Northwest Marine Technology, Inc.

Northwest Marine Technology, Inc. operates as the exclusive federal supplier of proprietary fish tagging systems and coded wire tag products, serving as a prime contractor across all 701 recent awards to the Department of the Interior and other civilian agencies with no subcontractor activity. The firm is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer based in Anacortes, Washington, competing on full-and-open procurement across single-award indefinite-delivery contracts rather than through federal set-aside vehicles despite its SDB certification.

The company's capability portfolio centers on specialized aquatic resource management equipment: coded wire tags (standard-length and mass-marking variants), Visible Implant Elastomer tags, VI Alpha tags, the proprietary AutoFish automated tagging system (capable of processing over 60,000 salmonids per shift), trailers, repair services, and fish mass marking operations for salmon species. Representative work spans a $566.8 million coded wire tags delivery order from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (February 4, 2026), a $1.5 million tagging trailer from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (March 13, 2023), a $1.5 million AutoFish System trailer from Bureau of Reclamation Trinity River Fish Hatchery (September 17, 2024), and a $920 thousand trailer refurbishment (January 5, 2023). All recent awards reference the vendor's status as the sole manufacturer of compatible technologies; federal agencies document no alternative suppliers.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Interior Department fisheries operations. The top five funding agencies account for 53 percent of recent awards by count: Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 leads with 181 awards and $19.6 million potential value, followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (73 awards, $28.8 million), Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (56 awards, $41.9 million), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (32 awards, $722 thousand), and Bureau of Reclamation (31 awards, $11.8 million). By dollar concentration, the ranking shifts: Region 3 anchors the top tier at $41.9 million (56 awards), reflecting the largest IDIQ ceiling, followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters at $28.8 million, Region 1 at $19.6 million, Bureau of Reclamation at $11.8 million, and the Army Corps of Engineers at $7.8 million across 19 awards.

Northwest Marine Technology holds three primary IDIQs totaling approximately $22.9 million through 2031: a $13.8 million single-award IDIQ with Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (ultimate completion March 31, 2028, awarded March 31, 2023), a $5.7 million single-award IDIQ with Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters Region 9 (ultimate completion December 31, 2028, awarded December 27, 2023), and a $3.4 million single-award IDIQ with Bureau of Reclamation (ultimate completion February 15, 2031, awarded February 18, 2026). Task-order activity under legacy IDIQs continues: INF06PC60109 carries 131 task orders ($7.9 million combined potential value), INF12PC00137 carries 75 task orders ($7.6 million), and 140F0118D0014 (Western Washington Fish Resource Office) carries 52 task orders ($6.8 million). Top NAICS codes by award count are Finfish Farming and Fish Hatcheries (211 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (204 awards), reflecting the dual nature of equipment supply and fish handling services.

Award volume has grown modestly over the trailing five years—from ten awards in 2022 to twenty in 2023, stabilizing around 15 to 19 annually through 2025—with ten awards recorded through mid-2026. Only two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $75 thousand), signaling minimal recompete exposure in the near term given the extended IDIQs in place through 2028 and 2031. On Service Contract Inventory records (covering federal service contracts above $150,000), the vendor reported $568 thousand across 1.9 FTEs in FY2024 and $1.8 million across 4.5 FTEs in FY2025—a narrow slice of total federal activity and restricted to service categories. SCI-captured government-paid hourly rates hold steady at $146.34/hr (10th percentile through 90th percentile), indicating uniform rate application across the small sample. The vendor builds no subcontractor teams; zero percent of SCI-reportable hours flow through named subs, and sub awards constitute zero percent of the prime portfolio.