Purchase Order DOCRA133F12SE1746

This is a $248,045 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) Inc., a U.S. not-for-profit research and educational institution focused on oceanography and marine science. The grant supports a research project to quantify benthic cover and primary productivity of coral reefs across the Hawaiian archipelago using high-altitude AVIRIS airborne remote sensing data collected in 2016. The project aims to fill data gaps,...

This federal contract award is for a research grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the development of improved predictive models of coral disease outbreaks in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. The goal is to incorporate higher-resolution satellite-derived data, including sea surface temperature and ocean color, into the existing NOAA Coral Reef Watch decision support system. The $1,075,584.71 grant is being used to...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $35.468 million definitive contract to University of Hawaii for rapid resilient reefs for coastal defense on June 3, 2022, under cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. The contract develops self-healing hybrid biological and engineered reef structures to mitigate coastal flooding, erosion, and storm damage, with performance extending through June 2, 2027. The originating Reefense program solicitation, posted January 4, 2021, sought proposals...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary awarded a $66,459 firm fixed price purchase order to Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, doing business as Mbari, to provide restoration services for deep-sea corals located in the southeast section of Sur Ridge Sanctuary Ecologically Significant Area. The contractor will collect and translocate corals to build upon existing restoration techniques over a 24-month period of performance...

The National Park Service awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $249,149 to Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc., a non-profit marine research organization based in Sarasota, Florida, to provide coral larval propagation services for Biscayne National Park. Under this contract, Mote Marine Laboratory will propagate up to 15,000 juvenile corals derived from sexual reproduction of multiple Caribbean species sourced from wild corals within the park. Services include large-scale propagation...

This is a $119,332.51 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Johnston Applied Marine Sciences, LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for coral reef assessments and resilience studies on the island of Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This work supports NOAA's marine science and coral reef restoration efforts and was competitively awarded as a total small business set-aside. As the prime...

This federal contract award, identified as NNX15AR96G, was granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) for a research project focused on coral reef environments in the Hawaii region. The $205,758 grant supports concurrent field measurements, including the collection of hyperspectral remote-sensing reflectance, bathymetry, water optical properties, and underwater video, to evaluate the quality of Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging...

This is a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to the Coral Reef Research Foundation, a non-profit organization. The contract, valued at $15,253,046.00, is to deobligate 2006 funds and does not have a set-aside designation. The Coral Reef Research Foundation has received previous federal grants from the Department of the Interior, Department of State, and the National Science Foundation to support coral reef research, habitat mapping, and the...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Dwayne Minton, a small business contractor, on August 27, 2015. The contract has a ceiling value of $293,899.99 and a completion date of September 30, 2020. The contract is for the development of a coral reef assessment protocol and coral mitigation setting tool. This contract award is for the full scope of the requirement and is not associated with a...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a firm fixed-price Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call to Hawaii International Environmental Services Inc. (Hies), a woman-owned small business, to provide logistical and administrative support to improve coral reef ecosystem-based management for the Pacific Island Managed and Protected Area Community Network (PIMPAC). The contract, which was not set aside, has a potential value of $116,633 and runs...