Delivery Order NNS05AA95C-NNS06AC11T

This is a federal contract award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), a non-profit organization based in Australia. The contract, valued at $884,959.50, is for genetic analyses of bluefin tuna samples collected in the Western Atlantic for the purpose of close-kin mark-recapture abundance estimation. CSIRO previously conducted pilot phases of this work and is being awarded a sole-source...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $900,141.00 grant to System Science Applications, Inc. for the Tunascape project. The goal of Tunascape is to develop a three-dimensional ecosystem model of the tuna fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. This model will describe how ocean circulation drives the distribution of commercial tuna species like skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye. The project will leverage NASA's satellite imagery and global circulation models...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $18,600.00 firm-fixed price purchase order to the University of Arizona to continue performing stable isotope analysis on Atlantic bluefin tuna samples for the period of September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2022, with four 12-month option periods available. This sole-source award supports NOAA's requirement for standardized isotope analysis to help inform fisheries management decisions. The...

This is a $120,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit marine research organization based in Sarasota, Florida. The contract is for replicating surveys in Taiwan to collect 1,600 randomly selected oceanic whitetip shark fin samples and performing DNA sequencing and microsatellite genotyping. This effort supports NOAA's efforts to determine the prevalence and origins of these...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $48,886 firm fixed-price purchase order to the American Fishermens Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, for albacore biological sampling services. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, supports NOAA's research objectives related to the North Pacific albacore stock assessment conducted by the Albacore Working Group. Key tasks include re-examining length-at-age data for juvenile albacore, estimating...

<p>This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Kona Tuna Co., a self-certified small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned business. The $87,380.00 contract is for a Bycatch Mortality Reduction Study for Sharks, with a period of performance ending on September 14, 2020. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation.</p>

This is a $75,600.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the American Fishermens Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, for albacore sampling, tagging, and research services. The contract has a period of performance from September 11, 2017 to September 10, 2018 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. The contract supports NOAA's scientific objectives related to marine research and biological sampling,...

The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded an $11,500 purchase order to Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research, doing business as Pier, for OPAH fish aging research. The research will be conducted at Camp Pendleton North in California under a firm fixed price contract running from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. NOAA supports scientific research programs to better understand marine ecosystems and this contract will aid those efforts by examining...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $124,812.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to conduct thiamine deficiency egg analysis for Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead in the Klamath Basin. This contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is part of a larger research effort to document the scope of thiamine deficiency complex in Pacific salmonids. The...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $148,200.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to the American Fishermens Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, to charter a vessel to conduct albacore tagging and sampling. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2017 and was not set aside for any specific business type. This contract is part of NOAA's ongoing marine research efforts, as the American Fishermens Research Foundation has secured...