Norton Sound Economic Development Corp

Norton Sound Economic Development Corp, a tax-exempt non-profit based in Anchorage, Alaska, operates as a sub-recipient on federal grant programs and as a sole-source prime on a NOAA vessel charter contract, serving Alaska-based research and environmental remediation work in the Bering Strait and northern Bering Sea regions.

Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation is structured as a non-profit organization with no SBA set-aside designation. The vendor's federal footprint is concentrated in two customer agencies: the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (4 awards, $80 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 (1 award). This small scale reflects Norton Sound's role as a community-based operator serving remote Alaskan villages where it maintains relationships with local fishers and village corporations that larger contractors cannot replicate.

On the prime side, Norton Sound holds a sole-source $69,445 firm fixed price purchase order from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center awarded August 1, 2023, for non-personal vessel charter services near St. Lawrence Island. The award runs through December 2025 and covers small fishing vessel deployments from Savoonga to support Pacific cod tagging and distribution studies in the northern Bering Sea. NOAA designated Norton Sound the sole source because it is the only organization in contact with local fishers able to meet the requirement for vessel access and Savoonga-based operations.

On the sub-recipient side, Norton Sound performs environmental remediation and community engagement work under three federal grant programs. Most recently, as a sub-recipient under Ocean Conservancy Inc., Norton Sound is leading marine debris retrieval activities in Brevig Mission and Wales (performance period June 2025 through May 2026), including local crew hiring, permitting from village corporations, debris transport, and data collection. Earlier sub-recipient work included marine debris cleanup adjacent to Brevig Mission and Wales under University of Alaska Fairbanks and Unalakleet River Floating Weir Project management under Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The vendor has no parent contract vehicles, GWAC positions, or IDIQs. Activity shows one award per year across 2023 through 2025, with no recompete cliff signals in the source.