SP Cramer & Associates Inc.

SP Cramer & Associates Inc., doing business as Cramer Fish Sciences, is a small business prime contractor providing fisheries science, environmental DNA analysis, and natural resource monitoring and restoration services to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and other civilian agencies. The vendor competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides on its contract work and holds a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service for integrated land management services available government-wide.

Cramer Fish Sciences is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in West Sacramento, California, specializing in scientific and technical consulting under primary NAICS 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and environmental consulting services. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime contractor—96% of recent awards are primes, with only two sub awards on record, both under Stantec Consulting Services on Central Valley Project technical support work. Across the SCI-reportable service-contract footprint (FY2022–FY2024), Cramer Fish Sciences delivered roughly 4.2 FTEs in FY2022 and 4.7 FTEs in FY2023 to the federal government on prime contracts, with median government-paid rates running around $141.70 per hour and senior labor pricing through $450 per hour. The vendor does not engage named subcontractors on its prime SCI-reportable work.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of the Interior. The Bureau of Reclamation dominates by award count and dollars, with 18 awards (combined potential value $14.5 million) centered on Lower American River steelhead spawning and stranding surveys, and real-time genetic monitoring for the Central Valley Project. These include a $3.1 million firm fixed-price purchase order awarded October 1, 2025, for genetic identification of juvenile salmonid tissue samples to support operational decision-making, and two consecutive Total Small Business purchase orders in January and March 2026 for spawning and stranding field surveys ($42,539 and $567,926 respectively). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 has issued ten awards for salmonid habitat restoration and invasive species management on the Stanislaus River and San Luis Wildlife Refuge. However, the potential-value ranking diverges sharply from award count: the USDA Forest Service's $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources single-award BPA, awarded April 11, 2023, through March 6, 2033, accounts for 75% of combined potential value across all awards but has generated only one award record in the source data, indicating the vehicle is established but task-order activity has not yet scaled or is captured separately. NASA's Shared Services Center has placed four awards worth $273 thousand. Recent activity shows three awards in 2026, two in 2025, and two in 2024, suggesting modest but irregular annual volume; eleven awards (combined potential value $42.7 million) are due to complete within the next twenty-four months, with the $50 million USDA BPA and its task-order stream representing the primary recompete exposure for the vendor.

Cramer Fish Sciences' capability portfolio centers on field-based fisheries monitoring, genetic and environmental DNA analysis for species identification and invasive-species detection, aquatic ecosystem assessment, and multi-phase habitat restoration design and implementation. Representative work includes a $441,737 project grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CFDA 15.648) awarded July 1, 2024, for four-phase habitat enhancement and restoration on the Stanislaus River with completion in May 2028; a $16,413 Total Small Business purchase order from the Office of Acquisitions and Grants for environmental DNA assay lab services completed April 8, 2025; and multiple project grants from Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 on invasive loach removal protocol development (awarded January 31, 2023, through September 30, 2023) and Buffington Tract salmonid habitat restoration (awarded October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023). The vendor acts as prime recipient on all named federal grant awards and has not appeared as a sub-recipient in the source data. Work is performed at West Sacramento administrative offices and at distributed field locations throughout California's Central Valley and northern regions, with seasonal crews typically consisting of fisheries biologists, GIS-competent technicians, and project coordinators.

Provider of fisheries and ecological consulting services, including population modeling, habitat surveys, mand analysis, subbasin planning, population recovery planning, ecological risk assessments, and Endangered Species Act implementation processes.