Purchase Order 12FPC326P0013
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- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) West Region awarded a $31,095.30 firm fixed-price purchase order to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC for air charter services supporting the 2025 SNOTEL (Snow Telemetry) program in Alaska. The contract, set aside for total small business participation, runs through September 30, 2025, and requires the contractor to provide helicopter charter services to transport NRCS personnel and equipment to remote snow...
- This federal contract award provides $27,500.00 for flight services to support snow survey and summer field maintenance activities in the Chena Basin region of Alaska. The contract was awarded to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC, a small disadvantaged and woman-owned business based in Fairbanks. The contract was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) West Region under a small business set-aside. It requires providing helicopter charter services...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Alaska awarded a $96,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract for charter helicopter services to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC, a Fairbanks-based small disadvantaged and woman-owned business. The services are required from July 21-27, 2024 to transport crews from the Inigok Field Station to and from their study sites in the Willow National Petroleum Reserve-A (NPR-A) Soil Survey Area. The contract is a...
- The USDA NRCS Western Region awarded a $30,070 firm fixed price purchase order to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC for flight services to support snow survey runs in Alaska from February to December 2023. As part of its mission to assess soil, water, and other natural resources, the NRCS utilizes aerial surveys to monitor snowpack levels across Alaska each spring, information critical to managing water resources. Alaska Land Exploration will provide the requested flight services from its base in...
- The Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service Western Region awarded a $2,882 delivery order to Regional Helicopters LLC of Anchorage, Alaska. The fixed-price contract with economic price adjustment calls for the contractor to provide on-call helicopter flight services in support of the agency's SNOTEL program in Turnagain Pass, Alaska through October 15, 2022. No set-aside designation was used for this award to assist the NRCS Western Region in maintaining its snowpack...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a delivery order valued at $7,425 to Bering Air, Inc. for helicopter flight services to the Seward Peninsula SNOTEL (SNowpack TELemetry) maintenance site in Alaska. This contract, awarded on July 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of October 17, 2025, utilizes a fixed-price arrangement with economic price adjustment provisions. The award was issued without a set-aside designation and represents a...
- The National Resources Conservation Service, Western Region of the US Department of Agriculture awarded a $2,941.06 firm fixed price purchase order to Maritime Helicopters, Inc. to provide flight access to Anchor River Divide for maintenance of the SNOTEL site in Homer, Alaska. The contract has a period of performance from August 9, 2023 through October 31, 2023. It was set aside for total small businesses. Under this contract, Maritime Helicopters will deliver aerial transportation services...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a delivery order valued at $2,149.43 to Beryl Air LLC for fixed-wing aircraft services supporting McNeil River SNOTEL maintenance operations in Alaska. This delivery order was issued under a $20 million Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) established between the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center and Beryl Air LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Homer, Alaska. The IDC, which runs...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $14,340 firm fixed-price purchase order to Alaska Skyways, Inc., an Anchorage-based aviation services provider, to transport USDA personnel to remote sites in Alaska for maintenance and repair of SNOTEL (SNOpack TELemetry) equipment. SNOTEL is a critical federal network of automated weather and snow monitoring stations operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service; these remote installations require specialized access via float plane due to...
- This contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to El Aero Services, LLC, a small business based in Nevada, to provide helicopter charter services in support of snow survey and data collection operations in Utah, Nevada, and California. The Time and Materials contract has a potential value of $138,965.00 and a period of performance from February 2021 through February 2024. The services include providing labor, equipment,...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) West Region awarded a $37.2K firm fixed price purchase order to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC for air charter services supporting the 2026 Chena Basin SNOTEL (Snow Telemetry) operations. The contract, awarded March 25, 2026, with completion targeted for September 30, 2026, does not utilize a small business set-aside designation. Alaska Land Exploration, LLC, a small disadvantaged and woman-owned business based in Fairbanks, Alaska, will provide helicopter charter services to transport NRCS personnel and equipment to remote snow survey monitoring sites in the Chena Basin region. The contractor specializes in providing FAR Part 135-certified helicopter operations essential for NRCS's mission to assess soil, water, and natural resources across challenging Alaskan terrain. Alaska Land Exploration, LLC has demonstrated sustained performance on NRCS contracts since at least 2020, accumulating approximately $226.5K in prior awards for similar snow survey and field research support across remote Alaska locations. These air charter services are critical to enabling the agency's snow telemetry monitoring program, which provides essential hydrological and precipitation data for water resource management and climate assessment in Alaska's interior regions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $37.2k | 3/24/26 |