National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price definitive contract valued at $584,719 by the Department of the Navy United States Pacific Fleet Forces to develop audiograms for mysticetes, or baleen whales, under the Living Marine Resources program. The contract has no set aside designation and work will be performed in Norveç through December 2024. The award stems from a 2018 broad agency announcement seeking proposals to improve understanding of auditory capabilities...
This is a $116,902 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command to the Cascadia Research Collective, a non-profit research organization. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for a project titled "APPROACHES FOR EXAMINING BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES OF WHALES TO LOW-FREQUENCY ACTIVE SONAR" under the Living Marine Resources program. The work will involve field measurements and analysis to characterize the acoustic...
This is a $288,239 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) to Foundation For Marine Ecology And Telemetry Research (Metr), a non-profit organization. The contract is for behavioral observation of marine mammals, with a focus on studying cetaceans, particularly beaked whales, to assess their behavior, population dynamics, and responses to naval activities such as sonar use. The contract stems from a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)...
This federal contract was awarded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), a defense agency, to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division. The $738,097 firm-fixed-price contract is for conducting density estimation of blue and fin whales in the U.S. Pacific Fleet Southern California Offshore Range using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data. The contract has no set-aside designation. As a large educational institution, UCSD Scripps...
The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a $368,463 definitive contract to the National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc. to conduct research examining the equal-energy hypothesis for long-duration exposures to continuously active sonar under the Living Marine Resources Program environmental research solicitation. The contract has a firm fixed price and period of performance from November 2021 through December 2023 in San Diego, California. There is no set-aside...
This is a $1,420,323.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to the National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. The contract is for a project titled "EVOKED HEARING THRESHOLDS FOR MINKE WHALES" and has a period of performance through March 25, 2025. The work was originally solicited through a pre-solicitation announcement seeking proposals for long-range science and technology projects that could advance and improve Navy and...
This federal contract award is to the National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, for a project titled "STANDARDIZING AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL HEARING THRESHOLDS WITH BEHAVIORAL HEARING THRESHOLDS". The award, made by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, is a firm fixed-price definitive contract with a ceiling value of $348,138.23. The contract has a period of performance ending on December 31, 2024 and was originally solicited through a Broad Agency...
This firm-fixed-price definitive contract was awarded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), a defense agency, to the Foundation for Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research (Metr), a non-profit organization. The $1,297,728.00 contract is for beaked and fin whale behavior research, with a period of performance through December 31, 2021. Metr is an experienced contractor for the Department of the Navy and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), providing marine...
This is a Firm Fixed Price federal contract awarded by the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a private non-profit research organization. The $1,052,424.00 contract supports a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) research effort to study hearing and noise impacts on three species of auks (a type of seabird) in support of NAVFAC's Living Marine Resources program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a...
This is a $151,012.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) to the National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. The contract is for behavior audiometry services and does not have a set-aside designation. The National Marine Mammal Foundation specializes in marine mammal research, conservation, and education, and has previously conducted research and provided support services to the U.S. Navy's Marine Mammal...
The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a $780,933.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract to the University of Queensland, a non-profit educational institution located in Australia, to conduct research on the "Development of Audiograms for Mysticetes". This contract was issued under a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) that solicited proposals for basic and applied research to improve the understanding and measurement of auditory capabilities of low-frequency cetaceans (mysticetes) to anthropogenic sound. The research is intended to generate mysticete audiograms through various methods such as finite element modeling, in-situ auditory evoked potential measurements, and behavioral response studies. This contract is not a set-aside, and the research is expected to be completed by December 31, 2024.