,540.00 firm-fixed price contract to Ropeless Systems, Inc., a for-profit, veteran-owned business and manufacturer of goods, to supply buoyless/ropeless fishing systems for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The contract, with a period of performance through August 2029, does not have a set-aside designation. These specialized systems incorporate underwater acoustic release mechanisms that allow fishermen to retrieve...
The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a definitive contract to Ropeless Systems, Inc. valued at $5.75 million to provide buoyless/ropeless fishing systems. The contract has a partial small business set aside and runs from July 2022 through June 2027. NOAA issued a special notice to increase the value of an existing contract with Edgeone LLC to provide additional systems for operational testing and familiarization by fishermen. The systems aim...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1.8 million firm fixed price contract to Ashored Inc. of Ottawa, Canada to provide buoyless/ropeless fishing systems. The systems will support NOAA's research efforts to develop new fishing restrictions to protect whales as mandated by the agency. Under the contract, Ashored will deliver its buoyless/ropeless systems to fishermen for operational testing and familiarization through June 2027. This builds upon an existing NOAA contract...
This definitive contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Fiomarine Industries Pty. Limited of Australia. With a value of $2,175,687.05, the firm fixed price contract runs from July 1, 2022 through December 30, 2023 to provide Buoyless/Ropeless fishing systems to fishermen for operational testing and familiarization. The systems will support NOAA's initiative to develop new fishing restrictions through testing of ropeless/buoyless technologies, as...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,586,590.00 firm-fixed-price contract to Sub Sea Sonics, LLC to supply buoyless/ropeless systems for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. This contract, which runs from July 2024 through June 2025 with four one-year option periods, requires Sub Sea Sonics to deliver up to 20 deck systems (including controllers, transducers, and interfaces) and up to 50 underwater acoustic release systems. These systems are designed to...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $3,196,861.30 firm-fixed price contract to Fiomarine Industries Pty. LIMITED, a for-profit limited liability company based in Australia, to provide up to 20 deck systems and 50 underwater acoustic release systems for buoyless/ropeless fishing systems. The contract, which has a period of performance from August 2024 through August 2029, supports NOAA's efforts to mitigate the risk of marine wildlife entanglement by developing...
This contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Liftlabs, Inc. for the supply of buoyless/ropeless systems for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The contract is a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) award with a ceiling value of $10,629,490.00 and a period of performance from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, with four one-year option periods. The systems must include an underwater acoustic release mechanism to allow fishermen to retrieve their gear...