Purchase Order 140G0326P0265
- Not listed
- The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey awarded a $800,100 firm fixed price purchase order to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The order is to lease a remotely operated vehicle to support data collection activities from September to October 2020 in the Escanaba Trough offshore northern California and southern Oregon. Specifically, the vehicle must have a depth rating of 6,500 meters and a 4,000 pound payload capacity to join the research vessel Revelle for...
- The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey awarded a $400,882 purchase order to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the lease of an autonomous underwater vehicle. The vehicle will collect geophysical and geochemical data offshore northern California from May to June 2022 when deployed from the research vessel Thompson. Per the special notice of intent, the sought vehicle was required to operate at depths up to 3,500 meters to accommodate payloads for seafloor...
- This is a $10,000 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the United States Geological Survey to Marine Applied Research And Exploration, a non-profit organization, to lease a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and provide associated mobilization services. The ROV will support the recovery of scientific equipment mounted on a tripod frame anchored to the seafloor offshore of Washington state at a depth of 240 meters. The work is to be performed between March 15-24, 2024 aboard the R/V...
- The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $25,354.97 firm fixed-price purchase order to Oregon State University on August 21, 2025, for remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services to recover an ocean-bottom seismograph from approximately 200 meters depth in Skilak Lake, Alaska. This contract supports the USGS Subduction Zone Marine Geohazards Project and requires OSU to deploy an ROV capable of hand deployment from a 25-foot vessel, equipped with real-time video and multibeam imaging sonar capabilities,...
- The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $90,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Outbound Marine LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the lease of a vessel equipped with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to recover scientific equipment mounted on a seafloor tripod frame off the coast of northern Washington. The period of performance is from August 1, 2024 to August 31, 2024. This contract is a total small business set-aside. Outbound Marine LLC has previously provided...
- California State Polytechnic University Humboldt was awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $23,850 by the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants to lease a vessel for marine scientific missions in the southern Cascadia subduction zone. This modification extends the period of performance through September 30, 2025, to enable the recovery of a waveglider deployed during initial scientific operations. The contract represents no set-aside designation and continues...
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division, doing business as Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to provide a research vessel charter. The contract has a potential value of $159,447.46 and a completion date of September 30, 2022. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. The original solicitation was a...
- The United States Geological Survey awarded a purchase order to Eclipse Group, Inc., a woman-owned small business, for vessel charter services on July 22, 2026, with a ceiling value of $386,703.20. The order is set aside for total small business and carries a firm fixed-price structure under FAR Part 12 procedures. Work is performed in San Diego, California and supports the collection of long sediment cores using specialized oceanographic equipment including a Jumbo Piston Corer and Vibra Corer,...
- The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey awarded a $327,780 firm fixed price purchase order to Liquid Robotics, Inc. to provide a seafloor geodetic capability project. As the single source identified in the agency's Special Notice, Liquid Robotics will deliver an autonomous ocean-surface vessel integrated with a GPS-A module and acoustic transponders. The vessel must be less than 10.5 feet long with a minimum 15 watt payload power and 4.5 kWh battery capacity to transport...
- The US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a purchase order to Alvi Brothers LLC for an 18-foot aluminum jetboat, 4-stroke Mercury 80hp jet engine, and trailer combo, valued at $49,995.00, on August 14, 2026. The solicitation was initially set aside for small business but Amendment 0001, effective July 12, removed the restriction and opened competition to all vendors. Place of performance is Huntington, NY, with delivery required to the USGS California Cooperative Fish...
The U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a purchase order to the University of Washington for $265,602 on September 1, 2026, to lease a global class research vessel capable of launching ROV Jason for seafloor geodetic benchmark operations. Performance runs from September 1, 2026 through December 20, 2027, in the Cascadia subduction zone offshore northern California at approximately 3,100 meters water depth. The vessel must be the R/V Revelle or equivalent, equipped with heavy-lift overboard handling (crane, A-frame, or winch), a dedicated Jason control van with pilot, engineer, navigator, and science stations, dynamic positioning capability, and a data center for real-time video, sonar, and sensor data compatible with ROV Jason. The procurement originated from a USGS solicitation posted August 7, 2026, with quotations due August 20, 2026, using FAR Part 12 commercial item procedures under NAICS 532411 (Commercial Air, Rail, and Water Transportation Equipment Rental and Leasing).
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
global class research vessel to launch ROV | 140G0326Q0193 | Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants | Solicitation 1/1 | 8/7/26, 3:53 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | Not listed | $265.6k | 8/23/26 |