The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded a $250 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) for Hydrographic Surveying Services to Woolpert, Inc. and its subsidiary Etrac, Inc. The contract provides NOAA and other federal agencies a streamlined mechanism to procure a variety of hydrographic surveying, mapping, and geospatial data services, including bathymetric data collection, coastal mapping, navigation channel assessment, and data processing.
Under this IDC, Etrac has been issued several delivery orders for hydrographic survey work in various U.S. coastal regions, such as in Tampa Bay, Florida; Tangier Sound, Maryland; the Chesapeake Bay rivers; Nome, Alaska; and Green Bay, Wisconsin. These task orders range from $425,271 to $7.6 million and have periods of performance through 2025. The contract work supports NOAA's nautical charting, coastal management, and infrastructure resilience initiatives, with some funding coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The IDC was originally competed as a full and open solicitation with a 2:1 small business reserve ratio, reflecting NOAA's prioritization of utilizing both large and small businesses to provide these specialized surveying services across the nation.
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