Wildlife Telemetry Collars and Monitoring
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 1158691
- Agency
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Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 114210 Hunting and Trapping
- PSC
- AH23 Natural Resources & Environment R&D Svcs; Conservation & Land Management; Experimental Development
- Place of performance
- New Ellenton, South Carolina, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station has published a Special Notice announcing its intent to issue an indefinite-delivery contract to Advanced Telemetry Systems, Inc. for wildlife telemetry equipment and monitoring services. The contract will span three one-year ordering periods and focuses on GPS tracking collars for white-tailed deer, wild pigs, and coyotes as part of ongoing research activities. The notice falls under the Hunting and Trapping NAICS category and relates to Natural Resources & Environment R&D Services. The anticipated award date is October 10, 2025, with responses due by September 29, 2025. This appears to be a sole-source procurement opportunity, as the Forest Service has identified a specific vendor for the specialized wildlife monitoring equipment needed for their research programs.
The primary objective of this procurement is to support wildlife research by obtaining sophisticated GPS tracking collars and related monitoring equipment that meet very specific technical requirements. Key specifications include collars with user-commandable remote drop-off mechanisms that can be re-locked for redeployment, vaginal implant transmitters with temperature and light sensors for deer birth detection, and lightweight fawn collars (no larger than 125g) capable of recording GPS fixes every 15 minutes for at least 42 days. All equipment must provide comparable GPS functionality across species to enable data comparison, with web-based data access in CSV and Google Earth KML formats. Interested parties must demonstrate to the Contracting Specialist Shannon Wrobel and Contracting Officer Keith Friot by 5:00 PM EST on September 29, 2025, that competition would be advantageous to the government, providing clear and convincing evidence of their capabilities to meet these specialized research requirements.
Notice text
The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station intends to issue a indefinite-delivery contract that includes three (3) on year ordering periods to Advanced Telemetry Systems, Inc. for GPS tracking collars for white-tailed deer, wild pigs, and coyotes.
This research requires GPS collars for several age/sex classes of white-tailed deer, vaginal implant transmitters for deer, and GPS collars for wild pigs and coyotes. Collars for all species must be equipped with user-commandable, remote drop-off mechanisms. These drop-offs must further be capable of re-locking to enable re-deploying the collars on the same or different animals. Vaginal implant transmitters (VITs), which signal when a deer has given birth to fawns (thus enabling their capture and collaring), must have both temperature and light sensors to detect when the transmitter has been expelled during birth and must communicate with the mother’s collar to send text and email alerts to the user. Fawn collars must be no larger than 125 g, small enough for a newborn fawn to carry. Further, fawn collars must contain batteries capable of recording GPS fixes every 15 minutes for at least 42 days (6 weeks). All GPS collars (adult and fawn deer, wild pig, and coyote) must have comparable GPS functionality (accuracy, programmability, and types of data collected) to enable comparisons of data among individual animals. Data shall be available on a website for researchers to view, retrieve, and save data in .csv format and Google Earth .kml files.
The anticipated award date is October 10, 2025. Interested parties may identify their interests and capabilities to respond to this requirement to the Contracting Specialist, Shannon Wrobel, by email at shannon.wrobel@usda.gov with a courtesy email to the Contracting Officer, Keith Friot, keith.d.friot@usda.gov no later than 5:00pm EST September 29, 2025. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government.
Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No reimbursement for any cost connected with providing capability information will be provided.
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