Scientific and Technical Services II (SCITECH II)

NOAA's Scientific and Technical Services II Master IDIQ, established on October 27, 2010, closed to new orders on June 20, 2017, and is no longer active. The vehicle was structured as a small-business set-aside and carried a $550 million combined ceiling across multiple award recipients over a five-year ordering period.

Ordering activity peaked in 2013 with 15 task orders, then declined to 2 orders in 2017 as the vehicle approached its closing date. Across the vehicle's lifecycle, NOAA issued 64 task orders with combined potential value of $432.5 million, of which $348.9 million (81%) has been obligated. All work performed under the vehicle served NOAA alone; no other federal agencies placed orders.

Task orders span scientific and technical support across NOAA's enterprise, including remote sensing operations, fisheries observer programs, satellite data assimilation, weather modeling infrastructure (mesonet), hydrography, environmental restoration, and climate data stewardship. Representative awards include support for the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Southeast Fisheries Science Center operations at multiple locations (Miami, Galveston, Panama City, Beaufort, Pascagoula), Joint Polar Satellite System program management, and coastal wetlands restoration coordination. Work performed at NOAA facilities nationwide including Maryland, Alaska, Michigan, and regional science centers, with travel reimbursed where required.

Riverside Technology Inc. holds the largest position with 22 orders and $136.2 million in combined potential value, followed by Global Science & Technology LLC (11 orders, $99 million) and I.m. Cleansvendornametrait.phpsystems Group Inc. (9 orders, $92.7 million), Earth Resources Technology LLC (12 orders, $67.7 million), and Science & Technology Corporation (10 orders, $37.1 million). The top three firms account for approximately $327.2 million of the $432.5 million portfolio. Competition was structured around competing task orders among the five awarded primes rather than sequential competitive procurements.

Set-aside distribution tilted heavily toward unrestricted awards: 53 orders (83%) carried no set-aside designation, while 11 orders (17%) were designated Total Small Business. Pricing across task orders mixed firm fixed price, time and materials, labor hours, and cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangements. Task order ceilings ranged from $49,628 for contract management oversight tasks to $48.7 million for major scientific algorithm development and system engineering efforts, with typical operational support orders falling in the $1 million to $10 million range.

The scope of this contract is to provide scientific, technical, and management expertise, and related services involving research, planning, assessment, development, management, support, and execution of NOAA's missions and activities.