Roetker Fred

Roetker Fred, a small business sole proprietorship based in Lafayette, Louisiana, provides specialized migratory bird population monitoring, aerial survey, and wildlife observation services to the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service as a prime contractor under a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement. The vendor operates entirely through set-aside vehicles — all nine awards in the portfolio carry a Total Small Business designation or no set-aside, with 100% of work performed as prime contractor.

Roetker Fred's capability portfolio centers on migratory bird management observation and aerial survey services supporting the Fish and Wildlife Service's Division of Migratory Bird Management. Representative work includes a $25,200 call order awarded May 1, 2025, for migratory bird management aerial observer services in Bangor, Maine (completion July 5, 2025); a $30,300 waterfowl breeding survey call awarded May 1, 2024, for field work across waterfowl flyways (completion June 20, 2024); a $31,505.45 migratory bird observation call awarded April 13, 2023, performed in Orono, Maine; and a $7,771.71 bald eagle nest occupancy survey call awarded March 1, 2024. Work involves population counts, habitat monitoring, seasonal breeding surveys, nest occupancy assessments, and collection of visual data to inform conservation efforts, habitat management strategies, and hunting regulation development under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Customer concentration is absolute — the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service accounts for all nine awards and the full $2.4 million combined potential value. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters anchors the portfolio with four awards totaling $2.3 million. Place of performance spans multiple regions, including Bangor, Maine; Laurel, Maryland; Lafayette, Louisiana; and Orono, Maine, with administrative oversight at Fish and Wildlife Service regional offices.

The vendor holds a single-award BPA (ceiling $2.25 million, effective through July 31, 2032) established August 1, 2022, under which seven of the nine awards have been issued as firm fixed-price call orders. Seven task orders under this BPA carry a combined potential value of $107 thousand. Recent activity shows two awards in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026, with obligations lagging significantly behind potential value — only $133 thousand (6% of potential value) has been obligated across the entire portfolio as of the source snapshot. All work is designated firm fixed-price with performance locations distributed nationwide.