The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency within the Department of Commerce, awarded an indefinite delivery contract (IDC) to Saildrone Inc. to provide fisheries professional, scientific, and technical services. The $3 billion multiple award IDC, referred to as the NOAA ProTech Services Solution (PROTECH), enables NOAA to issue delivery orders for a variety of uncrewed maritime data collection and analysis services utilizing Saildrone's fleet of autonomous surface vessels.
Under this IDC, NOAA has issued multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders to Saildrone totaling over $7.5 million for services such as buoy observations, tropical Pacific data collection, fisheries surveys, and weather/ocean monitoring. The work is performed at various locations, including Alameda, California, Seattle, Washington, and La Jolla, California. Several of the delivery orders were set aside for small businesses, while others had no socioeconomic restrictions. This IDC and associated task orders support NOAA's mission to understand and predict changes in the environment through innovative unmanned maritime data collection capabilities.
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