Coastal Frontiers Corporation

Coastal Frontiers Corporation, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Moorpark, California, provides specialized coastal engineering, oceanographic research, and Arctic sea ice monitoring services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations. The firm holds a $9.8 million total small business IDIQ with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District through November 2026 and operates as a specialist in environmental data collection, hydrographic surveying, and coastal civil works support.

Coastal Frontiers' customer base centers on two federal agencies. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement accounts for 15 awards with $7.5 million in combined potential value, anchored by a recurring sole-source research program on Arctic sea ice freeze-up and break-up dynamics in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas — work the firm has executed as primary investigator since 2009, leveraging exclusive access to RADARSAT satellite imagery under non-disclosure agreements and proprietary historical data from Joint Industry Project partners. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District accounts for 4 awards with $10.4 million combined potential value, primarily post-construction monitoring and pre-construction reporting work in San Diego, Ventura, Encinitas, and Solana Beach, California. The broader Corps (across all districts) holds 39 additional awards with $3.7 million combined potential value. Together, these two organizations and their sub-components account for 93% of recent awards. NAICS profile skews toward engineering services (23 awards) and other scientific and technical consulting (8 awards), with PSC coding dominated by architect-and-engineering general categories and energy R&D petroleum research.

Parent-vehicle work flows through five IDIQ contracts, with 12 task orders under DACW0992D0017, 11 under DACW0996D0001, 7 under DACW0989D0001, and 6 each under DACW0999D0010 and W912PL22D0001 ($4.3 million combined). Representative work includes a $1 million definitive contract with BSEE (issued March 2026) for 2025-26 Arctic sea ice research, a $1.07 million Corps delivery order for post-construction monitoring in San Clemente with completion in November 2027, a $1.73 million Corps post-construction monitoring delivery order in San Diego (awarded May 2024, completing March 2028), and a $230 thousand Ventura Harbor comprehensive survey. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $4.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure.

Activity levels in recent years have been modest — one award in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 — with the firm having served five distinct federal agencies cumulatively across 68 total awards since 1988. On SCI-reportable service contracts, Coastal Frontiers invoiced $781 thousand in FY2023 and $778 thousand in FY2024, delivering roughly 1.1 to 1.3 FTEs across that period. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records span a median of $299.90/hr, with the spectrum ranging from $228/hr at the tenth percentile to $400/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile, reflecting technical specialist and professional service delivery. The firm operates as a near-complete prime (99% of awards), with only one subcontract award identified in the dataset — a $1.6 million sub-award to AECOM on an inundation study Phase III Wake Island Airfield project management task (issued May 2023). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero sub-hours are reported, indicating Coastal Frontiers delivers work with its own personnel rather than relying on subcontractor labor.

Coastal Engineering and Oceanography, Hydrographic Surveying, and Arctic Engineering