# After-Hours Support Services for Pre-Trip Notification System (PTNS)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/1305m326q0274

- Solicitation number: 1305M326Q0274
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as combined synopsis and solicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Metropolitan Communication Services, Inc. for $108,556.45
- Department: Department of Commerce
- Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Contracting office: Department of Commerce NOAA (1305M3)
- NAICS: 561421 Telephone Answering Services
- Product or service code: R699 Other Administrative Support Services
- Set-aside: Total small business set-aside
- Place of performance: Woods Hole, Massachusetts
- First posted: June 26, 2026
- Last posted: August 3, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a32ea78e39da42f6a0c4265d190a6e24/view

## Description

SEE ATTACHMENTS This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial products or commercial services prepared in accordance with part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Offers are being requested and a separate written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number 1305M325Q0274 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for after-hours support services for the Pre-Trip Notification System (PTNS) in support of NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

This acquisition is set-aside for small business concerns. This solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses by reference. The full text of provisions and clauses may be accessed electronically at www.acquisition.gov.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Metropolitan Communication Services, Inc. (UEI KJ74NHKMUBF5)
- Contract: 1305M326P0208, purchase order
- Obligated: $21,000.00
- Competition: Competed Under SAP, 12 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 1305M326Q0274 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office 1305M3 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_1305M326P0208_1330_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- June 26, 2026: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due July 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT. Notice e16cef276dd24e829d529d86ff010f96. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e16cef276dd24e829d529d86ff010f96/view
- June 30, 2026: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due July 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT. Notice c47f86fa1e09439084f0066d4e56baad. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c47f86fa1e09439084f0066d4e56baad/view
- July 2, 2026: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due July 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT. Notice bd1b7a9f3de946c2ab36a4f3aa80cac3. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/bd1b7a9f3de946c2ab36a4f3aa80cac3/view
- August 3, 2026: Award notice. Notice a32ea78e39da42f6a0c4265d190a6e24. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a32ea78e39da42f6a0c4265d190a6e24/view

## Points of contact

- Hillary Whitehurst, hillary.whitehurst@noaa.gov

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