Delivery Order GS23F0204L-NSFLPA0646829

Polarctic LLC was awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract valued at one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000) by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). The contract is for the development of a project dashboard and has a period of performance through September 17, 2024. The original solicitation sought Arctic Sea Ice Modeling subscription services for the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, as posted on the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment...

This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, is for the continuation and enhancement of the National Snow and Ice Data Center's (NSIDC) Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis (ASINA) and Greenland Today (GT) websites. The $1,307,131.56 grant will allow NSIDC to monitor and analyze Arctic sea ice conditions and Greenland ice sheet melt in near real-time, leveraging NASA-funded data...

This is a $587,279 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to study glaciers, sea ice, and polar bears in southeast Greenland. The work will provide the first detailed characterization of glacier behavior in this region, including changes in terminus position, calving patterns, and interaction with the surrounding environment. This data will then be used to understand the relationship between the...

This is a time and materials contract awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs to Chenega Worldwide Support, LLC, an 8(a) certified Alaska Native Corporation-owned firm. The $1,744,105.40 award is for occupational safety and health support services related to the Office of Polar Programs. Chenega Worldwide Support is a subsidiary of The Chenega Corporation, which also holds federal subcontracts. This contract has a performance period through November 27, 2027....

This federal contract award procures a year of Arctic travel support services to facilitate the travel of U.S. representatives of Permanent Participant organizations in the Arctic Council. The contract, valued at $157,501.35, was awarded by the Department of State Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs to The Aleut International Association, an Alaska-based non-profit organization serving as a permanent participant in the Arctic Council. The Aleut International...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has awarded a $9,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Land Info Worldwide Mapping LLC, a small business, to provide satellite imagery services to monitor polar bears in the Kaktovik, Alaska area. The contract, which is set to run from August 1, 2023, to November 1, 2023, requires high-resolution satellite imagery from the Pleiades Neo system to be captured multiple times over that period to detect polar bears on land. This award is related to the...

This is a $1,442,533.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Washington (UW) for research on "ARCTIC AND SUB-ARCTIC OCEAN CHANGE USING OCEAN BOTTOM PRESSURE (OBP) OBSERVATIONS." The grant will fund the continuation of the in situ OBP record at the North Pole and the start of a new long-term, drift-free OBP record in the Norwegian Sea at 66°N, 2°E. The grant has an ultimate completion date of May 13,...

This federal grant award supports the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to convene the 2016 Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) and Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) events in Fairbanks, Alaska. The $75,000 grant funds organizational activities, including logistics, meeting rooms, and workshops, to facilitate collaboration among the international organizations engaged in Arctic research. The events are expected to attract 800-1,000 participants from over 20 countries to discuss enhanced...

This is a five-year, $154,639,801.89 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Ch2M Hill Constructors Inc. for Arctic research support and logistics services. The contract has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2012 and was awarded on February 1, 2005. It is a definitive contract with no set-aside designation. The contract supports the NSF's research activities in the Arctic region, providing necessary infrastructure and...

This contract award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, funds the Airborne Interferometric and Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Permafrost Dynamics Observatory (PDO) project. The PDO will combine data from the AirMOSS and UAVSAR airborne radar instruments to simultaneously measure seasonal subsidence, active layer thickness, and soil moisture in Arctic permafrost regions. The $1,141,226.84 cooperative agreement supports research and...