Duncan-Parnell Inc.

Duncan-Parnell Inc., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based small business, supplies specialized geospatial equipment and unmanned aircraft systems to federal agencies as a prime contractor on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and holds two significant indefinite delivery contracts with the National Cemetery Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open on GSA and agency-specific schedules rather than through set-aside vehicles, though roughly half of recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations, reflecting its small business classification.

Duncan-Parnell's capability portfolio centers on Trimble-branded surveying, mapping, and positioning technologies — GNSS receivers, robotic total stations, scanning systems, and real-time kinetic (RTK) equipment — sold as an authorized Trimble reseller, alongside small unmanned aircraft systems and associated software licenses and maintenance. The vendor also supplies complementary geospatial analysis and visualization tools (eCognition licensing) and radio equipment for RTK operations. Representative prime awards include a $694,969 delivery order from the National Cemetery Administration for CDIS GPS equipment under its single-award IDC (ultimate completion May 31, 2027), a $716,182 delivery order from the Air Force for small unmanned aircraft systems, components, and training under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (awarded September 30, 2025, completed December 30, 2025), a $518,993 option-year delivery order from the National Cemetery Administration for CDIS GPS equipment subscriptions (awarded June 6, 2025), and a $301,766 delivery order from the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service for survey equipment replacement (awarded September 11, 2025).

Customer concentration reflects broad civilian federal agency reach. The top five customers by award count — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (24 awards, $989 thousand potential value), the U.S. Geological Survey (19 awards, $484 thousand), the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (17 awards, $1.5 million), the National Cemetery Administration (17 awards, $12.8 million), and the U.S. Marine Corps (16 awards, $165 thousand) — account for 28% of the 337 total awards. The top five customers by potential value tell a different story: the National Cemetery Administration dominates at $12.8 million (from 17 awards), followed by the Air Force Special Operations Command ($2.8 million from 6 awards), NRCS ($1.5 million from 17 awards), NOAA ($989 thousand from 24 awards), and Air Combat Command ($512 thousand from 6 awards), together representing 35% of combined potential value. The National Cemetery Administration is Duncan-Parnell's anchor customer by dollars, driven by its $5.26 million single-award IDC extending through May 31, 2029.

Duncan-Parnell holds three parent vehicle positions: the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (66 task orders, $19.7 million combined potential value), a $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded September 5, 2024, for small unmanned aircraft systems and Trimble geospatial equipment (running through December 16, 2026), and a $500 thousand BPA with the Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District for Reson equipment repair, calibration, and installation services (awarded November 10, 2023, ultimate completion November 14, 2024). The $5.26 million National Cemetery Administration single-award IDC, though not a vehicle in the traditional sense, generates multiple delivery orders and represents the most structured recurring revenue stream; the base year runs from June 11, 2024 to May 31, 2025, with four option years extending to May 31, 2029.

Activity has grown from 12 awards in 2022 to 27 in 2024, with 19 awards in 2025 and 4 in the first weeks of 2026. Only 3 prime awards (combined potential value $1.3 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling minimal near-term recompete pressure; the National Cemetery Administration and CBP vehicles carry substantially longer runways. Duncan-Parnell sustains a small subcontracting footprint (14 of 337 awards, 4% of the portfolio) primarily to larger systems integrators: Leidos (High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Geospatial Information O&TI contracts, geospatial data and equipment), AECOM Technical Services (Marine Corps installation geospatial data management support), Peraton (NSROC IV suborbital payload geospatial equipment), Atlantic Diving Supply (Trimble receivers and accessories), and Science Applications International Corporation (C5ISR systems engineering, geospatial components). The vendor has a single named subsidiary, AG Technologies, LLC.

Duncan-Parnell's award distribution by NAICS code reflects its core business: 142 awards cluster under Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, with secondary clusters in measuring and controlling device manufacturing (29 awards) and radio and wireless communications equipment manufacturing (22 awards). Across the PSC taxonomy, Drafting, Surveying, and Mapping Instruments anchor the portfolio (77 awards), followed by Navigational Instruments (22 awards) and Radio Navigation Equipment (13 awards). Over three and a half decades of federal contracting (first award March 15, 1983) and recent expansion into UAS procurement alongside its core Trimble reseller position have positioned Duncan-Parnell as a specialized supplier to civilian mapping and infrastructure agencies, with growing Department of Defense presence primarily through the Air Force and Marine Corps.