NOAA ProTech Contract Vehicles


ERG has partnered with experienced NOAA contractors in all four ProTech domains: oceans, weather, satellites, and fisheries, as described below.


Oceans

NOAA Information
Oceans domain overview
Point of contact: Erika Chavarria, protech.oceans@noaa.gov, 301-628-0029

Prime Contractor Information
The Baldwin Group (TBG)
Contract number: 1305M419DNCNA0029
Business size: woman-owned small business
Point of contact: Tina Page, tina@tbgva.com, 703-392-0918

ERG Points of Contact
Lou Nadeau, lou.nadeau@erg.com, 508-735-3608
Arleen O’Donnell, arleen.odonnell@erg.com, 781-674-7220
Charles Goodhue, charles.goodhue@erg.com, 781-674-7249

ERG Qualifications
ERG’s expertise covers several ProTech Oceans Statement of Work areas, including:

  • Social science services
  • Economic analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Survey design
  • Support for National Estuarine Research Reserves
  • Coastal Zone Management program support activities

ERG’s experience working for NOAA’s National Ocean Service includes:

  • Performing a stakeholder analysis for marine spatial planning
  • Supporting NOAA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in developing economic analysis portions of the National Shoreline Management Study
  • Helping NOAA develop and implement the New England Coastal Marine Spatial Planning Workshop
  • Developing a summary and review of human use mapping in the coastal zone
  • Planning and facilitating and meetings and workshops for Pacific Services Center, including Pacific Risk Management O‘hana (PRiMO)
  • Developing a community-based social marketing approach to promoting safe growth in coastal communities
  • Performing a program evaluation of technical assistance provided by the Coastal Services Center
  • Developing stakeholder strategies, tools, and guidance for the Adapting to Rising Tides program in San Francisco Bay
  • Developing and implementing a Sea Level Rise Consensus workshop, results of which were incorporated into the National Climate Assessment for the Pacific Region
  • Analyzing the economic impact of shoreline protection and stabilization projects in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland
  • Developing and implementing the Regional Data Management and Systems Development Workshop
  • Evaluating the NOAA Coastal Storms Program in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Compiling an inventory of regional- and national-level coastal recreation and tourism data
  • Developing and implementing a Shoreline Management Workshop to identify shoreline solutions in the Great Lakes
  • Performing a formative evaluation of the Gulf of Mexico Climate Community of Practice
  • Analyzing the economic, environmental, and social benefits of Regional Ocean Partnerships
  • Developing a risk communication strategy to addresses drowning risks in the Great Lakes
  • Developing a set of pilot economic assessments of climate change adaptation for flooding in the Great Lakes region
  • Developing a community Guide to Assessing Green Infrastructure Costs and Benefits for Flood Reduction
  • Developing What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for Coastal Community Infrastructure
  • Performing a policy analysis of the applications of ecosystem services values in state-level decision-making
  • Performing the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program socioeconomic monitoring survey in Florida and Hawaii
  • Analyzing the economic and social impacts of a changing coastline in the Great Lakes region
  • Developing a set of indicators for measuring tourism resiliency
  • Developing a methodological framework for assessing the value of the National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) System education program
  • Performing an economic valuation of salt marsh ecosystem services for prioritizing restoration decisions following Superstorm Sandy
  • Performing an economic valuation of coastal protection options comparing living shorelines to “hard” infrastructure
  • Understanding and communicating the value of the Gulf of Mexico coastal restoration economy
  • Performing an analysis to estimate the national significance of California’s ocean economy
  • Developing a set of community resilience criteria and indicators for measuring those criteria
  • Assembling literature to document the effectiveness of coastal green infrastructure
  • Performing an ecosystem services assessment for the Great Bay estuary in New Hampshire
  • Supporting NOAA’s work to help the Bureau of Economic Analysis develop an Oceans Economic Satellite Account (OESA) for coastal and ocean economic impact analyses
  • Surveying coral reef managers and professionals for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) to assess use and usefulness of the program’s products and services
  • Developing a regional and national inventory of coastal recreation and tourism data
  • Analysis and characterization of NERR training topics and networks dynamics
  • Performing a needs assessment for the NERR System-Wide Monitoring Program
  • Performing an ecosystem services assessment for Great Lakes coastal wetlands to quantify benefits of potential restoration projects
  • Defining and measuring the blue technology sector
  • Describing the ocean economy of the U.S. Pacific Island territories
  • Assessing the market and non-market value and economic impacts of coastal engagement projects by Sea Grant programs
  • Developing protocols and tools for desk evaluations under CZM Act Section 312 for state CZM programs and NERRs
  • Performing an economic impact assessment of NOAA’s Technology Partnership Program
  • Developing an estimate of the value of NOAA’s ecological forecasting products and services
  • Developing NOAA’s framework for risk and uncertainty communication
  • Developing an economic method for estimating the value of the National CZM Program
  • Developing methods for the NERRs to use in measuring their economic impact and contribution
  • Estimating the economic benefits of NOAA Office for Coastal Management resilience grants
  • Developing a database and framework for coastal managers to understand the benefits and costs of natural and nature-based infrastructure
  • Performing a needs assessment and market analysis of resilience financing tools and options
  • Developing a return on investment framework for precision navigation applied to New York/New Jersey and the lower Mississippi River
  • Incorporating economic data into NOAA flood mapping tools
  • Measuring the impact of Office for Coastal Management programs within the coastal National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System

