This Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Saildrone Inc. as a prime contractor. The contract, valued up to $8 billion, is a multiple award under the ProTech 2.0 Fisheries Domain IDIQ contract vehicle. It enables NOAA and other agencies to procure professional and technical services from Saildrone for maritime domain awareness, bathymetric mapping, weather observation, and other applications leveraging the company's fleet of unmanned autonomous surface vessels (UASVs), or "saildrones."
The original solicitation for the ProTech 2.0 Fisheries Domain IDIQ was a special notice, seeking small business contractors to provide a range of scientific and technical support services to NOAA over a multi-year ordering period. Under this IDC, NOAA and other authorized users can issue task orders for Saildrone's uncrewed maritime data collection systems and analytics to support missions such as hurricane forecasting, living marine resource assessments, and ocean exploration. The contract has a period of performance through September 2029.