Coastal Geospatial Services Contract Vehicle

Overview

This open-ended contracting vehicle provides a fast and easy way for governmental entities (local, state, or federal) to acquire geospatial services from the private sector. The data and tools acquired and developed through this contract must be used for coastal resource management applications.

The contract, a Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 36 architectural and engineering vehicle, is made up of five individual contracts awarded to five contract teams, with each team having one prime contractor. Each of the five contracts shares a $49 million maximum over the life of the five-year contract, which means the contracts are classified as indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple-year task orders.

The contract is managed by NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management in Charleston, South Carolina, with contracting officer services provided by NOAA’s Western Acquisition Division in Boulder, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington. Contract management and limited technical consultation are provided. NOAA will assess a fee of 2.5% of the total contract cost for all task orders.

How to Use the Contract

For entities external to NOAA, a memorandum of understanding with NOAA is required to use this contract. Onsite contract management and limited technical consultation are provided at no cost. Individual task orders are managed using the Task Order Management and Information System (TOMIS), a web-based system that allows the contractors and the government to monitor and document contract and contractor performance.

Services Provided on Contract

1. Data acquisition using multiple platforms, including aerial, satellite, ship-based, subsurface, and unmanned vehicles. Data acquisition will include topographic and bathymetric lidar, multispectral and hyperspectral imagery, multibeam and side-scan sonar, and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR).
2. Thematic mapping for land use and land cover, impervious surfaces, and wetland and benthic habitats, including demonstrated methods using supervised and unsupervised classification techniques
3. Survey and control services, including tide and water level collections for tidal datum determination and independent ground control surveys for accuracy assessments
4. Coastal engineering services, including natural and nature-based design and construction; wave, tide, and sediment transport modeling; erosion control; and soft and hard stabilization solutions
5. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services, including data production, geospatial data and map service development, and data management, conversion, integration, analysis, modeling, and visualization
6. Geospatial training

Contract Features

• Provides access to the geospatial industry’s top performers, with approximately 70 subcontractors available through the prime contractors
• Is available to other federal, state, and local agencies through memorandums of understanding
• Can rapidly award task orders in times of national disasters