Alaska Biomap, Inc.

Alaska Biomap, Inc., doing business as Nature Charters, is a woman-owned small business based in Juneau, Alaska, that delivers environmental consulting, wetlands mapping, and ecological survey services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on GSA Schedule work, with minimal subcontractor activity. The company is a Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside vehicles, though several recent task orders carry Total Small Business designations.

Alaska Biomap's capability portfolio centers on National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) mapping, field surveys using GPS and aerial imagery analysis, GIS services, hydrologic data analysis, and ecological assessments supporting conservation planning and regulatory compliance. Representative prime work includes a $5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service for wetland mapping services through July 2028 (the vendor's largest contract vehicle), a $1.3 million delivery order from FWS for National Wetlands Inventory mapping in Southcentral Alaska (May 2023–June 2025), a $267 thousand delivery order from FWS Region 7 for data modeling services in marine mammal management (September 2023), a $216 thousand BPA call from FWS Region 3 for revised wetlands mapping services through June 2028, and a $95 thousand delivery order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for technical support on the Marine Debris Removal Restoration Valuation Project Phase 2 in Alaska (September 2024–March 2027). The company also performs cultural resource surveys, heritage services nomination support, and hydrologic analysis across federal lands, including a $57 thousand total small business delivery order for mussel survey work on the Auglaize River in Ohio (June 2025) and a $34 thousand delivery order for recreation tract cultural resource survey and site recordation with USDA Forest Service Northern Region.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward civilian natural-resource agencies. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service dominates by potential value, accounting for $6.5 million across four prime awards (90% of combined potential value when considering the largest customer ranking). The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration places the second-largest award count at 21 orders but carries only $959 thousand in combined potential value, reflecting higher-volume, lower-dollar-per-order work. The Department of Transportation Maritime Administration, GSA Federal Acquisition Service, and FWS Region 7 complete the top-five customer roster by dollars. No single customer dominates award volume — the top five customers account for 69% of award count but the concentration by potential value is steeper, with FWS alone carrying 90% of the combined potential value when the largest single contract is included.

All work is placed under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, with 23 task orders generating $8.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor holds no other parent contract vehicles (GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or BPAs beyond the single FWS $5 million wetland-mapping BPA).

Activity has been volatile. The vendor received four awards in 2022, peaked at ten in 2023, fell to two in 2024, recovered to four in 2025, and has received one award so far in 2026 (as of mid-June). Eight awards with combined potential value of $1.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete risk on the FWS $5 million BPA and several smaller task orders.

The vendor operates primarily as a prime contractor (96% of awards), with minimal subcontractor engagement. SCI reporting shows Alaska Biomap received $647 thousand in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2023 and FY2024 (contract-level reporting, not company-wide), with median government-paid hourly rates around $40/hr (10th percentile $34/hr, 90th percentile $46/hr) on prime service contracts. On the two SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor engaged 100% sub-hours share with four named subcontractors, indicating that the company sources field delivery and specialized analytical work to external partners while retaining project management and regulatory compliance oversight. The company also holds two federal grant sub-awards as a named subcontractor to the North Pacific Research Board and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, performing Pacific sleeper shark age-and-growth analysis and Gulf of Alaska juvenile Pacific cod work, respectively.

Since 2001, Alaska BioMap has provided professional program and project management, study design, field and laboratory sampling, data management and analysis, and scientific reporting to seven federal agencies.