Innovasea Systems, Inc.

Innovasea Systems, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts (with operations also cited in Onalaska, Wisconsin and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), supplies specialized acoustic telemetry equipment, aquaculture systems, and related scientific instruments to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly on full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation, though several awards carry total small business or partial small business set-asides. The vendor operates across multiple manufacturing NAICS categories, with the preponderance of work falling under Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (NAICS 334511, 334290) and Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing, and corresponding PSC codes for underwater sound equipment and satellite/RF communications products.

Innovasea's federal work centers on hydroacoustic telemetry and aquaculture equipment. Representative recent prime contracts include a $668 thousand USGS order for telemetry equipment and optional accessories (May 2026), a $225.5 thousand USGS delivery of acoustic receivers, transmitters, and activation probes for the Columbia River Research Laboratory (August 2024), a $220 thousand USGS purchase of underwater acoustic tags and receivers (July 2025), a $214.4 thousand Fish and Wildlife Service order for acoustic tags, receivers, hydrophones, and related accessories to support fisheries research at Carterville, Illinois (July 2025), and a $169.2 thousand USDA Agricultural Research Service contract for eight-foot diameter fiberglass fish tanks for the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center in Franklin, Maine (September 2024). Beyond equipment procurement, the vendor also supplies maintenance and technical services: a $23.3 thousand FWS sole-source award for technical services processing acoustic telemetry data from a fish positioning array supporting the Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program (June 2024), troubleshooting and repair work for OxyGuard and UltraAqua monitoring systems at fish hatcheries, and travel technician services to the Jordan River National Fish Hatchery. One recent grant award reflects downstream expansion: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Innovasea a cooperative agreement (effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028) for pre-permitting, site characterization, production planning, and socio-economic study work supporting an open-ocean finfish farm development project off Puerto Rico.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Interior Department agencies. The top five funding customers account for 75 percent of award count and 86 percent of combined potential value: the USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants leads with 11 awards totaling $1.7 million, followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (4 awards, $444 thousand), Fish and Wildlife Service overall (6 awards, $308 thousand), FWS Region 9 Headquarters (2 awards, $267 thousand), and USDA Agricultural Research Service Northeast Area (2 awards, $207 thousand). The Bureau of Reclamation, Army Engineer Research and Development Center, FDA, and other agencies round out an active set of 13 customer agencies. The concentration reflects Innovasea's specialization in fisheries monitoring and aquaculture support — the vendor's equipment anchors federal invasive carp tracking in the Mississippi River basin, Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System (GLATOS) expansion, and hatchery operations across multiple FWS and USGS field offices.

The vendor does not place task orders under government-wide vehicles, IDIQs, or BPAs; all 36 awards in the source are purchase orders issued directly by federal agencies. Sole-source justifications appear frequently in the award record, grounded in Innovasea's exclusive manufacturing and compatibility status with existing federal telemetry networks — for example, a September 2026 Fish and Wildlife Service sole-source award noted that Innovasea's equipment integrates with GLATOS "without data interference" and that "no other manufacturer's equipment" meets the requirement. This pattern signals switching cost and network-effect defensibility but also exposes the vendor to regulatory and competitive risk if federal agencies diversify sources or adopt interoperable standards.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2023 to a peak of 13 in both 2024 and 2025, before declining to eight awards year-to-date in 2026. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $1.1 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete opportunity for competitors and execution risk for the vendor. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source lists no sub-award activity. Combined obligated dollars ($4.1 million) exceed combined potential value ($3.3 million) by 22 percent, suggesting the vendor has delivered invoiced work beyond initial contract ceilings or that multiple modifications have increased awarded amounts.