Aqua Survey, Inc.

Aqua Survey, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Flemington, New Jersey, delivers marine and aquatic environmental sampling, testing, and analysis services to the federal government as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on an unrestricted, full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside designations. The company provides specialized services including vibracore sampling, split-spoon sampling, grain-size analysis, geophysical surveying, biological testing, physical analysis, and laboratory services to support dredging, coastal engineering, navigation maintenance, and environmental remediation programs.

Aqua Survey's customer base is heavily concentrated within a single agency. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for approximately 95% of recent awards and 100% of combined potential value across all awards. Within that agency, the Engineering District New York (ENDIST New York) dominates with 139 awards valued at $33.8 million, followed by the broader Department of the Army Corps of Engineers with 69 awards valued at $5 million. The Engineering District Jacksonville accounts for one award of $454 thousand. Secondary customers include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2 awards, $28 thousand) and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (2 awards, $67 thousand), reflecting Aqua Survey's regional specialization in Port of New York and New Jersey, Hudson River, and Atlantic Ocean environments.

Work is performed primarily through five parent IDIQs issued by USACE. The largest vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract W912DS22D0002, under which ENDIST New York has placed 40 task orders valued at $6.6 million combined. This is the primary single-award IDIQ awarded to Aqua Survey on July 25, 2022, with an initial ceiling of $8.44 million (subsequently modified to approximately $7.7 million) and performance extending through July 24, 2027. Four additional IDIQ vehicles carry 41, 39, 33, and 31 task orders respectively, spanning $3.8 million, $2.9 million, $1.8 million, and $393 thousand in combined potential value. Individual delivery orders under these vehicles range from approximately $13,000 to $608,791 on firm fixed-price terms. Representative work includes a $369,407 order in January 2025 for additional vibracore sampling and environmental assessment services in Staten Island; a $555,911 Historic Area Remediation Sites sampling and testing order issued in October 2024 for Flemington-based laboratory work; and a $608,791 delivery order in May 2024 for sampling and analysis at Haverstraw Bay extending through December 2025.

Award activity has remained relatively stable year over year, with 15 awards in 2022, 9 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 13 in 2025, and 4 awards through February 2026. The combined potential value across all 228 awards (prime and sub) is $39.3 million, with $19.7 million obligated. Only 3 awards (combined potential value $802 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in that window. Aqua Survey operates as a prime contractor on virtually all work; the vendor appears as a named subcontractor in only 3 sub-award records, performing vessel support, survey, and vibracoring services to AECOM Technical Services, CDM Federal Programs Corporation, and Weston Solutions on environmental remediation projects.

Service Contract Inventory data is minimal—only 1 SCI record, captured as a subcontract in FY2024, with no FTE reporting and zero prime SCI records. This reflects that most of Aqua Survey's federal work is either goods-oriented (sampling, testing, analysis below the $150,000 SCI threshold) or structured under task-order vehicles that do not trigger SCI reporting. The vendor has maintained federal contractor status since SAM.gov registration in February 2002 and holds no visible small-business certifications, competing across the full federal market without set-aside protections.

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