The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $90,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order to The Cultured Abalone Farm LLC for the purchase of propagated white abalone. This award resulted from a total small business set-aside solicitation issued by NOAA for the purchase of white abalone in support of the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) West Coast Regional Office Abalone Recovery Program at Long Beach, California. The contract has a...
This is a firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. The contract is for non-personal services related to the identification of invertebrate specimens collected during NOAA surveys in Alaskan marine waters. The total potential value of the contract is $58,557.00 and the period of performance is from July 1,...
Turnstone Environmental Consultants, Inc., a Portland-based small business specializing in wildlife surveys and ecological monitoring, was awarded a Firm Fixed Price BPA call valued at $276,626.22 by the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region for amphibian and mollusk surveys in the White Salmon, Washington area. The contract, awarded on May 26, 2023, requires the contractor to survey for target amphibians with incidental mollusk documentation, as well as target mollusk surveys with...
This federal contract award, valued at $202,000.00, was issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit marine research organization located in Sarasota, Florida. The contract is for the development of Close-Kin Mark-Recapture (CKMR) methods to estimate the absolute abundance of the Oceanic Whitetip Shark, a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. This sole-source, firm fixed-price purchase order is being procured...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $31,500 firm fixed price purchase order to The College of New Jersey to conduct analyses of Alaskan crab cuticles (carapace and chelae). As indicated in the sole source justification notice, The College of New Jersey is the only laboratory capable of assessing the effects of ocean acidification on the microhardness of mineralized tissue in crabs at the fine scale needed, using combined micromechanical testing and structural...
<p>The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Paua Marine Research Group, LLC, a woman-owned small business, to provide abalone survey and habitat research services. The contract has a potential value of $658,318.80 and a completion date of March 29, 2023. Paua Marine Research Group, LLC is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and a subchapter S corporation.</p>
Biodrawversity, LLC has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at approximately $98,000 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a freshwater mussel survey and conservation efforts in the Raritan Watershed region of New Jersey. The contract is funded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under their Environmental Contaminants Ecological Services Division program, which supports species and habitat research. As the prime contractor, Biodrawversity will...
This is a $120,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit marine research organization based in Sarasota, Florida. The contract is for replicating surveys in Taiwan to collect 1,600 randomly selected oceanic whitetip shark fin samples and performing DNA sequencing and microsatellite genotyping. This effort supports NOAA's efforts to determine the prevalence and origins of these...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $19,650.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Phase Genomics Inc., a biotechnology company, for next-generation sequencing of long- and short-read DNA and RNA to support draft genome assembly. This sole source contract is for sequencing of the Atlantic sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus), a commercially important species. The contract has no set-aside designation and is scheduled for...
This is a $165,707.50 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Chelonia Limited, a manufacturer of acoustic monitoring equipment based in the United Kingdom. The contract is for the procurement of FPOD acoustic recorders and RTWS (terminate for convenience of the government) to support NOAA's fisheries research and long-term monitoring of marine mammals. The award was made on a sole source basis due to Chelonia's specialized...