The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District awarded a $539,687 firm fixed price purchase order to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, doing business as the Salem Region Office, to conduct scientific monitoring and studies of the Oregon Bull Trout fish species. The contract supports meeting requirements under the Biological Opinion on continued operation and maintenance of the Willamette River Basin Project by aiding in reestablishing naturally reproducing populations and reducing...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District awarded a $420,162 firm fixed price purchase order to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, doing business as the Salem Region Office. This 12-month contract will continue the prime contractor's scientific monitoring and studies of the Oregon Bull Trout fish species through surveys and population data collection, as initially solicited through a special notice in March 2022. As the state wildlife management agency with expertise in...
This is a $615,144.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), which is the state government agency responsible for wildlife and natural resource management in Oregon. The contract is for monitoring and research related to bull trout and Oregon chub populations in the Willamette Basin. The contract supports the Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration, and U.S. Bureau of...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.6 million firm-fixed price purchase order to Fishbio for monitoring adult O. mykiss populations in the lower San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers. The contract, set aside totally for small businesses, calls for Fishbio to develop a monitoring plan, estimate annual escapement, collect biological samples, and analyze environmental factors influencing migration timing for steelhead populations through May 2023. The Bureau of Reclamation...
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will produce and release approximately 276,000 pounds of triploid, adipose fin clipped rainbow trout in the Willamette River Basin of Oregon under a $1.13 million purchase order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District. As described in Solicitation Trout Production, the Department of Fish and Wildlife will rear trout over five contract line items and release them between February and November 2022 according to a specified delivery...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) for $350,256.19 to provide bull trout tributary passage services in Kittitas and Yakima Counties, Washington. The contract is to establish safe fish passage conditions for upstream and downstream moving adult bull trout in tributaries flowing into Reclamation reservoirs during the spawning migration period, with options to extend the...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $640,420.18 Firm Fixed Price contract to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to conduct or monitor fish populations, specifically for bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and Oregon chub, in the Willamette Basin of Oregon. This sole-source contract supports the Corps' compliance with a 2008 Biological Opinion from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding operation and maintenance of the Willamette Project dams. ODFW has...
The National Park Service awarded a $235,737 firm fixed price delivery order contract to Otak, Inc. for a trout fishing study. The contract has a completion date of September 29, 2026 and was awarded on January 18, 2024. Under this contract, Otak will deliver the results of a study on trout fishing to support the National Park Service's management of fisheries resources within the national parks. The place of performance for the contract is Portland, Oregon. No set aside designation was used for...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $110,000 firm fixed price contract to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York for genomic services supporting lake trout restoration efforts in Lake Ontario. Per the solicitation, the contractor will compile genomic diversity data related to thiamine metabolism from multiple lake trout populations using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and established analytical pipelines. The sequencing and computational...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order worth $3,636,600.00 to Fishbio, a small business, to monitor adult anadromous O. mykiss (steelhead) in the Lower San Joaquin and Stanislaus River in California. The three-year contract, with a base year and two option years, requires the contractor to operate trapping equipment, collect biological samples, and analyze environmental factors to quantify annual escapement and migration timing in the Stanislaus River. This...