This is a $46,500.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Applied Climatologists, Inc. on September 30, 2024. The contract is for modeling the drivers of blue crab recruitment, abundance, and resilience in the Chesapeake Bay using synoptic climatological methods. The work will be performed in Marco Island, FL and the ultimate completion date is September 29, 2025. The contract does not have a...
This federal contract award is for $21,666.10 to the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom. The contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) modeling of snow crab energetics under projected ocean acidification and temperature changes in the Bering Sea. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis, as NOAA determined that PML is the only vendor with the necessary...
This is a firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a non-profit marine research organization located in East Boothbay, Maine. The contract is for $120,378.00 and is for the stable isotope analysis of samples collected in the Bering Sea. There is no set-aside designation for this award. Bigelow Laboratory is the prime contractor and will leverage its expertise in microbial oceanography, remote...
The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $2,500 purchase order to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife for non-personal vessel support services in Willapa Bay, Washington. The contract has a firm fixed price and period of performance from August 15, 2023 through September 30, 2024. As part of its mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment, NOAA supports coastal research activities that require vessel...
This contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency within the Department of Commerce, to Saildrone Inc. to conduct King Crab Tracking Surveys using Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). The $158,952.00 firm-fixed-price contract is a delivery order under NOAA's ProTech Services Solution (PROTECH) multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. Saildrone, a for-profit provider of uncrewed maritime data collection...
This is a $13,301.60 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Duesterloh, Switgard, doing business as Alaska Ecological Resource Services, a for-profit woman-owned business. The contract is for non-personal services required to develop an inquiry-based science education: snow crab outreach unit. The award has a completion date of June 30, 2023 and was made on March 9, 2022. The contract was not set...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the College of New Jersey, a U.S. state government educational institution, to conduct a red king crab study. The $132,837.60 contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on September 16, 2017 with a completion date of March 30, 2019. Based on the vendor's history, the study likely involves research, analysis, and testing related to...
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science Office of Sponsored Programs Division has been awarded a $137,000 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to analyze up to 2,200 snow crab hemolymph samples for prevalence of bitter crab disease. The work will be performed in Glou Point, Virginia from September 2023 through February 2025. Per the solicitation, NOAA intends to contract with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as the sole source...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $31,500 firm fixed price purchase order to The College of New Jersey to conduct analyses of Alaskan crab cuticles (carapace and chelae). As indicated in the sole source justification notice, The College of New Jersey is the only laboratory capable of assessing the effects of ocean acidification on the microhardness of mineralized tissue in crabs at the fine scale needed, using combined micromechanical testing and structural...
The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $149,810 firm-fixed-price purchase order to the Gulf Of Maine Lobster Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide temperature depth services for NOAA/NEFSC facilities in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The contract has a period of performance through October 30, 2020. The Gulf Of Maine Lobster Foundation has previously provided data support services to NOAA through past prime federal contract...