USDA STRATUS EGMO GIS Support
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Agency
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Assistant Secretary for Departmental Management
Department of Agriculture
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- Total Small Business
Opportunity facts
- Place of performance
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Points of contact
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About this opportunity
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a Special Notice seeking vendor support for the Enterprise Geospatial Management Office (EGMO) to advance requirements of the Geospatial Data Act. This opportunity, titled "USDA STRATUS EGMO GIS Support," is posted as a total small business set-aside competition through the USDA STRATUS Pool 2 BOA. The Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Departmental Management is the issuing agency for this remote work opportunity. The contract falls under the IT and Telecommunications category for business application and application development support services. The opportunity was posted on July 23, 2025, with responses due by August 23, 2025.
The primary objective is to support USDA's implementation of the Geospatial Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2021-2024, which focuses on four key goals including GDA compliance, strengthening business engagement, increasing inter-agency cooperation, and empowering the USDA geospatial community. Contractors must provide capabilities in digital mapping services, geospatial information systems software management, consistent data standards and application governance, and shared geospatial services platforms. The scope includes developing web-based and mobile applications, managing software rationalization and user personas, creating geospatial metadata systems, and supporting enterprise architecture for data accessibility and interoperability. Only small businesses are eligible to participate in this set-aside competition, with contract performance conducted remotely. The initiative aims to create cost efficiencies through collaborative partnerships while supporting USDA's multiple mission areas with specific geospatial requirements.
Notice text
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks a vendor to assist the Department working through the Enterprise Geospatial Management Office (EGMO) to support and further advance the requirements of the Geospatial Data Act (GDA).
With the formation of a multi-agency team, the Geospatial Information Officer at the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), working through the Enterprise Geospatial Management Office, published the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Geospatial Strategic Plan (GSP) for Fiscal Years 2021-2024.
The GSP lays out the strategy for advancing geospatial information and related technology and activities, and identifies four key goals:
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Implement the requirements of the GDA and align with associated directives and legislation.
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Strengthen business engagement to increase understanding of the value of geospatial data, information, tools, and technology.
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Increase inter-agency cooperation by implementing collaborative partnerships to create geospatial cost efficiencies.
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Empower the USDA geospatial community of practice in support of the USDA’s mission.
USDA includes multiple mission areas that have specific geospatial requirements and geospatial support applications. These mission areas have ongoing and evolving needs and support. OCIO provides support for infrastructure and high-level governance.
The scope of this requirement includes provision of the following capabilities:
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Support digital mapping services: The capability will address requirements to connect data sources using geospatial information system software to geospatial functions to produce web-based or mobile applications. The services range from provisioning interactive mapping products to supporting geospatial data and application portals by managing the development or integration of new applications, and the management of the integration of new data products.
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Support geospatial information systems software management: includes addressing the rationalization of software usage, including the documentation of user personas (UP) and the alignment of software configurations to address UP requirements. Additionally, support for agency customer support staff in relation to elements of GIS software management.
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Support the use of consistent data standards and application governance: understanding how to create geospatial metadata and manage systems that catalog such metadata and improve USDA’s ability to make the data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
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Support shared geospatial services platforms (data; applications, raster- and geospatial data-optimized data pipelines; and enterprise architecture) for the geospatial enterprise to allow for innovation and adaptation of best practices and technologies, while taking advantage of best of breed deployment environments.
Place of Contract Performance: Remote
Set-aside Status: Small business set aside competition via USDA STRATUS Pool 2 BOA
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