Purchase Order F17PO3320000383253

The National Science Foundation awarded a $650,000 Definitive Contract to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat. The contract is firm fixed price and will support the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) from April 27, 2022 through September 30, 2022. The place of performance will be Denmark. No subcontractors were mentioned. GBIF is an international organization that seeks to provide open access to data about all types of life on Earth. This award will likely...

This contract award is for funds to support the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), an international open data infrastructure focused on publishing and disseminating biodiversity data. The $650,000.00 firm fixed price definitive contract was awarded by the Smithsonian Institution to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, a non-profit organization, to aggregate global species occurrence data from natural history collections and scientific observations and make it...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Smithsonian Institution (Alternate Name: National Museum of Natural History, or NMNH) to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat, a non-profit organization based in Denmark. The $100,000.00 firm-fixed price contract provides funding for a special purpose fund from NMNH to GBIF. The contract has a performance period ending on September 30, 2025, with an award date of February 26, 2025. No set-aside designation was used. The...

The Smithsonian Institution awarded a $300,000 firm fixed price definitive contract to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat. The contract provides funds to support the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which is a long-standing program of the Smithsonian focused on aggregating global biodiversity data and making it publicly available online to inform conservation efforts. Performance will occur in Denmark over a nine-month period concluding on September 30, 2024. No...

The Smithsonian Institution awarded a $710,000 firm fixed price definitive contract to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat. The contract provides funding to support the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which aggregates species occurrence data and makes it available online to inform science and policy. No major subcontractors or set aside designations were identified. The contract runs from July 7, 2020 through September 19, 2020 to deliver biodiversity data...

This is a $109,714.22 cooperative agreement awarded by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct a citizen science needs assessment for the GLOBE program. GLOBE is an international educational and citizen science research program that allows teachers and students to collect environmental data. The objective is to expand GLOBE beyond just classroom participants to include non-students as citizen scientists, while maintaining the program's focus on collecting...

This is a $540,154 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), a non-profit research organization located in the Bronx, New York. The grant, titled "Surviving a Mass Extinction: Lessons from the Post K-PG Fern Spike", will fund research related to plant responses to environmental changes, particularly focusing on fern species. The grant has an ultimate completion date of September 7, 2026. NYBG has a strong track...

The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey awarded a $9,174 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to the Regents of the University of California (doing business as the University of California, Berkeley) for genomic sampling services. The contract was awarded on March 16, 2016 and has a completion date of March 31, 2018. The award was not set aside for any type of small or disadvantaged business. The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley is providing these services...

This federal contract award to The Great Basin Institute (GBI), a non-profit organization, is for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southwest Region Terrestrial Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) program. The $95,420 firm fixed-price delivery order contract is to provide data analyst services for BLM's AIM program, which monitors natural resources on public lands. The contract has no set-aside designation. As a prime federal contractor, GBI frequently partners with agencies like the...

This $850,647.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University to develop and implement a decision support system (DSS) for scenario planning, forecasting, policy development, and reporting related to Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) - Life on Land. The project aims to assist Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in meeting the Convention on Biodiversity 2020 targets by integrating Earth observation data and biological data to produce...