Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Portable Multibeam Echosounder Surveying Suite of Equipment
Deadline: 20 Apr 2026
Posting Date: 08 Apr 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 139214070
Document Ref. No.: 141009-26-0003
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Solicitation Number:141009-26-0003
Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis
TITLE: Portable Multibeam Echosounder Surveying Suite of Equipment
Response Date: 04/20/2026
This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS and is not a presolicitation announcement. The purpose of this Market Research and Sources Sought Notice is to gain knowledge of potential qualified U.S Domestic businesses, which could include Small Business, HUBZone, 8(a), Service Disabled Veteran owned, Women owned Small Business firms and even large businesses. Responses to this Sources Sought Synopsis will be used by the Government in making appropriate acquisition decisions.
The NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), Navigation Services Division (NSD), Navigation Response Branch requires a fully integrated, portable, and rapidly-deployable multibeam surveying suite of equipment to be used in response work.
BACKGROUND:
Office of Coast Survey, Navigation Services Division, Navigation Response Branch requires a fully integrated and highly portable multibeam surveying suite of equipment; consisting of multibeam echosounder, integrated positioning and orientation system, integrated surface sound speed sensor, associated antennas, cables, light-weight sonar mounting system, and all associated hardware necessary to mount the system on a vessel of opportunity. Navigation Response Teams use the portable sonars primarily to conduct emergency response hydrographic survey operations from vessels of opportunity in areas where response with traditional Navigation Response Team vessels is not feasible (i.e. Caribbean or Pacific Islands, Alaska, or remote areas not accessible by roads). The portable sonar equipment is used to identify wrecks, rocks, obstructions, and provide high density depth information to incident coordinators and other decision makers during response operations; and to support Coast Survey's nautical charting mission. The ability to rapidly deploy a hydrographic m...
Notice ID: 141009-26-0003
Department/Ind. Agency: commerce, department of
Sub-tier: national oceanic and atmospheric administration
Office: dept of commerce noaa
Product Service Code: 5845 - underwater sound equipment
NAICS Code: 334511 - Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
Inactive Dates: apr 21, 2026
Inactive Policy: manual
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