Geospatial Products and Services Contract V2 (GPSC2)

The Department of the Interior's US Geological Survey established the Geospatial Products and Services Contract V2, a Master IDIQ for geospatial production services including GIS, digital aerial photography, airborne LiDAR, photogrammetric mapping, remote sensing, topographic mapping, and land use/land cover analysis, with the last ordering date of August 8, 2016 now passed.

The vehicle is closed to new task orders as of nearly a decade ago. It succeeded the original Geospatial Products and Services Contract (awarded December 2006) and was itself succeeded by the Geospatial Products and Services Contract V3 (awarded February 2016), indicating this IDIQ is no longer the primary vehicle for this work. The shared ceiling was $35.7 million. During its active ordering window from April 2010 through January 2016, the vehicle issued 75 task orders with combined potential value of $23.9 million, fully obligated. Ordering momentum peaked at 16 orders in 2014 before tapering to a single order in the final year of the ordering period.

Work centered on airborne LiDAR acquisition and orthoimagery production at varying ground-sample distances. Representative orders include projects in Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Mexico, spanning QL1 and QL2 LiDAR specifications and 0.075 to 1.0 meter resolution orthorectified imagery. Task orders ranged from approximately $13,800 to $1.25 million, with typical values in the $300,000 to $900,000 range. Firm fixed price was the standard pricing model; one order used Labor Hours.

Three primes held all 75 awards. Digital Aerial Solutions, LLC dominated with 35 orders valued at $10.8 million combined potential value (roughly 45 percent of vehicle activity), followed by Fugro Earthdata, Inc. with 22 orders at $8 million (33 percent), and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation with 18 orders at $5.1 million (21 percent). All orders were unrestricted competition with no set-aside designations. The single customer across all 75 task orders was the Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants, meaning this vehicle was mission-directed to a single organizational customer despite the advertised New Orleans District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers focus.

This is the second iteration of the GPSC contract under DOI's US Geological Survey Division. The purpose of the Geospatial Product and Services Master IDIQ contract consists of GIS and geospatial production services, digital aerial photography, digital aerotriangulation, airborne LiDAR, photogrammetric mapping, remote sensing, large and small-scale topographic mapping, river navigational charting, and land use/land cover analysis and mapping. The services will mainly serve the nees the New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Contract capacity may given to the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as the Jacksonville, Memphis, and Mobile Districts on a limited basis.