Geospatial Products and Services Contract V3 (GPSC3)

The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey established the Geospatial Products and Services Contract V3, a Master IDIQ worth $750 million combined potential value, on February 10, 2016, but ordering closed on April 20, 2022. The vehicle is no longer available for new task orders; all obligable value has been committed.

The contract funded GIS and geospatial production services spanning digital aerial photography, digital aerotriangulation, airborne LiDAR, photogrammetric mapping, remote sensing, topographic mapping, river navigational charting, and land use/land cover analysis. The primary customer was the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with limited capacity extended to the Mississippi Valley Division and Jacksonville, Memphis, and Mobile Districts. Task orders reflect work performed nationwide, including geophysical surveys, ortho imagery acquisition, elevation data processing, and state and regional mapping initiatives across 48 states, Hawaii, Alaska, and select international locations.

Three primes captured 83 percent of awarded task orders by count: NV5 Geospatial, Inc. (121 orders, $136.5 million combined potential value), Woolpert, Inc. (61 orders, $109.2 million), and Dewberry Engineers Inc. (55 orders, $101.6 million combined potential value). Merrick-Surdex Joint Venture LLP and smaller firms including Quantum Spatial, Sanborn, Inc., and Fugro Earthdata filled the remainder. Nearly all work (99 percent of 332 task orders) was unrestricted competitive procurement; two orders carried partial small-business designations.

The US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants was the sole customer, awarding 332 orders between February 2016 and September 2021. Ordering activity averaged roughly 55 orders per year over the final five contract years. Combined task-order potential value reached $463.1 million, representing 62 percent of the vehicle's $750 million ceiling; $462.1 million was obligated. Task-order values ranged from under $70,000 to $5.2 million, with typical orders valued between $700,000 and $3 million. Most task orders carried firm-fixed-price terms and completion periods of 12 to 36 months.

This is the third 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.