NOAA/NOS/OCM Coastal Geospatial Services 2016-2021

NOAA's National Ocean Service, Office for Coastal Management established this Master IDIQ on August 16, 2016, with a shared ceiling of $49 million and ordering authority ending August 28, 2021—the vehicle is now closed. Ordering closed nearly five years ago, and all 99 awarded task orders are complete or approaching completion, making this vehicle inactive for new work.

The vehicle funded geospatial services supporting coastal resource management across the United States, including high-resolution land cover mapping, LIDAR data collection and processing, bathymetric and benthic mapping, wetland and seagrass surveys, coastal imagery acquisition, and development of geospatial analysis tools and data platforms. Task orders also funded capacity building, stakeholder workshops, and integration of oceanographic and coastal infrastructure data into national portals. Representative recent orders included a $930,000 engagement on sustainable nearshore management at Illinois Beach State Park, $718,744 for ocean health index and regional data portal enhancements, $715,896 for high-resolution land cover mapping across Caribbean and Pacific island territories, and $4.9 million for California urban water supplier landscape area estimates.

NV5 Geospatial dominated the vehicle, capturing 30 of 99 orders worth $12 million in combined potential value—roughly 38% of all orders and 38% of total obligated dollars. Woolpert held 21 orders worth $8.8 million; Tetra Tech and Fugro Geospatial each held 21 and 14 orders respectively, with $3.6 million and $4 million in combined potential value; Dewberry Engineers rounded out the prime field with 13 orders totaling $3.3 million. All 100 percent of orders were unrestricted, non-set-aside work. A single federal customer, NOAA/NOS/OCM, funded all 99 orders.

Combined task-order potential value reached $31.6 million, with $31.1 million obligated—98 percent of ceiling. Task orders typically ranged from $30,000 to $500,000, with occasional larger efforts exceeding $700,000. Orders per year peaked at 27 in 2019 before declining to 14 in 2020, then rebounding to 20 in 2021, the final year of the ordering window. No successor vehicle is apparent from the source material.

NOAA's Acquisition and Grants Office, Eastern Acquisition Division (EAD), Norfolk, VA on behalf of NOAA's, National Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM) is seeking firms highly qualified to provide professional geospatial services in support of various local, state, and regional coastal resource management needs.