The Department of the Interior's United States Geological Survey awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to the University of Wisconsin System's Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene division to provide water contamination testing services in support of the agency's environmental monitoring programs. The prime contractor will analyze water samples collected by the USGS at its facility in Madison, Wisconsin to identify contaminants and assess water quality under various firm fixed...
This federal contract IDV award is for airborne electromagnetic, magnetic, and radiometric surveys of select aquifers in the Mississippi Embayment and Gulf Coastal Plain regions. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded a single-award $2,999,999 indefinite delivery contract to Xcalibur MPH Canada LIMITED, a for-profit limited liability company, to provide these specialized geophysical survey services. Under this IDV, the USGS has...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its Office of Sponsored Programs Division at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), was awarded a single award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $250,000 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Water Science Center. This IDC, with a period of performance through February 2027, provides for solid phase adsorption tracking tool (SPATT) extraction and analysis services to detect numerous algal toxins in water samples using both...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded an $850 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Woolpert, Inc. called the Geospatial Products and Services IV (GPSC4) program. Under this master IDC, Woolpert will provide geospatial products and services to USGS and other federal agencies, including aerial imagery acquisition, LiDAR data collection, topographic mapping, and GIS support. The task orders provided demonstrate...
The Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract called the Geospatial Products and Services Contract (GPSC) to acquire geospatial products and services. Under this overarching IDIQ vehicle, the USGS has issued numerous firm fixed-price delivery orders to the prime contractor, G M R Aerial Surveys, Inc. (doing business as Photo Science), a for-profit organization. These delivery orders task the...
Summary: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract with a $850 million ceiling value to Fugro USA Land, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit company. The Geospatial Products and Services IV (GPSC4) contract enables the USGS and other federal agencies to efficiently procure a wide range of geospatial products and services from Fugro, including aerial imagery collection, Light Detection...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a civilian agency within the Department of the Interior, has awarded a single-award indefinite delivery contract (IDC) worth up to $6.8 million to FTS Forest Technology Systems LTD., a Canadian for-profit company. The contract aims to provide the USGS with specialized hydrographic instruments, parts, and fixed-price repair services to support the agency's hydrologic data collection and water monitoring initiatives through September 2024. Under this IDC, the...
The U.S. Geological Survey, a science agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Measurement Specialties Inc. to provide hydrological equipment and related products and services in support of the agency's water resource monitoring, research, and data collection efforts. The multiple award contract has a potential value of $2.35 million over a five-year period of performance from 2020 to 2025. Under the contract, the Geological Survey has issued...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its Accounts Payable Dept, has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants to provide water sample analysis services in support of the Great Lakes Water Initiative. This single-award, indefinite delivery vehicle (IDV) has a ceiling value of $1,500,000 and a period of performance through May 31, 2026. The BPA establishes fixed pricing for various water sample analysis services,...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), part of the Department of the Interior, has awarded a $30 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Ardent Management Consulting, LLC (Ardentmc), a for-profit limited liability company, to provide support services for the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Geospatial Platform Shared Services. This total small business set-aside contract has a 5-year period of performance and covers technical support, portfolio management, project...
The U.S. Geological Survey, a science agency within the Department of the Interior, awarded a single award indefinite delivery contract to Skytem Surveys APS to provide airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey services for shallow bedrock mapping in Wisconsin and adjacent regions. Task orders issued against the contract total $799,793.68 to conduct surveys in Wisconsin through November 2022. The originating solicitation sought these services to assist in mapping the interface between bedrock and overlying sediments to support research programs at the agency's Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics Science Center and refine maps used in Wisconsin's regulatory standards for agricultural runoff. No set-asides were applied. Performance will take place in Wisconsin under firm fixed price delivery orders. The contract and its task orders aim to procure airborne survey data collection and analysis to further the agency's understanding of shallow bedrock geology and groundwater resources in the region through the use of electromagnetic and magnetic remote sensing techniques.