Fishery Observer Support Services for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center Observer Program (NEFOP)

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) intends to award a single award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) commercial services type contract with a five (5) year ordering period, including Firm-Fixed-Price rates for Fishery Observer Support Services and a Time and Materials (T&M) line item for Travel, Training, and Vessel Meal Reimbursements in support of the Northeast Fisheries Observer Program (NEFOP).

The NEFSC requires a contractor to provide all qualified personnel, material, equipment, services, support and facilities (except as otherwise specified) to perform quality environmental, biological, and fisheries operations data collection, data analysis, and information dissemination for the NEFSC. Data quality is of the utmost importance.

Performance of contract requirements may occur in multiple locations on land and at sea. The primary Place of Performance is Woods Hole, MA. The Period of Performance of this IDIQ is anticipated to be from 06/08/2025 – 06/07/2030.

This solicitation is set aside 100% for small business. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541690, and the small business size standard for this requirement is $19.0 Million. It is highly encouraged that any small business meeting this size standard and desiring to be considered for award be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) using this NAICS code. It should be noted that offerors must be registered in SAM prior to submission of an offer. For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following website: https://sam.gov/. In order to register with the SAM, all offerors must also have a unique entity identifier through http://sam.gov/conent/entity-registration.

All responsible Small Business concerns meeting the requirements of the solicitation may submit a proposal by the due date and time included in the Solicitation. The Government intends to award a single award IDIQ contract as a result of this solicitation; however, the Government reserves the right to award no contract at all, depending on the quality of the proposals and the prices submitted.

Paper copies of the solicitation will not be issued. Interested parties may use the “follow” feature to monitor changes to this posting. Each potential offeror is responsible for checking https://sam.gov/ to gain all current information related to the solicitation. The solicitation and any further announcements regarding the solicitation will be posted only at https://sam.gov/.

Offerors must submit all questions concerning this solicitation in writing via email to the Contract Specialist, Novelle Key at Novelle.Key@noaa.gov and the Contracting Officer, Kayla Johnson at Kayla.Johnson@noaa.gov. Questions shall be received no later than ten (10) calendar days after the issuance date of this solicitation. Any Government responses to questions will be made in writing, without identification of the questioner, and will be included in an amendment to the solicitation.

Please see attached Solicitation 1305M325R0015 and associated attachments for more information. The services required in this solicitation are currently being performed under Contract Number 1305M218DNFFM0003.