Lotek Wireless Inc.

Lotek Wireless Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of wildlife telemetry and acoustic monitoring equipment, operates as a prime contractor to federal agencies on a full-and-open basis, with no SBA set-aside involvement across its 805 recent federal prime awards. The company is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Newmarket, Ontario, and manufactures specialized tracking devices including GPS collars, radio transmitters, acoustic tags, satellite-based archival tags, and data loggers used for wildlife research, fisheries monitoring, and species conservation across 64 distinct federal agencies.

Lotek's capability footprint is narrowly specialized in proprietary wildlife telemetry hardware. Representative recent prime awards include a $927.9 million Definitive Contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (awarded September 2023) for 3,850 NTFD-2-1 coded nano radio transmitters and 205 coded radio transmitters to support fish passage studies at Foster, Green Peter, and Mud Mountain Dams; a $1.595 billion Definitive Contract from USACE (awarded September 2022) for nano tags and related radio telemetry transmitters for dam studies in Oregon and Washington; a $113.2 million firm fixed-price purchase order from NOAA (awarded August 2023) for LAT1400 temperature and depth recorders used in pelagic longline research; and a $101.8 thousand purchase order from the National Park Service Intermountain Region (awarded July 2025) for waterproof acoustic telemetry transmitters for cutthroat trout tracking in Yellowstone. Most awards are purchase orders under simplified acquisition procedures for replacement equipment, consumables, or specialized components with completion timelines ranging from weeks to months.

Customer concentration is wide but anchored by a small set of high-value accounts. The top five customers by award count account for 28% of awards and include the Army Corps of Engineers (54 awards, $3.9 million combined potential value), U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (49 awards, $1.9 million), NOAA (48 awards, $1.2 million), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (41 awards, $1.4 million), and the Bureau of Reclamation (31 awards, $1 million). By potential value, the two USACE Engineering Districts — Portland (29 awards, $12.4 million) and Walla Walla (14 awards, $4.2 million) — dominate, reflecting large infrastructure and fisheries monitoring projects. The divergence between award-count and value rankings signals that Lotek places numerous small individual equipment orders across wildlife agencies while anchoring its largest dollar values to USACE dam-related fish passage studies.

Lotek places work through two principal federal vehicles. The Federal Supply Schedule GS03F6051D carries 313 task orders ($13 million combined potential value) and serves as the dominant ordering mechanism for government-wide procurement. A secondary vehicle, "Professional Audio/Video Hardware Superstore," accounts for 35 task orders ($3.7 million). The remaining identified vehicles — Indefinite Delivery Contracts with USACE (W912EF05D0004, W9127N10D0022) and the Army (ING07CRCN0007) — hold single-digit task order counts but represent direct agency relationships for specialized fish telemetry work.

Activity has declined in recent years. Awards per year fell from 13 in 2022 and 2023 to 10 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 2 in the first half of 2026 (five days as of the source date). The recompete cliff is minimal: only 2 awards (combined potential value $53 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating low near-term contract exposure. Lotek operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint across the 805 awards in the source data.

The source characterizes Lotek as a sole-source supplier for the vast majority of its awards, justified on the basis of proprietary radio frequencies, compatibility with existing agency telemetry networks, or specialized technical capabilities (such as the telescoping memory function in NOAA's LAT1400 recorders or the 150-day battery life of the Lotek WHS 4350 acoustic receivers). NAICS and PSC concentration reflects this equipment-centric posture: Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing accounts for 468 awards, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing for 201 awards, and Search, Detection, Navigation and Guidance System Manufacturing for 28 awards. Lotek has been registered to bid federal awards since 2002 and operates without geographic preference, serving agencies across CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, and offshore research stations.