Data Recognition Corporation

Data Recognition Corporation, based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, is a for-profit educational assessment and survey services vendor that operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal contracts across civilian and defense agencies, with no set-aside designations across its footprint. DRC specializes in survey design, administration, data analysis, and educational testing services, delivering workforce assessment, organizational climate evaluation, and personnel readiness programs primarily for the Department of Defense.

DRC's customer base is heavily concentrated with the Defense Human Resources Activity, which accounts for 155 awards (80% of recent awards) worth $207.6 million in combined potential value. This concentration reflects DRC's entrenchment in DHRA's survey portfolio—the Defense Organizational Climate Survey (DEOCS), Status of Forces surveys, Gender Relations surveys, and Spouse and Family Issues surveys represent the bulk of its workload. Secondary customers include the Department of the Navy (27 awards), the Department of Defense Education Activity (9 awards, $25.8 million), the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the Department of Labor Office of Job Corps, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. GSA Federal Acquisition Service places three awards worth $40.4 million combined—likely related to vehicle administration rather than operational program work.

DRC holds a $73.74 million single-award IDIQ with DHRA for survey operational support services through September 2029, awarded September 13, 2024, which anchors most of its current pipeline. Five delivery orders have been issued under this vehicle in the past year, including a $12.1 million delivery order for 2029 OPA DCP Operations Support (July 2026, completing July 2030), a $995 thousand order for FY25 services covering Western Enterprise Surveys Manager, Western Executive Search Consortium, Standard Alternative Evaluation System, and Spouse and Veterans Services initiatives (August 2025, completing February 2027), and a $813.9 thousand order for the Operations Status of Forces Active Duty Reserve Survey (June 2025, completing March 2027). Across DHRA's older single-award IDIQs—particularly contract 47QFPA19D0001—DRC has issued 45 task orders worth $28 million. DRC also holds a $2 billion multiple-award IDIQ under the Department of Education's Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) vehicle, which extends through February 2028, though recent ordering volume under PRESTO is limited. A single-award contract with the Department of Education for adult achievement testing services (completed September 2023) carried a $1.49 million ceiling.

Recent representative work includes a $3.28 million definitive contract from the Department of Health and Human Services for Testing for Adult Basic Education (TABE) software services (September 2024, completing September 2029, performed in Washington, DC), a $3.9 thousand purchase order from the Indian Health Service for Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) inpatient survey data collection (March 2024, completing March 2029, performed in Red Lake, Minnesota), and a $74.1 thousand purchase order from the Department of the Army for TABE 11 & 12 online test tokens (July 2023, completing July 2024). DRC also delivers TABE testing services to the Defense Human Resources Activity on a smaller scale—a $29.8 thousand purchase order in August 2024. These awards demonstrate capability spanning large-scale personnel surveys, standardized educational testing platforms, and healthcare assessment services.

Activity has declined measurably—from ten awards in 2022 to one in 2026 year-to-date—though the dollar magnitude of DRC's most recent awards has remained substantial. The recompete cliff shows only three awards completing in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $5.2 million, indicating that most of DRC's current pipeline extends beyond two years. DRC's NAICS profile is anchored in Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (127 awards), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (35 awards), and Educational Support Services (16 awards), with subordinate exposure in Computer Systems Design Services (12 awards) and Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (12 awards). PSC concentration tracks this capability mix: Special Studies/Analysis—Organization/Administrative/Personnel (60 awards), Support—Professional: Market Research/Public Opinion (30 awards), and R&D—General Science/Technology: Social Sciences (24 awards) dominate.

DRC maintains a named subsidiary, Reda Intl Incorporated, though no subsidiary-specific award activity is documented in the source. As of the most recent data, DRC has obligated $100 million against $2.3 billion in combined potential value across 259 total awards (4% obligation rate), reflecting the typical timing lag in delivery-order execution across multi-year IDIQs. DRC operates from headquarters in Maple Grove with documented places of performance in Alexandria, Virginia (primary DHRA work), Osseo, Minnesota, and Seaside, California.