# Autonomous Recorder

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- Solicitation number: 1240BG25Q0066
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as solicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. for $168,297.86
- Department: Department of Agriculture
- Agency: Forest Service
- Contracting office: Usda-Fs, Csa Northwest 5 (1240BG)
- NAICS: 334310 Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 5835 Sound Recording and Reproducing Equipment
- Set-aside: Total small business set-aside
- Place of performance: Corvallis, Oregon
- County: Benton County (FIPS 41003). https://abierto.us/counties/benton-county-or-41003
- City: Corvallis. https://abierto.us/cities/corvallis-or-4115800
- First posted: September 16, 2025
- Last posted: September 29, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3bd9beb287344b25a4fd5611e090c6cf/view

## Description

USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Autonomous Recorder This purchase directly supports mission-critical work under the Northwest Forest Plan Effectiveness Monitoring Program, which is essential to meeting statutory requirements under the National Forest Management Act (NFMA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Passive acoustic monitoring using autonomous recording units (ARUs) enables efficient, defensible tracking of species presence and trends across large spatial and temporal scales. This information is foundational to evaluating the effects of forest management actions, including timber harvest and wildfire risk reduction projects, as mandated by law and agency policy.

The monitoring program has been repeatedly recognized as critical for informing adaptive management, fulfilling legal obligations, and enabling the continued pace and scale of active forest restoration work across federal lands in the Pacific Northwest. Each season we collect up to approximately 2 million hours of sound data using autonomous sound recording units.

The ARUs we use in the field must be rugged, weatherproof, passive recording devices that are capable of being programmed with sunrise, sunset, and intermittent recording times that can record for several months when left in the field. The units must be able to withstand cold, rainy, and hot weather conditions and must record with high quality ( ?78 dB signal-to-noise ratio) within the range of vocal songbirds and terrestrial mammals between 100-96000 Hz.

There are very few terrestrial autonomous recording units available on the market that can be programmed and left out in the field to record for several months at a time. We will need 313 Units Please review the "Autonomous Recorder Specifications" attachment for the exact specifications needed. Delivery address: PNW Forestry Sciences Laboratory 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis OR 97331 United States

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. (UEI EKXYJAU463C1)
- Contract: 1240BG25P0064, purchase order
- Obligated: $168,297.86
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 3 offers received
- Link: award number 1240BG25P0064 equals the contract number; same awarding office 1240BG (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_1240BG25P0064_12C2_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- September 16, 2025: Solicitation, due September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT. Notice c980a17d1dcc481d82a0ade401150cd6. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c980a17d1dcc481d82a0ade401150cd6/view
- September 16, 2025: Solicitation, due September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT. Notice cfa1dec3e4184ea8a34fc94f6f50d10e. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/cfa1dec3e4184ea8a34fc94f6f50d10e/view
- September 29, 2025: Award notice. Notice 3bd9beb287344b25a4fd5611e090c6cf. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/3bd9beb287344b25a4fd5611e090c6cf/view

## Points of contact

- William Ristoff, william.g.ristoff@usda.gov

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