Drivendata, LLC

Drivendata, Inc., a Denver-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, designs and operates crowdsourcing and data science competition platforms for NASA and federal research agencies as a prime contractor under full-and-open competitive vehicles, with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Drivendata specializes in open innovation services: designing challenge competitions, building machine learning benchmarking platforms, and managing crowdsourced algorithmic solution development for complex research and operational problems. The vendor operates two active parent vehicles — NASA Open Innovation Services 2 (NOIS2), a $175 million multiple-award IDIQ through which Drivendata placed 18 task orders worth $5.4 million combined potential value, and NASA Open Innovation Services 3 (NOIS3), a $474.988 million multiple-award GWAC (awarded to Drivendata June 5, 2025, effective through May 31, 2027) under which the vendor has received 3 task orders totaling $374 thousand in combined potential value. Recent representative work includes a $726,850 delivery order (awarded May 24, 2023, under NOIS2) for machine learning algorithm development supporting early prediction of Alzheimer's disease; a $750,000 delivery order (September 14, 2023, NOIS2) for the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo crowdsourcing competition; a $223,250 delivery order (September 23, 2025, NOIS3) for real-time embedded systems security campaign development supporting NASA's High Performance Super Computing program; and a $150,000 delivery order (March 13, 2026, NOIS3) for the Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics benchmark competition platform and challenge design, due November 30, 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme. NASA's Johnson Space Center accounts for 23 of 24 total awards (100% of combined potential value at $655.7 million), with the sole exception being a $256,000 NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) SBIR Phase I grant award (August 1, 2021, completion September 30, 2023) for research on open machine learning competitions using private data with privacy preservation. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime — zero subcontract engagements appear in the source data. Recompete risk in the next twenty-four months centers on two awards with combined potential value of $373 thousand reaching ultimate completion. Award activity shows volatility: four awards in 2022, six in 2023, one in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value masks obligated dollars — only $6 million (1% of combined potential value) has been obligated to date, indicating that the $474.988 million NOIS3 GWAC ceiling represents a large available runway but no guaranteed flow. Primary NAICS classification is 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) under a $19.5 million small business size standard, with PSC coding split between Support-Professional (Other) and Special Studies/Analysis work.

Work with mission-driven clients to take advantage of capabilities in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence for their most pressing challenges. We do this through direct consulting or by running open online competitions where data scientists around the world compete to build the best algorithm for questions that matter to the world.