This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the California Wetfish Producers Association, a non-profit organization, to provide vessel charter services to conduct annual acoustic-trawl-method surveys estimating the biomass and demographics of coastal pelagic fish species in the California Current Ecosystem. The fixed-price contract, valued at $723,441.91, requires the vendor to secure a purse seine vessel to collect nearshore echosounder...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $3,420,000.00 Firm-Fixed Price contract to Alaskan Leader Fisheries LLC, a small business, to charter a vessel to conduct longline surveys in Alaskan waters. The contract requires a vessel at least 35 meters long with 1,000+ horsepower, capable of 10 knots cruising speed, and equipped with specific longline fishing gear and electronic systems. The vessel will be used to measure groundfish abundance and collect size and age data...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $34,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Fish Downsea Charters LLC of Northfield, NJ for research vessel charter services in Grenada. The solicitation sought a contractor to provide a vessel, captain, crew, bait, tackle, washdown hose and fuel to target, catch and tag yellowfin tuna and sailfish from January through March 2024 in support of the agency's Southeast Fisheries Science Center habitat use studies...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $12,000 purchase order to Sea Breeze Sportfishing LLC, doing business as Seabreeze Charters, to provide vessel charter services for sablefish brood stock collection. The contract has a period of performance from July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024. This total small business set-aside was awarded under a combined synopsis/solicitation requesting vessel charter services to meet the technical specifications...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $34,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Fish Downsea Charters LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for an 8-day charter to support yellowfin tuna tagging. This contract was awarded under a total small business set-aside solicitation for the provision of commercial fishing charter services. The original solicitation was posted on December 6, 2022, with a due date of December 14,...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to the California Wetfish Producers Association, a non-profit organization, to provide vessel charter services for nearshore coastal pelagic species (CPS) composition and aerial survey research. The contract has a potential value of $138,915 and does not have a set aside designation. The contract supports NOAA's Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and...
This is a firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to HOC Services, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Homer, Alaska. The $78,400.00 contract is for the charter of a U.S. Coast Guard-certified oceanographic research vessel to support marine bird surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska over a 10-day period from July 10-19, 2025. The vessel charter requirement was originally solicited through Request...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency under the Department of Commerce, awarded a $20,160.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Experience Guide Services LLC for charter vessel services to capture and tag Chinook salmon in the Pacific Ocean near Grays Harbor, Washington to Ilwaco, Washington. The contract has a period of performance from the date of award through April 30, 2025, with 10 vessel days required. This was an unrestricted procurement with a...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for a purse seine vessel charter. The contract is valued at $92,000.00 and has a period of performance from August 26, 2018 to September 14, 2019. The vessel charter is to support NOAA's inshore assessment research activities in the Pacific Northwest marine environment. The contract was a 100% small business...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, awarded a firm fixed-price contract to Chantal C, Inc., a small business, for the West Coast Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey - Second Pass Vessel. The contract has a ceiling value of $2,131,400.00 and a period of performance through April 30, 2026. The contract was set aside for total small businesses and was competed under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 114111, Fishing. The contract...