Bat Conservation International, Inc.

Bat Conservation International, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Austin, Texas, operates as a prime recipient on federal grants focused on bat ecology, conservation, and habitat restoration work across the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the Department of Agriculture. The organization holds no federal contracting vehicles and executes 93 percent of its recent award footprint as a prime grant recipient, with the remaining 7 percent as a sub-recipient on collaborative research and habitat initiatives.

BCI's capability portfolio centers on bat species monitoring, white-nose syndrome surveillance and research, habitat restoration and water source protection, cave gate design and installation, stable isotope analysis for geographic assignment of bat populations, and technical assistance to federal land managers on bat ecology and resource protection. Representative work includes a $340,771 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to consolidate colony monitoring and Pseudogymnoascus destructans surveillance across Myotis velifer populations in five U.S. states and two Mexican states through March 2027; a $29,475 purchase order from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to conduct stable hydrogen isotope analysis of Indiana bat hair samples for geographic assignment and summer catchment area mapping through December 2027; a $19,334 delivery order from the National Park Service Intermountain Region for removal and installation of a bat gate at Middle Cave in Timpanogos National Monument completed in August 2024; and a five-year, multi-site cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Land Management National Office awarded in September 2024 to implement science-driven habitat restoration actions including water restoration, invasive species removal, native vegetation restoration with a focus on agave planting, and ongoing wildlife monitoring across priority BLM sites.

Federal customer concentration is concentrated within the Department of the Interior's regional offices and bureaus. The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 leads on combined potential value (6 awards, $53 thousand), followed closely by Region 5 (11 awards, $47 thousand combined potential value); the National Park Service Intermountain Region accounts for 9 awards carrying $19 thousand combined potential value; and the National Park Service Pacific West Region has placed 8 awards. These five customer entities account for 40 percent of recent awards by count and 62 percent by combined potential value. BCI serves 26 distinct federal customer agencies in total, indicating broad federal engagement but concentrated in Interior Department land and wildlife management programs. Activity has grown from 6 awards in 2022 to 12 in 2024, though 2025 showed a decline to 5 awards and only 2 awards appear year-to-date in 2026. Ten awards carrying combined potential value of $29 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure across National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Forest Service cooperative agreements.

BCI acts as a sub-recipient on research and habitat work coordinated by Boise State University on acoustic deterrent systems for wind-energy bat fatality reduction, by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on oyster restoration in New York and bat habitat improvement through native plant community restoration in Illinois and West Virginia, by the Electric Power Research Institute on offshore acoustic monitoring and ultraviolet light deterrent evaluation, and by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish on agave seed collection and translocations paired with environmental DNA surveys of nectar bat species. The source does not identify named prime contractors for the two small federal contract purchase orders (the Indiana bat isotope analysis and the Timpanogos cave gate) but confirms no federal contracting vehicles anchor the portfolio. Federal grant work spans cooperative agreements with the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs for the National Park System (CFDA 15.945), the Fish and Wildlife Service under Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657), the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program, and various BLM habitat restoration funding opportunities. BCI was registered to receive federal awards since 2002 and continues active engagement on grant-funded conservation and monitoring initiatives across the western and mid-Atlantic United States as well as Mexico.