SP Cramer & Associates Inc.

SP Cramer & Associates Inc., doing business as Cramer Fish Sciences, is a West Sacramento-based small business providing environmental DNA analysis, fisheries monitoring, aquatic habitat restoration, and natural resource consulting to federal land and conservation agencies as a prime contractor on 96% of recent awards. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey, with a $50 million single-award blanket purchase agreement from the USDA Forest Service for integrated land management services.

Cramer Fish Sciences' customer base concentrates heavily on Interior bureaus. The top five funding entities account for 74% of awards by count: the Bureau of Reclamation leads with 18 awards totaling $14.5 million combined potential value, followed by Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 (10 awards), Fish and Wildlife Service overall (5 awards), NASA Shared Services Center (4 awards, $273 thousand), and USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (3 awards, $33 thousand). By dollar value, the USDA Forest Service dominates with a single $50 million ceiling on the Land Management Integrated Resources BPA awarded April 2023 through March 2033, which accounts for 75% of the vendor's combined potential value and is available for task orders from any federal agency. The Bureau of Reclamation's $14.5 million remains the second-largest customer pool.

The vendor's concrete capability footprint centers on environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding and qPCR analysis, real-time genetic monitoring of salmonid populations, field-based spawning and stranding surveys, riparian habitat assessment and restoration design, invasive species detection and removal, and aquatic ecosystem monitoring. Representative work includes a $3.065 million Bureau of Reclamation contract (October 2025–September 2030, no subcontracting permitted) for real-time genetic identification of juvenile salmonid tissue samples from Central Valley Project salvage facilities requiring rapid turnaround to inform operational water-export decisions; a $567,926 Bureau of Reclamation purchase order (March 2026–March 2031, Total Small Business set-aside) for bi-weekly spawning and stranding surveys along the lower American River between Nimbus Dam and Watt Avenue Bridge, including GPS mapping, GIS database development, and crew-level field execution; a $32 thousand Bureau of Land Management literature review and technical analysis (June–October 2026, Total Small Business set-aside) of monitoring methods for non-wadeable streams and rivers covering geomorphology, streamflow, water quality, macroinvertebrates, and riparian vegetation; a $441,737 Fish and Wildlife Service project grant under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CFDA 15.648, July 2024–May 2028) for multi-phase habitat restoration and monitoring on the Stanislaus River downstream of Orange Blossom Bridge; and a $16,413 USGS eDNA lab assay services contract (January 2024, completed April 2025, Total Small Business set-aside).

Activity shows growth in recent years after a period of sparseness: one award in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, and six through September 2026. Only two awards (combined potential value $17 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure outside the evergreen BPA. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor invoiced $4.2 million in prime contracts from FY2022 through FY2025 (FY2024 showed no SCI-reportable invoicing), with FY2022 delivering $1.4 million across 4.2 FTEs, FY2023 at $1.5 million across 4.7 FTEs, and FY2025 at $1.3 million across 3.1 FTEs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $141.70 per hour, with senior labor pricing reaching $450 per hour and entry-level rates near $114 per hour. The vendor performed 0% of hours through subcontractors across prime SCI-reportable contracts, building its own delivery teams. As a sub, Cramer Fish Sciences has performed technical support work for Stantec Consulting Services on Central Valley Project long-term operation services (two subcontract task orders in late 2025 and January 2026).

NAICS concentration spans environmental consulting (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services dominates with 12 awards, Environmental Consulting Services accounts for 9 awards, and Testing Laboratories for 3). PSC codes cluster around Special Studies/Analysis–Animal/Fisheries (8 awards) and Environmental Systems Protection–Environmental Consulting and Legal Support (5 awards), with secondary work in R&D space science and Natural Resources/Conservation–Fisheries Resources Management.

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.