Delivery Order GS10F0211W-ING16PD00170

The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $249,149 firm fixed-price purchase order to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit marine research organization based in Sarasota, Florida. The contract is for coral larval propagation services to support reef restoration efforts in Biscayne National Park. The services include large-scale propagation of multiple Caribbean coral species, maintenance and tracking of coral cohorts, and delivery of up to 15,000 juvenile corals to NPS. This...

This is a $248,045 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) Inc., a U.S. not-for-profit research and educational institution focused on oceanography and marine science. The grant supports a research project to quantify benthic cover and primary productivity of coral reefs across the Hawaiian archipelago using high-altitude AVIRIS airborne remote sensing data collected in 2016. The project aims to fill data gaps,...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a delivery order against its Coastal Geospatial Services contract to NV5 Geospatial, Inc. for $446,325.54 to develop a data visualization tool for the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. NV5 Geospatial will deliver the tool under a firm fixed price order with performance taking place in Charleston, South Carolina through August 2023. As a provider of geospatial products and services, NV5 Geospatial will leverage its expertise to...

This federal contract award, identified as NNX15AR96G, was granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) for a research project focused on coral reef environments in the Hawaii region. The $205,758 grant supports concurrent field measurements, including the collection of hyperspectral remote-sensing reflectance, bathymetry, water optical properties, and underwater video, to evaluate the quality of Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $150,000.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc. for "Bleach Watch Services for FKNMS in Key Largo, FL". The contract has a completion date of February 29, 2024 and was awarded on September 1, 2018. There was no set-aside used for this contract. Mote Marine Laboratory is a non-profit marine research organization located in Sarasota, Florida that has previously provided...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary awarded a $66,459 firm fixed price purchase order to Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, doing business as Mbari, to provide restoration services for deep-sea corals located in the southeast section of Sur Ridge Sanctuary Ecologically Significant Area. The contractor will collect and translocate corals to build upon existing restoration techniques over a 24-month period of performance...

This is a $119,332.51 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Johnston Applied Marine Sciences, LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for coral reef assessments and resilience studies on the island of Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This work supports NOAA's marine science and coral reef restoration efforts and was competitively awarded as a total small business set-aside. As the prime...

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, to NV5 Geospatial, Inc. The contract has a completion date of January 16, 2024 and a potential value of $495,569.50. The contract is for bathymetric mapping of mesophotic benthic communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Mesophotic coral ecosystems are found at depths between approximately 30-150 meters. This work will be performed under...

This federal contract award is for a research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the development of improved predictive models of coral disease outbreaks in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. The goal is to incorporate higher-resolution satellite-derived data, including sea surface temperature and ocean color, into the existing NOAA Coral Reef Watch decision support system. The $1,075,584.71 grant is being used to...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $108,564.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to CSA Ocean Sciences Inc., a division of Continental Shelf Associates Incorporated, to conduct underwater surveys to determine the presence or absence of Endangered Species Act (ESA) resources, such as ESA-listed coral colonies, elkhorn and staghorn coral critical habitat, and sea turtles, in specific Munitions Response Sites around Culebra and a site off the...