Purchase Order 1333MF26P0061
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- The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $33,700 firm fixed price purchase order to Wildsea Inc. to provide non-personal cetacean observer services in Gulf of Alaska waters from July 27, 2023 through September 30, 2023. Per the solicitation, the selected contractor will perform marine mammal visual observing, photo-ID photograph collection, photo database management, and seabird identification. This total small business set-aside contract supports...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $733,158 definitive contract to Center For Coastal Studies, Inc. on September 30, 2025, for field data collection, data downloading and organization, preparation of reports, and data analyses related to the deployment of satellite telemetry tags on large whale species in the Gulf of Maine and nearby waters. The contract is firm fixed price with no set-aside. Place of performance is Provincetown, MA. The originating solicitation,...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Task Order 0003 to The Whale Museum, a nonprofit organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, on September 1, 2025. Valued at $168,312.26 under a firm fixed-price delivery order contract, this task order funds critical marine mammal conservation and research activities through August 31, 2026. The work encompasses maintaining the Killer Whale Sighting Database, conducting vessel activity monitoring in the Puget Sound...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a delivery order valued at $100,087.95 to The Whale Museum, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, for whale research services. This contract, which commenced on July 27, 2022 and concluded on August 31, 2023, was awarded on a firm fixed-price basis with no set-aside designation. The Whale Museum, which specializes in killer whale research and monitoring with particular focus on the endangered...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a delivery order valued at $54,924.21 to the Center for Whale Research for in-land and coastal waters Southern Resident killer whale annual photo identification and health assessment services. The work will be performed in Friday Harbor, Washington, with an ultimate completion date of September 12, 2025. This firm fixed-price delivery order was issued under a larger single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with NOAA's...
- NOAA awarded a purchase order to Aqua Wildlife Research (Tamara Mcguire, a woman-owned small business) on September 30, 2026, for $398,000 (firm-fixed-price) to conduct a non-severable Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Photo Identification Study. The order is set-aside for woman-owned small business concerns. Performance is based in Anchorage, Alaska, with field work conducted in Cook Inlet via boat and shore-based surveys. The base period runs two non-severable 12-month periods (September 30, 2026...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a delivery order valued at $105,721.38 to the Center For Whale Research, a non-profit marine research organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, for Southern Resident killer whale photo identification and health assessment services. The delivery order, issued September 8, 2021, with completion targeted for September 14, 2022, operates under a firm fixed-price arrangement with no set-aside designation. This delivery order is...
- This is a $39,967 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Cascadia Scientific Services LLC, a small business joint venture limited liability company. The contract is to refine cetacean density models to support management of cetaceans in the Pacific Islands region. The work involves developing density surface models for various cetacean species using ship-based line-transect data, processing...
- <p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a purchase order to Alaska Coastal Observations And Research for $7,340.00 on July 8, 2026, for biological technical services supporting nearshore Pacific cod survey work, fish collections for laboratory studies, and fish sample processing in Kodiak, Alaska. Work is due to complete by September 15, 2026. No set-aside applied to this firm fixed-price order.</p>
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a delivery order valued at $189,343.00 to the Center for Whale Research, a non-profit marine research organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington. Issued on September 18, 2017, with an ultimate completion date of September 17, 2018, this firm fixed-price delivery order was issued under NOAA's active Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Southern Resident Killer Whale Annual Photo Identification and...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a purchase order to Wildsea Inc. for $30,000 on July 25, 2026, for marine mammal and seabird observation, photo-identification data collection, and photo database management during International Whaling Commission Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research surveys. Work is performed in San Pedro, California. The observer will identify and document cetaceans and seabirds, collect photo-identification photographs, manage the photographic database, and contribute to the cruise report. Operations occur in the southern Gulf of Alaska and eastern North Pacific Ocean (40°N to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone border, 135°W to 155°W) from late July through the end of September 2026. The contracting officer selected Wildsea Inc. on a sole-source basis under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), citing its unique combination of extensive marine mammal and seabird identification expertise and prior POWER survey participation; of five observers with prior POWER experience, two have retired, one has died, and the remaining three lack the required dual expertise. Wildsea brings over 30 years of marine mammal and seabird observation experience and over 40 years managing large photo datasets. The order is due to complete on July 14, 2027.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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NOAA Fisheries Special Notice of Intent to a Single Source-Cetacean and Seabird Observer Services | ACQ-26-0805 | Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Special Notice 1/1 | 6/16/26, 5:20 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $30.0k | 7/14/26 |