7G--OR-KLAMATH FALLS FWO-ACOUSTIC TRANSMITTE

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Department of the Interior, has awarded a sole-source contract valued at $204,501.75 for the procurement of proprietary acoustic transmitters from Innovasea to support the third year of a multi-year study tracking endangered juvenile fish in the Klamath Falls, Oregon region. The acquisition was justified under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) and (ii) as a simplified acquisition threshold purchase due to the necessity of maintaining technical continuity and data integrity across the project’s existing monitoring grid of over 80 Innovasea receivers. Switching vendors would risk data corruption, loss of longitudinal comparability, and the potential need to replace a $1 million receiver infrastructure, making Innovasea the only viable source. The transmitters will be implanted in fish for 15 to 30 months to enable high-resolution movement and survival tracking using calibrated, encrypted proprietary protocols that align with established USFWS data standards. No competitive evaluation was conducted, and no formal evaluation factors, weights, or trade-off analyses apply. The contract performance is implicitly located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, with inspection and acceptance expected in situ upon deployment. Packaging, marking, barcoding, and preservation requirements are not specified in detail, though the need to maintain device functionality and data integrity over long-term field use is implied. The contracting officer, Solmaz Salih, and program officer, McKenzie Wasley, are identified, but no contracting officer’s representative or technical representative is named. No formal attachments, MIL-STDs, or detailed inspection criteria are included, and the contract lacks explicit delivery schedules, FOB terms, or invoicing instructions. The vendor’s size status, UEI, or CAGE code are not disclosed, and no offeror certifications or representations are provided. The agency code is 140F1G, and the contract was signed on June 3, 2026, following a sole-source justification certified on April 14, 2026.