GRA Inc.

GRA Inc., doing business as Gellman Research Associates, operates as a prime contractor providing aviation economics consulting, benefit-cost modeling, and policy analysis services to civilian federal agencies, with 100% of its prime award footprint competing without small business set-asides. The firm is a for-profit entity headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with over forty years of federal contracting history specializing in economic analysis, regulatory support, forecasting, and strategic advisory services for the transportation sector.

Customer concentration is severe and singular. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters accounts for 98 awards and $2.1 billion in combined potential value—roughly 93% of GRA's total potential-value base—and dominates both volume and dollar rankings across the vendor's portfolio. The FAA's Aeronautical Center (9 awards, $59.2 million), FAA's Southwestern Region (23 awards, $14.9 million), and subordinate units account for approximately 162 of the vendor's 201 total awards. The Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration holds 5 awards valued at $4.2 million. This concentration reflects GRA's embedded posture as the FAA's incumbent economic consulting firm, with the agency's Headquarters organization anchoring the relationship through multiple vehicle mechanisms.

The prime vehicle architecture centers on indefinite delivery contracts. GRA holds or has recently held five named IDIQs: DTFAWA15D00046 (64 task orders, $11.6 million combined potential value), DTFAWA10D00017 (29 task orders, $5.5 million), 693KA924D00003 (16 task orders, $5.5 million), DTFAAC08D00010 (12 task orders, $107.2 million), and a current $8.75 million single-award IDIQ awarded November 30, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of November 29, 2026. GRA also places work on the GSA Federal Supply Schedule (GS10F0214J), with 14 task orders valued at $8.8 million. The $8.75 million FAA Southwestern Region IDIQ, awarded without set-aside, funds economic consulting services for regulatory analysis and policy support; since November 2023, GRA has executed ten delivery orders under this vehicle totaling approximately $4.7 million through July 2025, encompassing benefit-cost modeling for airport surface systems and lighting analysis ($412.5 thousand), cost allocation and revenue estimation model updates ($548.7 thousand), commercial space launch forecasting ($96.9 thousand and $109.3 thousand), airport slot allocation framework R&D support ($303.5 thousand), white papers on benefit-cost analysis methodology ($53.6 thousand), and project planning with recurring progress reporting ($1.9 million).

Work spans administrative management and general management consulting services (148 awards across the prime portfolio) and custom computer programming services (13 awards), with delivery orders addressing FAA policy analysis, airport revenue and resource allocation, air traffic cost modeling, aviation forecasting, unmanned aircraft systems policy, and regulatory decision support. Representative recent awards include a $274.4 thousand delivery order from the FAA Southwestern Region issued September 14, 2026, for cost allocation and revenue estimation model (CAREM) development and expansion running through September 27, 2027; a $359.9 thousand order (July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027) for legislative policy and financial analysis support; a $489.5 thousand order (September 11, 2024, through September 30, 2027) for APS-1 review and rationalization strategy; and a $1.9 million order (August 1, 2024, through November 29, 2025) for project planning and recurring progress reporting. GRA also holds a $199.4 thousand definitive contract with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division for expert witness services in aviation economics, reflecting secondary customer diversification in legal support.

Activity has contracted materially in recent years. GRA recorded 6 awards in 2022, 8 in 2023, 9 in 2024, only 2 in 2025, and 5 through September 2026—a decline from earlier cycles. Nine awards with combined potential value of $44.4 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete exposure. Combined potential value across all 201 awards stands at $2.27 billion, but obligated dollars total only $90 million (4% of potential value), reflecting the large ceiling values on the underlying IDIQs and the vendor's position as the incumbent FAA economic consulting resource. The vendor does not subcontract; all 201 awards are prime work.

GRA provides economic research and consulting services to the transporation industry including aviation policy and planning, aviation safety, cost-benefit analysis, financial services, economic impact studies and privatization.