Purchase Order 1305M324P0529

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $231,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Hefring Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for the procurement of Hefring OceanScout autonomous underwater gliders. These gliders will be used to monitor marine mammals and ocean soundscapes around offshore wind energy lease areas off the West Coast of the United States. The gliders must be delivered to La Jolla, California by November 1,...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Embedded Ocean Systems, a for-profit organization, on November 3, 2024. The contract is valued at $9,850.00 and has an ultimate completion date of December 15, 2024. The contract is for the Ecosystem Research Division (ESD) of NOAA, which operates a fleet of ecosystem gliders equipped with active sonars for fish detection, cameras to quantify plankton, and other oceanographic...

This is a $1,166,745.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Liquid Robotics, Inc., a subsidiary of The Boeing Company, for "Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Hawaiian Islands." The contract has no set-aside designation. Liquid Robotics specializes in autonomous marine robotics, particularly the Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle (USV), and has secured numerous prior federal contracts supporting...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to HII Unmanned Systems, Inc. for the purchase of Seaglider spare parts for refurbishment. The award was made on a sole-source basis without a set-aside designation, as NOAA determined that HII Unmanned Systems, Inc. is the only vendor that manufactures and distributes Seaglider parts. The Seaglider is a proprietary technology of the University of Washington, and...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order valued at $225,719.20 to HII Unmanned Systems, Inc. for the procurement of Seaglider spare parts. Seagliders are proprietary unmanned underwater vehicles developed and manufactured by Hydroid, Inc. under an exclusive license from the University of Washington. NOAA determined that Hydroid is the sole source capable of providing the necessary spare parts, as these parts are...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $61,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to NortekUSA, Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the purchase of 2 Nortek echosounders. The contract has no set-aside designation and is expected to be completed by May 1, 2025. This sole-source procurement is to support NOAA's Ecosystem Science Division's marine research program, which utilizes autonomous glider systems to assess zooplankton and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $387,192 delivery order to Saildrone Inc. for unmanned surface vehicle survey services. This contract was issued on April 21, 2021, with a completion date of December 31, 2021, and represents a firm fixed-price engagement with no small business set-aside. The work is to be performed in La Jolla, California, and falls under the NOAA ProTech Services Solution (ProTech) master indefinite delivery vehicle, which provides NOAA...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO), awarded a $3.82M firm fixed-price delivery order to Saildrone Inc. on October 1, 2025, for uncrewed maritime systems (UMS) to support meteorological and oceanographic observations. The contract, which extends through September 30, 2027, will be performed at Saildrone's headquarters in Alameda, California. This delivery order was issued without a set-aside designation and represents...

This contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to AML Oceanographic LTD, a foreign-owned for-profit organization. The contract, valued at $29,805.00, is for AML Oceanographic to provide calibration, service, and repairs to the AML Oceanographic MVP-200 onboard the NOAA Ship Rainier. This is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of November 30, 2024. The contract was awarded...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $991,470 firm fixed-price delivery order to Saildrone Inc., a small business specializing in autonomous unmanned surface vessels (USVs) for maritime data collection. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is scheduled for completion by September 9, 2026, and supports NOAA's Uncrewed Maritime Systems (UMS) program for meteorological and oceanographic observations. Work will be performed in Alameda, California, where...