Ducks Unlimited Inc.

Ducks Unlimited Inc., doing business as Ducks Unlimited, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee that serves as a prime recipient on federal wetland conservation, habitat restoration, and environmental mitigation grants from the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with 96% of its recent federal awards positioned as prime recipient (rather than subrecipient) roles. The vendor operates exclusively under federal grant programs — it does not hold federal prime contracts — and competes in full-and-open grant solicitations across Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service regions, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, and USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Ducks Unlimited's federal grant portfolio centers on wetland and migratory bird habitat conservation, habitat restoration and enhancement, water management infrastructure, and environmental compliance support. Representative work includes a $3.5 million cooperative agreement from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 to construct Phase 1 restoration and engineer Phase 2 activities on the Upper Williamson River restoration within the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon; a $776,305 cooperative agreement from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program (CFDA 15.637) to serve as fiscal agent and coordinator for the Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture across the Pacific Flyway; a $2 million project grant from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 to construct climate-resilient public access and restore tidal habitats at the Mountain View Restoration Project within the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge; and a $737,619.94 cooperative agreement from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service under the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (CFDA 10.931) to support wetland reserve easement implementation in Washington. The vendor also manages two smaller federal purchase orders from the Bureau of Reclamation ($46,750 for Rio Heart Butte wetland mitigation credits in South Dakota) and the Department of Defense ($119,554.60 for environmental mitigation credits to comply with California Clean Water Act requirements).

Customer concentration reflects Interior's dominance across the portfolio. The top five customers by award count include the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (66 awards, $407 thousand combined potential value), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters (42 awards), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (31 awards, $1.6 million), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 (22 awards), and USDA's National Resources Conservation Service (19 awards). By potential value, Interior's Bureau of Land Management National Office leads with 10 awards worth $12 million combined, followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 at $1.6 million. The gap between volume and dollars reflects many small project grants alongside fewer, larger cooperative agreements anchoring the dollar value.

Ducks Unlimited's federal work operates through four named indefinite delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract 101812D009 (62 task orders, $7.2 million combined potential value), IDC INF08PC60062 (13 task orders, $1.5 million), IDC 140L0618D0063 (9 task orders, $2 million), and IDC INF701815D034 (5 task orders, $866 thousand). These vehicles sit within Interior grant programs rather than government-wide acquisition contracts.

The vendor's federal grant portfolio has remained stable in recent years — ten awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, fourteen in 2024, with activity declining to six in 2025 and five in 2026 year-to-date. Only twelve awards (combined potential value $47 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling a modest recompete exposure window. Ducks Unlimited also acts as a subrecipient on limited grant work, receiving four named sub-award allocations from the Forest Service International Foundation (Cold Lake Fire Risk Mapping), the Recreation & Conservation Office (floodplain restoration and salmon habitat design in Washington), and the State Coastal Conservancy (South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project Phase 2 at Eden Landing, with a $3.9 million EPA grant component).

The vendor's capability framing—derived from 325 recent federal awards spanning NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), 331920 (Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), and habitat conservation work—centers on wetland mapping and inventory, habitat restoration design and engineering, water management infrastructure planning and construction, hydrologic assessment, biological survey and monitoring, conservation easement administration, and environmental compliance documentation for federal refuge and public land management. Place of performance includes operations across the Pacific Flyway, Interior regions 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9, and scattered projects in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, South Dakota, and coastal areas.