Center For Whale Research
Friday Harbor, WA
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Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 355 Smugglers Cove Rd, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
- Website
- whaleresearch.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Industrials
- Commercial & Professional Services
- Professional Services
- Research & Consulting Services
- SIC code
- 87 Engineering & Management Services
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $60,554 |
| FY2025 | $57,670 |
| FY2024 | $54,924 |
| FY2023 | $108,319 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Commerce | $60,554 |
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Fish And Wildlife Foundation | HQ00342120014 | $73,353 |
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About the company
Center For Whale Research, a tax-exempt non-profit marine mammal research organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington, provides Southern Resident killer whale population monitoring, photo identification surveys, and health assessment services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a prime contractor under a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with no set-aside designation. The organization competes in the full-and-open market and holds primary NAICS coding in Environmental Consulting Services and Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, with work performed in Friday Harbor and La Conner, Washington and across the Salish Sea and U.S. West Coast/British Columbia coastal areas.
Center For Whale Research operates under near-total customer concentration with NOAA, which accounts for 27 awards (91% of combined potential value, $5 million) across the recent award footprint. The vendor holds a single-award IDC with NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center (ceiling $750 thousand, through September 2029) that has generated five delivery orders since September 2022, including Task Order 0003 ($60.5 thousand, September 2026 through September 2027), Task Order 0002 ($57.6 thousand, September 2025 through September 2026), and earlier orders for $108.3 thousand (September 2023) and $107.9 thousand (September 2022). These orders fund annual population census, photo identification surveys, and health status assessments of the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population in support of NOAA's marine mammal stewardship and recovery programs. The vendor also subcontracts under the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on a May 2024 grant sub-award for development of a collaborative online database to collate and disseminate individual whale health data, supporting management actions and population decline analysis.
Award activity has remained sparse and episodic—one award per year in 2022 and 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026—with combined potential value across all forty awards (prime plus sub, spanning 2003 to present) of $5.5 million and $3.5 million obligated to date. The single recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months carries combined potential value of $61 thousand. The vendor brings specialized capability in cetacean population surveys, photographic identification protocols, and health assessment methodology that aligns narrowly with NOAA's Pacific Northwest marine mammal research mission; outside NOAA and the single NFWF sub-award, the source carries one additional Office of the Secretary of Defense award with no magnitude detail, suggesting minimal diversification beyond civilian marine conservation work.
Quick answers
Is Center For Whale Research registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Center For Whale Research's SAM.gov registration is active through November 5, 2026.
How much has Center For Whale Research received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $57,670 to Center For Whale Research in fiscal year 2025 and $281,467 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Center For Whale Research rank among federal contractors?
Center For Whale Research ranked #35 in PSC B516 in FY2025.
What is Center For Whale Research's most recent federal award?
Center For Whale Research's most recent federal contract award is Task order 0003: southern resident killer whale annual photo identification and health assessment services… (1305M326F0173), from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on September 10, 2026.
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