Purchase Order 140G0224P0115

The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $16,692.40 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Big Fin LLC, doing business as Big Fin Scientific, for the supply of six electronic fish measuring boards to support the Great Lakes Science Center's operations in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The boards must be commercially available, waterproof, able to wirelessly transmit data to the agency's Fisheries Environment for Electronic Data (FEED) system, and capable of measuring fish up to 1000mm with 1mm accuracy. This sources sought notice did not include a set-aside designation. As a self-certified small disadvantaged business, Big Fin Scientific has provided similar electronic fish measuring equipment and software to other agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the past to support their fisheries data collection and management needs.