Contract C77182

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection awarded contract C77182 for a one-year fixed-cost agreement valued at $148,701.12, effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The contract requires ground-truthing and restoration site evaluation activities across Florida's Coral Reef, with initial focus on the Kristin Jacobs Coral Aquatic Preserve and subsequent work across the five counties bordering the reef. The contractor will deliver quality assurance documentation, dive logs, data sheets, photographic evidence, technical meeting notes, and restoration site maps according to a phased deliverable schedule with submissions due October 15, 2026 and January 6, 2027.

The contract is structured with three primary task categories: a no-cost Quality Assurance Plan and Reporting component; ground-truthing of focus areas identified in a related project (valued at $124,493.34), which comprises 50 percent of deliverables in each reporting period; and Restoration Site Evaluation services (valued at $24,207.78), comprising 25 percent of each quarterly deliverable. Deliverable payments of $68,298.62 are scheduled for each reporting period, contingent upon submission and approval of all required documentation, dive records, coordination meeting summaries, and final site maps to support Florida's coral reef conservation and disease response initiatives.