JOA Surveys LLC

JOA Surveys LLC, an Alaska-based small business operating as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and limited liability partnership, provides water level station reconnaissance, installation, maintenance, and repair services; vertical datum transformation system work; and surveying and mapping support to federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on environmental remediation and geospatial projects.

JOA Surveys competes predominantly full-and-open, with no set-aside designations on the majority of its prime work, though two significant task orders carry Total Small Business set-aside status. The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated with a single agency: the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for 35 awards (90% of recent volume) and $185.8 million of the $188.9 million combined potential value across all fifty awards. Minimal secondary agency activity includes the National Park Service Alaska Region (four awards, $210 thousand), the National Park Service National Office (three awards, $150 thousand), the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Army. The concentration difference between volume and potential value is negligible — both rankings are anchored by NOAA.

JOA Surveys holds a $74.0 million indefinite-delivery contract with NOAA's Center for Oceanographic Products and Services (NOS/CO-OPS), awarded October 1, 2023, running through September 30, 2033, for installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of water level stations, current observation platforms, and Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) sites nationwide. This parent vehicle has generated sixteen task orders worth $24.4 million in combined potential value. Representative recent prime work includes a $5.7 million delivery order issued August 20, 2026, for west coast NWLON/PORTS infrastructure operations and maintenance in Chesapeake, Virginia (performance through August 19, 2030); a $4.9 million Total Small Business delivery order for reconnaissance, installation, maintenance, and repair of NWLON stations in Alaska awarded January 1, 2023 (performance through December 31, 2027); a $4.2 million Total Small Business delivery order for operation, maintenance, repair, and management of NWLON and PORTS in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands awarded May 22, 2023 (performance through June 22, 2029); and a $60,000 purchase order from the National Park Service Alaska Region for development of a GNSS-IR real-time water level dashboard service, awarded July 23, 2026 (performance through March 21, 2028).

Activity has been volatile over the past five years, declining from six awards in 2023 to three annual awards in both 2025 and 2026. Four awards with combined potential value of $5.3 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, JOA Surveys delivers ground control surveys and checkpoint surveys for lidar-based shoreline mapping to Dewberry Engineers, surveying and mapping services on environmental remediation projects to Ch2M Hill, Inc. and Jacobs Government Services Company, and GNSS-reflectometry methodology development as a sub-recipient to Oregon State University on a Department of Commerce grant.

Across SCI-reportable service contracts, JOA Surveys has invoiced $2.5 million in prime federal services between FY2022 and FY2025, with FY2022 reaching $898 thousand and FY2023 reaching $1 million before declining to zero in FY2024 and recovering to $519 thousand in FY2025. The SCI dataset shows a modest federal services labor footprint of 2.4 FTEs in FY2025, down from 4.5 FTEs in FY2022, reflecting cyclical task-order timing under the larger NOAA indefinite-delivery vehicle. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a tenth percentile of $30.75/hr through a median of $89.69/hr to a ninetieth percentile of $318.36/hr, with JOA Surveys self-performing all reported labor and engaging no subcontractors on SCI-reportable prime contracts.

JOA Surveys, LLC collects and analyzes geospatial data, specializing in water levels, tides and geodetic surveying.