Echoview Software PTY LTD

Echoview Software PTY LTD, doing business as Echoview, is an Australian-based foreign-owned software vendor that sells hydroacoustic data processing and analysis software to U.S. federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders; the vendor does not hold SBA set-aside certifications and competes without set-asides. Echoview is headquartered in Battery Point, Tasmania, and operates as a for-profit organization.

Echoview's capability portfolio centers on proprietary hydroacoustic data processing, visualization, and analysis software used by federal agencies for fisheries surveys, marine research, stock assessment, and biomass estimation. The vendor's software has become the industry standard in this specialized domain since 2004, and federal agencies justify sole-source procurements on Echoview's de facto monopoly position and absence of commercially supported alternatives. Representative recent work includes a $192,348 purchase order from NOAA (August 2024) for five perpetual licenses with four renewal option years for the Southwest Fisheries Science Center; a $176,980 order (July 2026) for maintenance and technical support extending through June 2031, also to NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center; and a $54,110 purchase order (August 2026) to NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center for maintenance and technical support covering seven licenses supporting hydroacoustic trawl surveys through August 2027.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 126 of 227 awards (55% of award count) and $4.1 million of $5.6 million in combined potential value (73% of dollars). The Department of the Interior agencies—US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants, Fish and Wildlife Service (multiple regions), and Bureau of Reclamation—supply the remaining significant customer base, with 37 awards and $743 thousand combined. The vendor has served ten distinct customer agencies in total, but NOAA represents the operative customer baseline; the concentration is both by count and by dollars, with no divergence between the two rankings.

All 227 awards are prime contracts; Echoview has no subcontract footprint. Award volume has remained modest and flat: seven awards in 2022, seven in 2023, nine in 2024, two in 2025, and two through mid-2026. Individual order values range from approximately $10,780 to $192,348, with most awards clustered in the $15,000 to $70,000 range. Five awards (combined potential value $321,000) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure; the largest imminent recompete is the $176,980 NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center maintenance and support order extending to June 2031. Combined obligated dollars across the portfolio stand at $5.1 million against $5.6 million in combined potential value (91% obligation rate), reflecting the mature, ongoing nature of license renewal and maintenance relationships.

Echoview's federal footprint is characterized by sole-source and simplified-acquisition purchase orders for specialized software licenses, perpetual license acquisitions, and annual maintenance and technical support renewals. The vendor does not compete on IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. The entire award portfolio reflects the vendor's position as the exclusive supplier of a mission-critical scientific tool to marine research agencies with no substitutes available in the commercial market.