Echoview Software PTY LTD

Echoview Software PTY LTD, doing business as Echoview, is an Australian-based foreign-owned software vendor that supplies hydroacoustic data processing and analysis software to federal fisheries and marine research agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, holding a de facto monopoly in this specialized domain since 2004 with no commercially supported alternatives available.

Echoview is headquartered in Battery Point, Tasmania, and operates as a for-profit organization with no SBA set-aside certifications. The vendor competes full-and-open across all federal procurement activity; all 230 awards in the source carry no set-aside designation. The company's sole product is Echoview software—a specialized suite for hydroacoustic data visualization, processing, and analysis used by federal agencies to conduct fisheries surveys, estimate fish biomass and stock abundance, and assess marine populations. Federal contracts consistently cite Echoview as the industry standard and sole provider, with sole-source justifications appearing across the award record.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 128 of 230 awards (56% of count) and $5.4 million of the $7 million combined potential value (77% of dollars). The Department of the Interior's US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants contributes 17 awards and $367 thousand; Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 adds 9 awards and $142 thousand; and remaining Department of the Interior components (Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7, and Fish and Wildlife Service) split 11 awards and $194 thousand. Together these top five customer agencies account for 70% of awards and 87% of combined potential value. NOAA's dominance reflects its National Marine Fisheries Service fisheries science centers—Northeast, Northwest, Alaska, and Southwest—each maintaining perpetual licenses and recurring annual maintenance and technical support (MATS) subscriptions. Fish and Wildlife Service activity is distributed across regional Fisheries Resource Offices, principally IL-Carterville in Illinois and La Crosse in Wisconsin, with sporadic presence at Columbia, Missouri and other field-work coordination sites.

Recent awards include a $1.15 million new site license covering Essentials, Automation, Advanced Operators, Fish Tracking, School Detection, and Survey modules with NOAA at Woods Hole, Massachusetts (awarded September 9, 2026); a $176.98 thousand MATS contract with NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center at La Jolla, California running through June 30, 2031; a $192.35 thousand Northeast Fisheries Science Center perpetual license renewal with four option years (awarded August 21, 2024); a $150.39 thousand NOAA software renewal support and upgrades contract (awarded June 5, 2023); and multiple $50 thousand to $69 thousand contracts for license renewals and MATS at NOAA fisheries centers and Fish and Wildlife Service field offices. All work is performed in Australia or at customer locations; place of performance is Australia for maintenance and technical support, and customer sites (Woods Hole, La Jolla, Boulder, Alaska, Woods Hole) for deployed license operations.

Activity has remained flat at 7 to 9 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, then dropped to 2 awards in 2025 and 5 in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards totaling $333 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure for the vendor; however, renewal patterns in the award record show NOAA and Fish and Wildlife Service renewing Echoview licenses consistently on annual or multi-year option cycles, suggesting customer stickiness around this sole-source software platform.

Echoview operates entirely as a prime contractor with no subcontract activity in the federal space. The software-publisher classification (140 of 230 awards) and information-technology-software PSC coding (93 awards) dominate the award portfolio, alongside perpetual-license software and annual maintenance-service-plan PSCs. The vendor serves no DoD customers and has no presence in civilian IT modernization, cloud engineering, or federal compliance markets; its footprint is confined to environmental science and fisheries management at civilian research agencies.