Mary Claire Kier

Mary Claire Kier, doing business as Kier Associates, is a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in McKinleyville, California, that provides specialized avian habitat survey services to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington Region as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. All five awards in the source span a single customer agency and geographic market — BLM's Pacific Northwest operations — with work concentrated on marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl surveys supporting threatened-species recovery and land-management planning in Coos Bay and Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Kier Associates holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 140L4324D0005) valued at $18 million, running through December 31, 2028, that covers western Oregon wildlife surveys across BLM districts including Coos Bay and La Pine. The IDC has generated four task orders to date, with $438 thousand obligated to date against the full $18 million ceiling. The vendor has also received four direct delivery orders outside the IDC framework: a $207,894.50 Total Small Business order awarded August 28, 2024 for marbled murrelet and unstable-release-area surveys in Coos Bay with ultimate completion December 31, 2025; a $77,441 Total Small Business order awarded February 23, 2024 for northern spotted owl surveys in Klamath Falls with completion September 30, 2026; a $77,617 full-and-open delivery order awarded September 2, 2025 for migratory bird recovery area and unstable-release-area surveys in Coos Bay with completion December 31, 2026; and a $75,158 Total Small Business order awarded September 23, 2026 for marbled murrelet surveys in Coos Bay with completion December 31, 2027. All work is performed in North Bend or Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Activity is sparse — three awards in 2024, one in 2025, one in 2026 — with minimal dollars obligated relative to the $18.4 million combined potential value across all awards. Two awards carrying $153 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime under small-business set-asides with no subcontract footprint, operates in a single NAICS (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and PSC (Natural Resources/Conservation—Other Wildlife Management), and serves no other federal agencies.