Alaska Biomap, Inc.

Alaska Biomap, Inc., doing business as Nature Charters, is a woman-owned small business based in Juneau, Alaska, that provides environmental consulting, ecological survey, wetlands mapping, and GIS data analysis services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor on GSA Multiple Award Schedule task orders and blanket purchase agreements. The company operates under NAICS 541720 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and competes across full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside categories without reliance on 8(a) or other preferential designations.

Alaska Biomap's customer concentration is dominated by natural-resource and marine agencies. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service anchors the portfolio by potential value at $6.5 million across four awards, while the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leads by award count with twenty-one awards totaling $959 thousand. These two agencies account for approximately 72% of combined potential value across the top five customers. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service, and the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration round out the top-five list. A secondary cluster includes the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Northern Region, reflecting Alaska Biomap's geographic focus and expertise in northern and coastal environmental assessment.

All of Alaska Biomap's recent federal work sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which carries twenty-nine task orders worth $9.3 million in combined potential value. The company holds a single-award BPA for wetlands mapping under the MAS vehicle, awarded by the Fish and Wildlife Service in July 2023 with a $5 million ceiling through July 2028. Representative prime work includes a $1.29 million delivery order for National Wetlands Inventory mapping in Southcentral Alaska (Fish and Wildlife Service, May 2023–June 2025), a $450 thousand maritime environmental assessment contract (Maritime Administration, June 2022, extended through August 2026), a $330 thousand BPA call for ecological services and fisheries work on the Arctic Coast (Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7, July 2026), and a $315 thousand delivery order for data analysis supporting Alaska's Division of Water Resources (Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, September 2026–September 2031). Additional work spans mussel surveys in Ohio, marine debris removal and restoration valuation in Alaska, cultural resource surveys for forest lands, and hydrologic data analysis.

Activity has been volatile year to year, with ten awards in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and five in 2026 (first nine months). Nine awards with combined potential value of $1.1 million carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor and opportunity for competitors. Alaska Biomap operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards); the two sub-award records—a Pacific sleeper shark age-and-growth study sub-award under the North Pacific Research Board (June 2024) and a Gulf of Alaska juvenile Pacific cod IBM sub-award under the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (November 2022)—appear incidental to the prime footprint.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset, which covers federal service contracts above $150 thousand, shows Alaska Biomap reported $647 thousand in invoiced revenue across five records (three as prime, two as named subcontractor) in FY2023 and FY2024, with no FY2025 SCI activity in the source. The SCI records are a strict subset of the vendor's federal services work and do not capture goods, micro-purchases, or the bulk of the task-order base. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the company drew an average of 66% of contractor hours from subcontractors, naming four distinct subs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates for Alaska Biomap labor ranged from around $34/hr for biological technician roles to $46/hr at the 90th percentile. The company's GSA labor portfolio spans fourteen categories from Biological Technician I ($32.30/hr) through Project Manager ($161.48/hr), with no security-cleared roles offered and education requirements ranging from None (entry-level technician roles) to bachelor's degree (scientist and manager roles).

Alaska Biomap's capability set centers on field surveys using GPS and aerial imagery analysis, National Wetlands Inventory mapping, GIS services, hydrologic and marine data analysis, ecological assessments supporting conservation planning, and regulatory compliance support. The company has developed deep expertise in Alaskan and northern marine ecosystems and appears positioned for continued growth in federal environmental science and natural-resource management procurement, particularly through the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA.

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.