Geospatial Research Integration Development Support II (GRIDS II)

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Center established Geospatial Research Integration Development Support II (GRIDS II), a master IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $248.5 million, on February 28, 2012. The vehicle is no longer accepting orders; the last date to order against GRIDS II was February 12, 2018, over eight years ago. The successor vehicle, Geospatial Research Integration Development Support III, was awarded on that same date. GRIDS II was preceded by the original Geospatial Research Integration Development Support contract, awarded in 2006.

Over its six-year ordering window, GRIDS II issued 105 task orders with a combined potential value of $240.5 million, of which $224.5 million (93 percent) has been obligated. Ordering momentum declined sharply in the final years: the vehicle sustained 26 and 22 orders annually in 2014 and 2015, respectively, before dropping to 10 orders in 2016, 9 in 2017, and only 2 in early 2018.

Work centers on geospatial research, analysis, and data services. Awarded task orders span systems engineering and integration for combat terrain information systems, enterprise data services for modeling and simulation, geospatial intelligence standardization, geospatial enterprise node services, spatial data standards for facilities and infrastructure, and general geospatial research and analysis supporting Army, Air Force, and Navy requirements.

Competition is heavily concentrated. Leidos, Inc. holds 74 of the 105 task orders and $191.6 million in combined potential value—80 percent of the vehicle total. Research Innovations Incorporated, Ogsystems, LLC, and United Federal Systems, Inc. account for the remaining 31 orders and $49.9 million combined. Customer concentration also skews sharply toward the awarding office: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Center placed 92 orders for $212.2 million, representing 88 percent of activity by order count and 88 percent by value. All other customer agencies—Army, Air Force Materiel Command, and Marine Corps—combined account for fewer than 10 orders and roughly $12 million.

Approximately 76 percent of task orders carry no set-aside designation; 24 percent are set aside for small business (Total Small Business), reflecting two distinct award tracks within the vehicle. Task orders are priced predominantly on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis, with some firm-fixed-price awards. Recent task orders in the $300 thousand to $5 million range are representative, though larger orders reached $10 million to $11 million in potential value. Because this vehicle has closed to new orders for over eight years, pursuit is not viable for new work.

The GRIDS II program is intended to identify and address gaps in geospatial science and technologies, develop geospatial services and enabled architectures, and then provide biometric tools, applications, technologies, techniques and procedures, and then finally database development management and experience.