Weather

NOAA Information
Weather domain overview
Point of contact: Jay Standring, jay.standring@noaa.gov, 301-628-1368

Prime Contractor Information (ERG is on two teams)
M2M Strategies
Contract number: 1305M420DNWWA0064
Business size: woman-owned small business
Point of contact: Willow Marr, wmarr@m2strategy.com, 703-822-5600 ext. 101

INNOVIM, LLC
Contract number: ST-1330-17-CQ-0054
Business size: woman-owned small business
Point of contact: Cindi Brown, CEO and Business Development, cbrown@innovim.com, 240-254-3480

ERG Points of Contact
Linda Girardi, linda.girardi@erg.com, 703-841-0501
Lou Nadeau, lou.nadeau@erg.com, 508-735-3608
Arleen O’Donnell, arleen.odonnell@erg.com, 781-674-7220

ERG Qualifications
ERG’s expertise covers several ProTech SOW areas, including: 

  • Social science services
  • Economic analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Survey design
  • Designing effective communication

Examples of ERG’s weather project experience include:

  • Developing a comprehensive social science framework to assess the current Watch, Warning, and Advisory (WWA) hazardous weather warning system, including extensive public and partner engagement through interviews, focus groups, surveys, and testing
  • Evaluating the NOAA Coastal Storms Program in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Stakeholder needs assessment, engagement, and pilot project development for National Weather Service enhanced water resources prediction in several U.S. river basins
  • Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations program development, stakeholder engagement, communications, and viability assessments for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Weather and Water Extremes
  • Atmospheric river program development, stakeholder engagement, and communications for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Center for Weather and Water Extremes
  • Assessing economic benefits of alternative reservoir operations for Sonoma Water and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
  • Examining barriers to understanding wind- and storm-surge-related risk information and recommending/testing new visualizations to improve comprehension of NWS hurricane forecast products
  • Developing a marketing plan for the National Hurricane Center to roll out new visualizations and messaging about life-threatening storm surge
  • Developing a risk communication strategy to address drowning risks in the Great Lakes
  • Developing pilot societal outcome measures for the NWS Weather-Ready Nation program
  • Assessing the ease of understanding and usefulness of a new NHC product to communicate the arrival of tropical storm force winds
  • Identifying ways to better convey storm surge from extratropical systems and improve extratropical cyclone risk communication
  • Evaluating how the Impact Based Warning system affects public protective action responses and decision-making during severe weather events
  • Evaluating content, messaging, and formatting for the Hurricane Local Statement, an important weather forecast product used by local NWS offices
  • Assessing how partners interpret and use NWS’s probabilistic, internet-based snowfall forecast graphics in decision-making
  • Stakeholder engagement and prototype development for National Water Center flood-related products and services
  • Identifying key partners/users of Weather Prediction Center products and mapping related user decision-making
  • Developing products to enhance national, regional, and local hydrologic forecasts and warnings and decision support services
  • Developing and testing NWS fire weather services from the public perspective
  • Analyzing where current National Water Center partnerships exist and where gaps and deficiencies may need to be addressed on issues related to water quantity
  • Developing NOAA’s framework for risk and uncertainty communication
  • Identifying pilot sites that would benefit from improved ocean economy data and coupled coastal and riverine forecasts; developing valuation methodologies to assess flood impacts on the ocean economy
  • Assessing how key NWS stakeholders in the transportation, tourism and recreation, energy and utilities, and marine sectors interpret and use NHC’s Track Forecast Cone (Cone of Uncertainty) in their decision-making
  • Assessing the ease of understanding and usefulness of a suite of graphics conveying potential hurricane threats and impacts at a local or regional level
  • Conducting usability testing of a prototype website to communicate localized hurricane threats and impacts
  • Developing a systematic approach for estimating the economic and social benefits of NWS products and services with a pilot application to Impact Based Decision Support Services (IDSS)

