S.P. Cramer & Associates, Inc.

S.P. Cramer & Associates, Inc., doing business as Cramer Fish Sciences, is a Portland, Oregon-based fisheries and aquatic ecosystem research contractor delivering environmental monitoring, fish population sampling, and natural resource management services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 90% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on environmental restoration assessments. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open designations, with no SBA certifications in the source data.

Cramer Fish Sciences' capability portfolio is tightly focused on fisheries science, aquatic ecology, and biological monitoring. Core services include rotary screw trap sampling and juvenile fish population monitoring, passive integrated transponder (PIT) marking and bulk tagging, coded wire tag (CWT) database development and management, environmental DNA (eDNA) and metabarcoding analysis, spawning surveys, and mark-recapture and acoustic telemetry studies. Work encompasses Chinook salmon, steelhead, and other anadromous fish population assessment across Western watersheds. Representative prime work includes a $13.8 million delivery order with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for rotary screw trap sampling (Tasks 1–6) under the Biological and Ecological Studies MATOC, awarded March 1, 2023 and running through December 31, 2025; a $7.95 million firm fixed-price contract with the Defense Logistics Agency's Portland branch for juvenile Chinook and steelhead monitoring and PIT tagging across the Willamette Valley Project, awarded March 7, 2025 with completion March 30, 2027; and a $2.178 million Total Small Business purchase order with the Bureau of Reclamation for juvenile steelhead monitoring in the Lower San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers, awarded September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. The top five customer agencies account for 67% of recent awards by count. The Army Corps of Engineers dominates by dollars: 8 awards carrying $56.4 million in combined potential value (75% of the portfolio), with an additional 5 awards through the Corps' Portland District totaling $8.5 million. The Bureau of Reclamation holds 11 awards valued at $3.6 million combined. NOAA carries 9 awards, though with lower dollar magnitudes ($206 thousand combined). The Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey round out the active customer base. The two rankings diverge meaningfully: by volume, Bureau of Reclamation leads; by dollars, Corps of Engineers dominates through a small number of large, multi-year delivery orders.

Cramer Fish Sciences sits on three primary contract vehicles. The Biological and Ecological Studies MATOC, a Corps of Engineers small business vehicle, anchors the portfolio with 6 task orders valued at $15.1 million combined. The GSA Federal Supply Schedule GS10F0102R carries 8 task orders worth $1.3 million combined, and the Multiple Award Schedule hosts 9 orders totaling $764 thousand combined. The Professional Services Schedule and a single indefinite delivery contract round out the parent vehicle mix.

Activity has been volatile. The vendor awarded four contracts in 2022, two in 2023, eight in 2024, then three each in 2025 and 2026 (year-to-date through June). Five awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $10.6 million and face recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Cramer Fish Sciences delivers environmental restoration planning and natural resource damage assessment technical support to Industrial Economics Inc. on NOAA Office of Response and Restoration task orders for Portland Harbor and Lower Duwamish River Superfund sites (awarded December 2022, August 2024); it also serves as a sub-recipient under a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for Trinity River Restoration limiting factors analysis work (awarded January 2024).

SCI-reportable invoicing (federal service contracts above $150,000 threshold) totaled $1.4 million in FY2025 across 0.5 FTEs, with no reportable invoicing in FY2023 or FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran at $104.71/hr across all percentiles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 23% of total hours, with one named subcontractor reported. The SCI dataset is a narrow subset of the vendor's federal contract revenue, which totals $74.7 million across 52 awards; SCI covers only service contracts above the reporting threshold and excludes the large supply-heavy monitoring and sampling delivery orders that form the bulk of Cramer Fish Sciences' portfolio.

Cramer Fish Sciences is a group of over 40 multidisciplinary professionals that serve as leading advisors, investigators, and problem solvers of fish, aquatic, and riparian resource problems.

We are known for our:

Expertise regarding fisheries, riparian and aquatic resources in the western United States

Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate technical issues

Skill in pioneering innovative and practical solutions to difficult problems

Scientific credibility with a wide spectrum of government agencies, resource managers, and resource industries, and

Experience and expertise in many scientific disciplines that are closely related to fisheries, including biostatistics, freshwater and estuarine ecology, geomorphology and hydrology, and regulatory compliance.