Blue Marble Group Inc.

Blue Marble Group Inc., doing business as Blue Marble Geographics, is a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Hallowell, Maine that develops and licenses geographic information system (GIS) software to federal agencies as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards). The vendor operates predominantly in full-and-open competition — none of its recent awards carry set-aside designations — and competes across civilian and defense customer bases through direct licensing, software maintenance and support contracts, and training delivery.

Blue Marble's core offering is Global Mapper, a GIS software platform used for geospatial analysis, remotely sensed data exploitation, and automated feature extraction. The vendor also distributes the Global Mapper SDK for integration into third-party applications and provides associated training and professional services. Recent prime awards include a $734,158 Global Mapper Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) renewal with the Office of the Chief Information Officer (Department of the Interior) through April 2027, a $200,726 sole-source Global Mapper software license award from the Department of the Army through July 2026, a $161,000 instructor-led training contract with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) through September 2025, and a $129,600 OSMRE vendor training contract (Global Mapper) through September 2026. Smaller awards include $76,807 for Global Mapper SDK distribution licensing and maintenance with the Department of Transportation (through September 2028), recurring $6,150–$12,130 Global Mapper license and maintenance orders from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and $39,911 for Global Mapper software licensing to Air Combat Command (RADES program) through May 2027.

Customer concentration is diffuse across 27 distinct agencies, with the top five customers accounting for 49% of award count. The Department of the Interior's Chief Information Officer dominates by dollars — four awards worth $2.5 million combined potential value — largely driven by the Global Mapper ELA. OSMRE ranks second in both volume (nine awards) and dollars ($571 thousand), anchoring the vendor's civilian training and licensing footprint. NOAA (11 awards, $87 thousand) leads by award count but carries smaller per-award values. The Department of the Army, the Department of the Transportation, and the Marine Corps round out the active customer set. The vendor places task orders under GSA's Information Technology Schedule 70 (seven orders, $57 thousand combined value) and holds seats on several Army indefinite delivery contracts.

Activity has remained relatively flat year over year — four to six awards annually from 2022 through 2025 — with a total footprint of 79 awards and combined potential value of $4.6 million. Five awards (combined potential value $923 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete risk. Blue Marble operates predominantly as a prime on software licensing and training work; five subcontract awards visible in the source show the vendor delivering Global Mapper software and maintenance under larger primes including Leidos (high-resolution three-dimensional geospatial information operations and technology integration program), BAE Systems (Instrumentation Range Support Program III), and Lockheed Martin (additional scope). SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $534 thousand across FY2023–FY2024, with government-paid hourly rates running from a 10th percentile of approximately $3,484/hr to a 90th percentile of approximately $20,103/hr, reflecting a mix of software licensing (fixed prices) and training labor (hourly rates). The vendor self-performs substantially all work; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor hours share zero percent of total contractor hours.