Purchase Order 140G0324P0100
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- Optasense Inc. was awarded a $320,941 firm fixed price purchase order by the United States Geological Survey to provide a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing interrogator system and associated processing hardware. This award fulfills requirements set forth in a pre-solicitation notice seeking quotations for a twenty week rental of seismic monitoring equipment to be deployed on a shore-based cable along the Pacific Coast. The equipment will be used by the USGS Earthquake Science Center to...
- The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $75,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Optasense Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to rent a fiber optic sensing system for 8 weeks. The system will be deployed on a shore-based cable on the Pacific Coast to record seismic data and monitor for earthquakes. This purchase order was issued under a total small business set-aside solicitation. Optasense Inc. is a subsidiary of Luna...
- The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $380,936.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Luna Innovations Incorporated, a small business manufacturer based in Roanoke, Virginia. The contract is for the deployment of an OptaSense QuantX interrogator system to collect seismic data on a fiber optic cable in Arcata, California. The period of performance includes a base year from September 1, 2023 to August 30, 2024, with two optional one-year extensions. There is no set-aside designation for this...
- The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center awarded a $236,300 firm fixed-price purchase order to Optasense Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide a data acquisition system for an optical interrogator unit. The contract was issued on a sole-source basis and was not set aside. Optasense Inc. has previously received multiple federal contract awards from the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and the...
- This is a $243,300.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian agency, to Kinemetrics Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturing company, to provide 15 Q330HR seismic digitizer measurement devices for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Kinemetrics is a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based OYO Corporation and a provider of specialized seismic monitoring equipment. The company has delivered similar products and services to the USGS, National Oceanic...
- This is a $96,200 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc. (ISTI), a small business subchapter S corporation, for "SHAKE ALERT UPGRADES AND SUPPORT." The contract is not designated as a set-aside. The award is associated with a larger $1.5 million single-award USGS contract with ISTI that is focused on supporting the Advanced National Seismic System, including the...
- This is a $68,004 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian federal agency, to Kinemetrics Inc., a manufacturer of seismic monitoring equipment based in Pasadena, California. The contract is for the delivery of an "HR6 DAS 6 Channel Acquisition System" and does not have a set-aside designation. Kinemetrics Inc. is a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based OYO Corporation, which provides various geological and environmental services to...
- The U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Geometrics, Inc. on July 24, 2025, for a Seismograph and Seismic Refraction Kit with a ceiling value of $33,345. The contract was awarded without any set-aside designation through a competitive Request for Quotation process following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) procedures for commercial items. Geometrics, Inc., a San Jose, California-based subsidiary of Japanese company OYO...
- This is a $236,005.00 firm fixed-price delivery order awarded to Kinemetrics Inc., a California-based manufacturer of seismic monitoring equipment and a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based OYO Corporation. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on July 9, 2025 by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, a civilian agency, with a period of performance ending on September 30, 2025. Kinemetrics is a key supplier of advanced seismic instrumentation, sensors, data loggers, and...
- On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a delivery order valued at $79,965 to Kinemetrics Inc. for seismic equipment. This delivery order (DO#1) was issued against the company's $20 million, five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract (140G0325D0004) awarded in May 2025 to support the USGS's earthquake and volcano monitoring missions. The contract is a firm fixed-price award with no set-aside designation, and work will be...
This is a $130,000.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to Optasense Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to provide a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) interrogator. The interrogator will be used to support the USGS ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system by simultaneously monitoring multiple submarine fiber optic cables located offshore of major West Coast cities. The contract has no set-aside designation. The interrogator must be capable of collecting seismic data from at least four fibers at 200 samples per second without switching, integrate with USGS algorithms, and include at least 50TB of storage. This contract award is the result of a solicitation posted on February 2, 2024, with quotes due on February 12, 2024. Optasense Inc. has previously received other federal contracts and sub-awards, including from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to provide DAS interrogators and fiber optic sensing systems for government agencies.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) interrogator | 140G0324Q0053 | Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants | Solicitation 1/1 | 2/2/24, 4:38 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 8/22/24 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $130.0k | 2/22/24 |