Advanced Internet Marketing, Inc.

Advanced Internet Marketing, Inc., doing business as The GBS Group, is an SBA-certified women-owned small business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that provides shipboard engineering, machinery control systems modernization, and integrated technical services to maritime federal agencies as a prime contractor (81% of awards) and as a subcontractor to defense primes. The vendor operates across Seaport-NXG, OASIS+, and agency-specific IDIQs, competing predominantly in full-and-open vehicle procurements (non-set-aside delivery orders and purchase orders represent the bulk of recent activity) alongside smaller targeted small-business set-asides with Military Sealift Command and the Coast Guard.

The GBS Group's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward naval and maritime agencies. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates potential value across all customers: 75 awards carrying a combined ceiling of $10.4 billion account for the entire potential-value ranking, anchored by multi-million-dollar machinery control systems engineering, combat systems communication support, and in-service engineering agent (ISEA) delivery orders under Seaport-NXG. Military Sealift Command ranks second with 62 awards ($165 million combined potential value) spanning electrical services IDIQs, integrated bridge system upgrades, and shipboard repair task orders. The U.S. Coast Guard contributes volume (123 awards, 42% of recent activity by count) but lower ceiling values ($24.8 million combined potential), concentrated on maintenance, repair, and technical support orders for the CGC MACKINAW icebreaker and other vessels. Together, these three agencies account for 96% of recent awards. NOAA and the Army Corps of Engineers round out the active set with machinery control system work and vessel modifications.

The GBS Group holds position on three government-wide vehicles and one agency-specific IDIQ. The Seaport-NXG multiple-award GWAC (administered by Navy under NAVSEA) is the single largest parent vehicle, with 25 task orders valued at $114 million, primarily for in-service engineering, software support, and control systems engineering across LSD, MCM, LPD, and DDG platforms. The vendor also sits on the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside IDIQ (awarded December 2024, multi-billion-dollar ceiling, government-wide scope through December 2029) and the OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business IDIQ (awarded September 2024, multi-billion-dollar ceiling through September 2029), both enabling civilian agency competition across seven functional domains. A $44.6 million single-award MSC electrical services IDIQ (awarded June 2025, running through June 2030) supports turn-key repair and maintenance of shipboard electrical systems on sealift vessels. The vendor also references a Coast Guard CGC MACKINAW IDC with $1.68 million ceiling running through September 2026.

Activity has grown year over year from 13 awards in 2022 to a peak of 35 in 2024, with 31 awards in 2025, though 2026 shows only 4 awards to date (source date is mid-July 2026). Only three awards (combined potential value $25.1 million) complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited recompete exposure in the immediate window. The vendor's recent major prime awards include a $50.1 million Naval Sea Systems Command cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (January 2026) for steam, auxiliary, and ventilation engineering services support under Seaport-NXG (ultimate completion January 2031), a $6.66 million Military Sealift Command total small business set-aside purchase order (September 2025) for design, build, install, and test of an integrated bridge system on the USNS COMFORT through December 2027, a $5.86 million MSC purchase order (July 2023) for USNS MERCY integrated bridge system upgrade, and a $4.96 million NOAA purchase order (September 2023) for design, procurement, and installation of telephone, PA, and alarm systems across four FSV-class research vessels through August 2028.

In its subcontractor role, the GBS Group delivers machinery control system engineering and technical support to Life Cycle Engineering (the dominant prime partner, with multiple ISEA and systems engineering task orders for LPD, LSD, LSM, and DDG platforms), Crowley Government Services (operating-and-maintenance task orders for vessel propulsion and electrical systems), Vigor Marine (dock and sea trials technical representation for regular overhauls), TDI Technologies (Seaport-NXG minimum obligation support), GE Energy Power Conversion (T-AKE class automation tech refresh), and Atlantic Diving Supply (intrusion alarm systems).

SCI-reported invoicing across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $9.4 million over FY2022–FY2024: $2.7 million in FY2022 (5.4 FTEs), $3.4 million in FY2023 (4.4 FTEs), and $3.3 million in FY2024 (18.7 FTEs). On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ranged from a 10th percentile of roughly $81.67/hr to a median of $321.43/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $578/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor self-performed 100% of labor; three named subcontractors appear in the SCI sub-engagement records, suggesting subcontracting is selective rather than structural. The GBS Group's vessel-focused capability portfolio—machinery control system design and modernization, shipboard electrical systems repair and installation, integrated bridge systems, navigation and radar systems support, helm order assembly fabrication, thermographic electrical surveys, and ISEA/technical representative services for combat systems and mechanical engineering—reflects a specialized play in naval platform modernization and sustainment that skews heavily toward NAVSEA and MSC primes and task-order vehicles.

GBS provides technical services and products to commercial, government, and industrial clients across the Defense, Federal, Maritime, Telecom and Transportation sectors. Technology and consulting services for large, complex assets. Engineering services for complex controls, automation and software development. Custom software solutions for Health Monitoring and Passenger Information Systems in the transportation sector.