The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,542,929.00 firm fixed price contract to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Division to provide right whale early warning system support services in support of NOAA Fisheries' Southeast Regional Office. The 5-year contract, which runs from July 1, 2020 through June 14, 2025, does not have a set-aside designation. The contract scope includes aerial surveys, data...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $287,370 firm fixed price purchase order to Semper Offshore LLC of Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is to charter a vessel to conduct surveys of North Atlantic right whales between July 15 and September 25, 2021 off the Atlantic coast, with an option to extend up to 5 additional days. The solicitation sought vessel charter services for a base period of 21 consecutive days to assess the status of the endangered whale species as part...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, to Wild Me, a non-profit organization. The contract is for the development of an "End to End Identification Platform" for the North Atlantic Right Whale, valued at $97,113.00. The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 6, 2019 and does not utilize any small business set-asides. Wild Me has...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1,017,252 definitive firm-fixed-price contract to Semper Offshore LLC to charter a vessel to conduct North Atlantic right whale research surveys. The solicitation sought vessel charter services for up to 25 days from May through June 2022 in the Great South Channel and Gulf of Maine to accommodate 7-12 scientists, deploy and retrieve a rigid-hull inflatable boat and acoustic monitoring equipment in support of the agency's marine...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $2,739,371.60 firm fixed-price contract to the New England Aquarium Corporation, a non-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract is for the maintenance and curation of the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog for NOAA Fisheries. The work is highly specialized and requires extensive knowledge and expertise in managing all aspects of the photo-identification catalog, including maintaining the catalog,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $248,830.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to the New England Aquarium Corporation, a non-profit organization, for the provision of non-personal services related to the development of a visual output website for anthropogenic events data visualization focused on North Atlantic right whales. This sole-source contract, issued under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), was based on NOAA's determination that the New...
This contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to the University of Rhode Island (URI) to maintain the North Atlantic Right Whale Sightings Database. The contract has a ceiling value of $541,400.00 and is a firm fixed-price purchase order with no set-aside designation. The period of performance is a base year with four one-year option periods, with the ultimate completion date of August 31,...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $844,733 firm fixed-price contract to the New England Aquarium Corporation, a non-profit organization, to provide protected species aerial survey services in the Gulf of Maine focused on right whales. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a period of performance through March 1, 2025. The New England Aquarium Corporation, with its expertise in marine biology, ecosystem monitoring, and public engagement,...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to Associated Scientists At Woods Hole, Inc. for a North Atlantic Right Whale Survey project. The contract has a ceiling value of $137,500.00 and a period of performance through September 30, 2025. The contract was awarded on December 22, 2020 and does not have a set-aside designation. As the awardee, Associated Scientists At Woods Hole, Inc. will be responsible for conducting the required survey work...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Foundation for Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research (Metr), a non-profit organization, to provide non-personal services for field operations to deploy satellite transmitters on whales for the purpose of studying new implantable satellite tags and assessing the tags for possible future use on endangered North Atlantic right whales. The contract, which...