The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a firm-fixed price contract to Rhithron Associates Inc., a woman-owned small business, to provide benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI) identification services in support of water quality and ecosystem monitoring programs in five NPS areas in the Pacific Northwest. The $147,185.00 contract includes a base period of 66 samples and four optional one-year ordering periods with 45-90 samples each. This contract is a small business set-aside under NAICS code 541380, Testing Laboratories, Environmental/Biological, and facilitates the monitoring of water quality, stream biota, and aquatic habitats for the NPS Pacific West Region. Rhithron Associates is an environmental consulting firm specializing in freshwater ecology services and has been awarded multiple federal contracts to provide macroinvertebrate identification and aquatic biota analysis services to agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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