The Woods Hole Group, Inc.

The Woods Hole Group, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit environmental and scientific consulting firm based in Bourne, Massachusetts, delivers satellite tracking and data transmission services, oceanographic field operations, and environmental monitoring to federal agencies as a prime contractor on 99% of recent awards, competing full-and-open with no reliance on set-aside categories.

The Woods Hole Group is a subsidiary of CLS, a French company, and holds a subsidiary relationship to the international ARGOS Satellite Network, positioning it as the sole North American provider of ARGOS satellite platform access and data transmission services to federal agencies. The company's federal footprint concentrates on marine science, vessel monitoring, wildlife tracking, and oceanographic operations — capabilities grounded in recent work including a $9.2 million time-and-materials delivery order from NOAA for operation, maintenance, and repair of the National Water Level Observation Network and Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) in the Western Gulf Region running through September 2033; a $6.7 million order for the same services in the East Coast Mid-Atlantic region through July 2029; a $1.87 million definitive contract from Naval Sea Systems Command for satellite airtime and technical services through September 2030; and a $4.9 million delivery order from NOAA for NWLON/PORTS operation in the East Coast Northeast Region through July 2029. Smaller awards include satellite data transmission services for marine mammal and sea turtle tracking, vessel monitoring system data relay, and migratory bird ARGOS tag services ranging from $2,000 to $245,000.

Customer concentration sits heavily with civilian oceanographic and wildlife agencies. NOAA dominates both volume and dollars — 74 awards across $218.5 million combined potential value — covering 82% of the top five agencies by count and 89% of the top five by potential value. The Army Corps of Engineers (42 awards, $9.4 million) provides the secondary concentration, anchored on a $13.9 million combined potential value across 45 task orders under an indefinite-delivery contract. USGS (27 awards, $4.9 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (3 awards, $4.7 million), and multiple Fish and Wildlife Service regional offices round out the active set. The Woods Hole Group operates across 35 distinct agencies, but 67% of all awards fund NOAA, USACE, USGS, and Fish and Wildlife work.

The vendor holds position on four material NOAA IDIQs: a $74 million multiple-award Environmental Field Services contract (Center for Oceanographic Products and Services) supporting water-level and oceanographic station installation, operation, and maintenance nationwide; a $6.5 million single-award ARGOS Platform and Data Transmission Services IDIQ for NOAA Fisheries' marine mammal and sea turtle monitoring; and two additional Army Corps of Engineers indefinite-delivery contracts. The top five parent vehicles account for roughly $46 million combined potential value and 86 task orders — a pattern indicating the vendor's federal revenue streams to task orders against standing IDIQs rather than standalone competitive awards.

Activity has remained flat to declining year over year — 16 awards in 2023 declining to 9 in 2026 — but dollar concentration has shifted upstream toward larger, longer-running delivery orders on established vehicles. Thirteen awards (combined potential value $5.6 million) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The vendor performs substantially all work as a prime with minimal subcontracting — SCI data shows zero sub-hours share across sampled prime contracts and 99% of awards carried as prime versus sub roles. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $6.5 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $2.1 million in FY2025, but this captures only labor-intensive delivery orders; the vendor's satellite airtime, data access, and equipment sales (which dominate its award count and potential value) fall outside SCI thresholds. On SCI-reportable contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $1,910/hr, with senior technical labor pricing through $24,800/hr.

The Woods Hole Group also holds federal grant roles as a prime recipient from the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), with three project grants totaling $450,000 awarded between June 2023 and August 2024 to advance marine animal movement studies through satellite tagging data collection and submission to the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network Data Assembly Center. The vendor acts as sub-recipient on three grants from Texas A&M University, Electric Power Research Institute, and the University of Miami, supporting coastal resilience research, acoustic monitoring site access, and oceanographic data quality control respectively.