ProTech 2.0 Fisheries Domain

NOAA, within the Department of Commerce, established the ProTech 2.0 Fisheries Domain, a multiple-award Master IDIQ for professional, scientific, and technical services supporting NOAA Fisheries, with orders accepted through Sep 23, 2029 under a shared $8 billion ceiling across the four ProTech 2.0 domains. The vehicle was established Mar 29, 2024, leaving 2 years and 10 months of ordering authority. It traces to a recompete whose draft RFP was posted Mar 15, 2022. The vehicle has 67 task orders, with 5 awarded in 2024, 28 in 2025, and 34 in 2026, and the most recent was awarded Oct 27, 2026. Of $205.3 million in combined task-order potential value, $54.7 million (27%) is obligated.

Recent orders buy research, monitoring, and program support: quantitative fish ecology analysis, electronic monitoring installation and support on vessels, acoustic and eDNA analysis, autonomous underwater vehicle operation and imagery annotation, observer program support, fisheries statistics, ESA Section 7 consultation, sea-going survey support, and policy analyst staffing. Pricing is firm fixed price and time and materials, with one labor-hour order. The source describes performance at sites worldwide that "may not be limited to" Alaska, Greater Atlantic, Pacific Islands, Southeast and Caribbean, and West Coast regions, with surge requirements.

Ocean Associates Inc. leads with 19 orders and $65.7 million in potential value. Azura Consulting LLC holds 6 orders worth $39.8 million, and Saltwater Inc. holds 7 orders worth $33.7 million. The five primes with the most orders (Ocean Associates Inc., Case Consultants International LLC, Parymon Corp, Saltwater Inc., and Azura Consulting LLC) account for 73% of orders, and the five largest by potential value account for 80% of value, so a small group captures most activity. The remaining primes form a wider field of smaller awardees.

All 67 orders fund one customer, NOAA, and are placed through NMFS offices and science centers.

Set-aside designations across the 67 orders are 50 Total Small Business (75%), 11 Woman-Owned Small Business (16%), and 6 No Set-Aside Used (9%). The originating draft notice stated that no set-aside was used and that a set-aside determination had not been finalized.

Individual orders in the recent sample carry ceilings from $10,458 to about $20 million. The largest is Delivery Order 1305M424D0004-1305M325F0196 for NEFSC Protected Species Division support, with a $20 million ceiling and $6,723,377.20 obligated. One order carries a $250 minimum guarantee, which is a contractual floor and not a representative order value.

The services provided under ProTech 2.0 Fisheries will support sites worldwide, which include, but may not be limited to, Alaska, Greater Atlantic, Pacific Islands, Southeast and Caribbean, and West Coast Regions with varied requirements and surge requirements.