General Oceanics Inc.

General Oceanics Inc., doing business as GEO Environmental, manufactures oceanographic and marine environmental measurement systems and spare parts for federal agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor is a veteran-owned small business and service-disabled veteran-owned business (SDVOSB) based in Miami, Florida, structured as a Subchapter S corporation. General Oceanics competes on full-and-open solicitations without set-aside designations; of 116 recent prime awards across federal sources, only one carried a total small business set-aside, with the remainder issued as unrestricted or sole-source procurements.

General Oceanics' capability portfolio centers on autonomous and underway pCO2 (carbon dioxide) measuring systems, Niskin and Bullister bottles for water sampling, spare parts kits for oceanographic instrumentation, and related fabricated metal components and subassemblies. Representative recent work includes a $705,558.60 sole-source purchase order from NOAA in September 2024 for seven automated pCO2 underway measuring systems (five for the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory and two for the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory); a $140,664 NOAA order in September 2024 for 120 Bullister bottles supporting the GO-SHIP oceanographic research program; and a $92,797.20 NOAA purchase order in September 2026 for a General Oceanics GO System oceanographic instrumentation platform. The vendor holds exclusive manufacturing and distribution rights to the General Oceanics Model 8060 pCO2 system, originally developed through NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, which anchors repeat sole-source awards for systems and spare parts.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 56 of 116 recent awards (48% of total count) and $3.4 million of $3.9 million combined potential value (87% of dollars). The Department of the Navy represents the second-largest customer by count (15 awards) but carries minimal potential value in the visible record; the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Air Force, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management round out the active customer set. The divergence between NOAA's dominance in both count and dollars and Navy's volume without corresponding value suggests Navy awards are small replenishment orders or repairs relative to NOAA's system procurements.

General Oceanics places the majority of work under the Federal Supply Schedule GS25F6205D (33 task orders, $601 thousand combined potential value), with minimal activity on other indefinite delivery contracts. Activity has been irregular — four awards in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, and five in 2026 — reflecting the episodic nature of NOAA's oceanographic instrumentation purchasing. Five awards totaling $464 thousand potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure in that window. Across the portfolio, top NAICS codes are 332999-class (measuring and controlling instrument manufacturing) and 334516-class (analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing); top PSC codes are geophysical instruments, laboratory equipment and supplies, and chemical analysis instruments.

OCEANOGRAPHY, WATER SAMPLING, WATER CURRENT MEASUREMENT, MARINE EQUIPMENT, BLOCKS, ROSETTE, PRESSURE RECORDERS. FLOWMETER, WATER MONITORING, FRESH AND SALT WATER. CONDUCTIVITY, TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE MEASUREMENT,AIR SAMPLING EQUIPMENT, NISKIN SEAKEEPER