Satellites

NOAA Information
Satellites domain overview
Point of contact: Virginia Scott, protech.satellite@noaa.gov, 301-628-1379

Prime Contractor Information
INNOVIM, LLC
Contract number: ST-1330-17-CQ-0054
Business size: woman-owned small business
Point of contact: Cindi Brown, CEO and Business Development, cbrown@innovim.com, 240-254-3480

ERG Points of Contact
Lou Nadeau, lou.nadeau@erg.com, 508-735-3608
Arleen O’Donnell, arleen.odonnell@erg.com, 781-674-7220
Charles Goodhue, charles.goodhue@erg.com, 781-674-7249

ERG Qualifications
ERG’s expertise covers several ProTech Satellites SOW areas, including:

  • Social science services
  • Economic analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Survey design

Examples of ERG’s satellites project experience include:

  • Developing an economic benefit analysis of NOAA's space weather prediction system for the electric power grid
  • Performing an economic impact assessment of NOAA's Technology Partnership Program
  • Developing an estimate of the value of NOAA's ecological forecasting products and services
  • Developing NOAA’s framework for risk and uncertainty communication

Fisheries

NOAA Information
Fisheries domain overview
Point of contact: Kenyada Corley, protech.fisheries@noaa.gov, 301-628-1378

Prime Contractor Information
Lynker Technologies, LLC
Contract number: 1305M418DNFFK0017
Business size: historically underutilized business zone small business
Points of contact: Joe Linza | Liz Tarquin, jlinza@lynkertech.com | ltarquin@lynkertech.com, 855-596-5371

ERG Points of Contact
Lou Nadeau, lou.nadeau@erg.com, 508-735-3608
Arleen O’Donnell, arleen.odonnell@erg.com, 781-674-7220
Charles Goodhue, charles.goodhue@erg.com, 781-674-7249

ERG Qualifications
ERG’s expertise covers several ProTech Fisheries SOW areas, including:

  • Social science services
  • Economic analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Survey design
  • Strategic communications

Examples of ERG’s fisheries project experience include:

  • Developing and implementing fisheries socioeconomic monitoring surveys in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic
  • Performing the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program socioeconomic monitoring survey in Florida (2012) and Hawaii (2020)
  • Improving the design and increasing the value of the FishWatch website
  • Supporting NOAA’s work to help the Bureau of Economic Analysis develop an Oceans Economic Satellite Account (OESA) to allow for coastal and ocean economic impact analyses
  • Surveying coral reef managers and professionals for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) to assess use and usefulness of the program’s products and services
  • Facilitation services and support for developing risk and crisis communication strategies and guidance for NOAA Fisheries
  • Assessing the economic impact of NOAA's Technology Partnership Program