Cision US Inc.

Cision US Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit provider of media intelligence software and communications services headquartered in Chicago, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) across 154 distinct federal customer agencies, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The company delivers earned media platforms, press release distribution, media monitoring, news briefings, social media management, and media analytics capabilities to civilian federal agencies through direct contracts, blanket purchase agreements, and a General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule vehicle.

Cision's customer concentration is diffuse across the federal government, with the top five agencies by potential value—the Social Security Administration ($2.4 million across 5 awards), the Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration ($1.4 million across 9 awards), the Executive Office of the President White House Office ($969 thousand across 8 awards), the Federal Trade Commission ($642 thousand across 6 awards), and the Department of Transportation ($630 thousand across 5 awards)—accounting for only 12% of combined potential value. By award count, concentration is similar: the Marine Corps (20 awards, $200 thousand), the Internal Revenue Service (13 awards, $407 thousand), the Federal Communications Commission (11 awards, $62 thousand), the Smithsonian Institution (10 awards, $225 thousand), and the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director (10 awards, $383 thousand) represent 13% of all awards. The broadly distributed customer base reflects Cision's positioning as a commodity media-intelligence vendor serving headquarters and regional offices across civilian agencies rather than a concentrated defense or intelligence contractor.

Cision holds a $5 million General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule, awarded October 2025 through October 2030) offering nationwide access to Cision Communications Cloud, media monitoring, analytics, and press release distribution. The schedule carries three labor categories—Analyst, Project Consultant, and Analyst Manager—with hourly rates spanning $98.24 to $149.92, all at bachelor's or master's education levels with no security clearances offered. The company also operates under a $4 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Executive Office of the President (11316021A0006EOP) that has issued 18 task orders valued at $1.6 million combined to deliver news monitoring, daily briefings, news clips, transcripts, and analytics to the White House Office, Office of the Vice President, and Office of National Drug Control Policy through September 2026. Two Federal Supply Schedules (GS35F0781R and GS35F0668S) carry 52 and 37 task orders respectively, accounting for $875 thousand and $8.4 million in combined potential value.

Recent concrete work exemplifies Cision's core offering: a $1.22 million firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Drug Enforcement Administration (awarded September 2024, running through September 2029) for continued media monitoring, clipping services, daily news briefings, press release distribution, and analytics to support DEA media engagement strategy, which generated $192 thousand in FY2024 invoiced revenue across 0.6 FTEs at a derived government-paid rate of $167.17 per hour; a $611,592 purchase order from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (awarded March 2025, running through March 2030) for news release distribution to at least 3,000 media outlets, 24/7 media monitoring across 210 U.S. Designated Market Areas, and social media management with access to a database of at least 350,000 journalists; a $1.34 million time-and-materials contract from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (awarded April 2023, running through March 2028) for daily news briefings, media clipping services, analytics, and scoring to support approximately 4,000 OCC employee subscriptions, delivered from Cision's facility in Calverton, Maryland; a $3.12 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Environmental Protection Agency (awarded November 2021, running through November 2025) providing press release distribution, media contact tracking, and media analytics to EPA headquarters and 10 regional offices, processing up to 300,000 news stories annually; and an $8.1 million (ceiling) single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Executive Office of the President (awarded August 2021 through September 2026) that has issued multiple call orders ranging from $25,000 to $321,551 for news monitoring and media analysis services across EOP components.

Activity shows contraction year over year—20 awards in 2022 declining to 5 in 2026—with 13 awards (combined potential value $3.3 million) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. Service Contract Inventory data shows Cision self-performed its federal services work with zero subcontractor hours across FY2022–FY2024, delivering $1.6 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across 0.6 to 6.5 FTEs with median government-paid rates around $163.89 per hour and a range from $130.05 to $197.72 per hour. The vendor operates as a subsidiary of Icontact LLC, a for-profit entity held by the same parent. Cision competes across software publishers (85 awards), internet publishing and broadcasting (79 awards), information services (56 awards), and IT software and web-based subscription PSC codes (69 and 52 awards respectively), positioning itself as a standard media-intelligence SaaS vendor rather than a specialized or compliance-differentiated contractor.