Gartner, Inc.

Gartner, Inc.'s Public Sector Division is a large, for-profit research and advisory company providing IT research subscriptions, leadership development programs, and strategic consulting services to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor on an extensive set of full-and-open federal vehicles, with no small business designations or set-asides across its prime footprint.

Gartner operates from Stamford, Connecticut, as the parent entity with six named subsidiaries including CEB Inc., AMR Research, Inc., Burton Group Incorporated, and Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC (foreign-owned). The company competes exclusively on full-and-open basis — its 5,169 recent prime awards represent 99% of all prime and sub awards in the source. The corporate structure anchors Gartner's federal service portfolio: subscription research platforms, advisory services for IT and finance leadership, consulting on technology modernization and digital transformation, and executive development programs. Across SCI-reportable contracts (a subset capturing service contracts above the $150,000 threshold), Gartner invoiced $212.1 million in federal services from FY2022 through FY2024, with approximately 134–166 FTEs delivered annually to the federal government. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ranged from $203/hr at the tenth percentile to $232/hr median to $232/hr at the ninety-percent mark, reflecting labor-category pricing from Associate Consultant ($168/hr) through Senior Director ($487/hr) on GSA schedules. The vendor performs work directly; sub-engagement across SCI-reportable prime contracts averaged zero percent of total contractor hours.

Federal customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense. The top five customers by potential value account for 71% of combined potential value: Naval Sea Systems Command leads at $4.05 billion across 50 awards (the Seaport-NXG multiple-award IDIQ running through January 1, 2029); GSA Federal Acquisition Service at $2.24 billion across 87 awards (primarily via the Federal Supply Schedule and Multiple Award Schedule vehicles); Naval Information Warfare Systems Command at $512.4 million across 111 awards; Defense Information Systems Agency at $73.6 million across 108 awards; and NASA Shared Services Center at $59.5 million across 146 awards. By award count, the Army leads at 147 awards ($17.4 million combined potential value), followed by NASA Shared Services Center (146 awards), the Navy (144 awards, $797 thousand combined potential value), the Air Force (144 awards, $56.4 million), and the Marine Corps (123 awards, $39 million). The concentration split signals Gartner's strength in defense IT research through the Seaport-NXG vehicle—massive dollars anchored in a single IDIQ—while civilian agency work spreads across multiple smaller task orders.

Gartner's vehicle position anchors on three primary mechanisms: the $4 billion Seaport-NXG multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) through January 1, 2029, from which numerous Navy SYSCOM partners (NAVAIR, NAVWAR, NAVFAC, NAVSUP, ONR, USMC) issue calls; a $7 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with NASA through March 31, 2028; and the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), under which Gartner holds standing via Federal Supply Schedule GS35F5014H (2,170 task orders, $622.8 million combined potential value) and the broader IT Schedule 70 (610 task orders, $419 million). The MAS vehicle alone generates $1.65 billion across 1,308 task orders. Additional prime vehicles include the Library of Congress FEDLINK IDIQ and agency-specific BPAs with individual departments. Total activity spans 5,242 awards with a combined potential value of $9.72 billion; 18% of that ($1.76 billion) has been obligated to date. Task orders trend downward: 255 awards in FY2022, 275 in FY2023, 301 in FY2024, but only 103 in FY2025 and 46 in FY2026 year-to-date through early August. This deceleration likely reflects timing and award pace variability rather than market loss. One hundred nineteen awards (combined potential value $139.9 million) reach completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure.

Representative prime contract work reflects Gartner's core offerings. A $9.124 million FY2025 delivery order from the Department of Defense's Program Executive Officer for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors procured subscription licenses in IT, human resources, and communications for executive-level research access under the MAS. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded a $232,256 delivery order on July 1, 2026, for Gartner for Finance Leaders subscription services. The Smithsonian Office of the CIO placed a $363,853 annual research subscription order in May 2026. The Department of Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget issued a $510,710 delivery order for Gartner subscription supporting the DOI Office of Financial Management. The Army Materiel Command issued a $977,798 BPA call on February 27, 2026, for AMC G3 Gartner license subscription. The National Library of Medicine awarded an exceptional $9.174 million seated-subscriptions-and-consulting-support delivery order in August 2025, representing one of the largest individual task orders in the award history. The Defense Health Agency, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center, and Export-Import Bank round out the civilian and defense agencies Gartner regularly serves, with award values ranging from $36,000 to over $7.5 million per task order.

Gartner's sub-award footprint is minimal (1% of total awards, 73 sub-awards) but strategically positioned. The vendor subcontracts to large defense and national-security integrators, not the reverse. Named primes Gartner subs under include Triad National Security, LLC (for Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operation contracts providing Gartner advisory-service licenses and executive-consulting packages); Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC (for Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program support); Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC (for National Security Campus management and operation, providing subscription services); HII Mission Technologies Corp (providing technology-integrated services to NSIN); Salient Crgt, Inc. (for EPA Enterprise Support Services); and Lintech-Pragmatics JV LLC (for PEO STRI CIO IT support services). Sub-award work mirrors prime deliverables—research subscriptions, IT professional services, and advisory licenses—indicating Gartner plugs into larger integrator scopes that require external research and advisory capability.

Gartner received two federal grant sub-awards as a sub-recipient from the South Carolina Department of Employment & Workforce under the SC Works Shared Case Management System (CFDA number not provided in source; awards dated June 30, 2024). These represent minimal grant activity and sit outside the core contract portfolio.

The top NAICS categories are 541512 (Other Computer Related Services, 4,013 awards), 920200 (Libraries and Archives, 177 awards), 519190 (All Other Information Services, 170 awards), 732110 (Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling, 113 awards), and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, 94 awards). Principal Service Code concentration centers on IT and Telecom Web-Based Subscription (1,023 awards), followed by IT and Telecom Other (591 awards), Information Technology Software (367 awards), Support Professional Other (335 awards), and Support Professional Program Management/Support (241 awards). These category concentrations confirm Gartner's core business: subscription research platforms and professional advisory services delivered via digital channels to federal IT and financial leadership.