Etrac, A Woolpert Company

Etrac, A Woolpert Company, a for-profit subchapter S corporation headquartered in San Rafael, California, delivers hydrographic surveying, marine geospatial data collection, and dredge positioning services as a prime contractor to federal agencies, competing on full-and-open vehicles without set-aside designation. Etrac is a subsidiary of Woolpert, Inc., a diversified engineering and geospatial services firm; the Etrac brand operates as a specialized marine survey division within the parent organization.

Etrac's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward two agencies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates by potential value, accounting for 23 awards with $314.8 million combined ceiling (87% of the vendor's total award dollars), while the Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District leads by volume with 87 awards worth $23.7 million. The gap between these two rankings reflects NOAA's larger IDV vehicles carrying multimillion-dollar delivery orders, whereas the Alaska District's work is composed of numerous smaller harbor condition surveys. The Army Corps of Engineers (all districts) collectively accounts for $41.1 million across 144 awards, and the Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command rounds out the active set with 18 awards. Representative prime work includes a $6.09 million NOAA delivery order for hydrographic surveying in Tangier Sound (June 2024), a $6.93 million Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-funded NOAA contract for Chesapeake Bay Rivers surveying (March 2023), a $7.62 million NOAA delivery order for Nome, Alaska hydrographic services (March 2023), and a $5.40 million NOAA delivery order for Pocomoke City, Maryland surveying (August 2025). Alaska-focused work spans dozens of smaller harbor condition surveys, topographic surveys, and project assessments at Bethel, Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, and other coastal communities, typically ranging from $50 thousand to $180 thousand per delivery order.

Etrac holds three significant IDVs anchoring its prime footprint. A $450 million multiple-award NOAA Hydrographic Surveys Division vehicle (January 2025–December 2029) has generated eleven task orders worth $20.5 million since inception and serves as the parent vehicle for most major NOAA delivery orders. A $7.5 million single-award IDV with the Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District (July 2023–July 2028) funds numerous Alaskan harbor and waterway surveys. A $13 million multiple-award IDV with the Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District (April 2022–April 2027) supports Gulf Coast and waterway surveying, including a $574 thousand delivery order for Sabine Neches multi-beam and single-beam surveys. Additional IDVs with the Army Corps include the W911KB14D0013 (52 task orders, $3.1 million), W911KB18D0014 (48 task orders, $4.3 million), and W911KB23D0020 (18 task orders, $1.9 million) vehicles, which generate steady flow of smaller task orders.

Activity has remained stable year over year, ranging from 13 to 17 awards annually over the past five years, with a combined potential value of $362.5 million across 207 total awards and $77 million in obligated dollars. Only five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $3.3 million, indicating low recompete cliff exposure in the near term. Etrac operates as a prime on 85% of its awards and subcontracts on 15%, primarily as a hydrographic survey and geospatial data specialist to marine construction and architectural/engineering primes. Named subcontract relationships include work under Moffatt & Nichol–Burns & McDonnell Hawaii on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam bathymetric and LIDAR surveying (August 2025), MDPAC JV on design and engineering for military construction projects in Tinian and Apra Harbor (March 2025), and The Dutra Group on dredging monitoring and surveying for Atlantic Ocean Channel Phase 1 deepening and maintenance projects in Florida and California (multiple 2023–2024 awards).

Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2023–FY2024 shows SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $16.8 million ($13.1 million in FY2023, $3.8 million in FY2024) delivered by small teams of 19.5 FTEs in FY2023 and 3.3 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting the project-based nature of survey delivery. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable primes ranged from a 10th percentile of $189.97/hr to a median of $600.75/hr and a 90th percentile of $980.95/hr, consistent with specialized marine surveying labor and senior technical staff pricing. Etrac performs 100% of hours on its SCI-prime contracts without named subcontractor engagement. The vendor's 160 awards carry NAICS 541370 (Surveying and Mapping except Geophysical), with secondary NAICS in heavy civil engineering construction and engineering services, consistent with its core marine survey and geospatial data portfolio.