IHS Global Inc.

IHS Global Inc., doing business as I.h.s. Corp and a subsidiary of S&P Global, operates as a for-profit prime contractor delivering proprietary data subscriptions, market intelligence platforms, specialized software, and analytics services to federal agencies across civilian and defense sectors. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements without reliance on set-aside categories, placing 4,161 prime awards (100% of federal work in the source) across 327 customer agencies.

IHS Global's capability portfolio centers on subscription-based intelligence and data products grounded in concrete named work across energy, maritime, trade, and economic domains. Representative examples include a $14.48 million S&P Oil and Gas Database subscription with the U.S. Geological Survey (awarded May 2025, ultimate completion May 2030), a $3.01 million maritime vessel tracking and trade analysis data services contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for waterborne commerce statistics (awarded August 2025, completion August 2030), and a $7.43 million Bureau of Land Management oil and gas well database and software services contract for reservoir analysis supporting over 10,000 federal and Indian leases nationally (awarded September 2022, completion September 2026). Additional concrete work spans a $1.6 million drilling data subscription for the Department of the Interior's Office of Trust Services (awarded June 2025), a $1.12 million Department of State Janes FEDLINK subscription for defense and security analysis (awarded September 2023), and a $1.73 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command maritime vessel data subscription for commercial shipping licenses covering vessel details and vessel tracking (awarded September 2022). The vendor also delivers software maintenance (Kingdom Suite, Petra, 2D/3DPAK platforms for geophysical analysis), pricing and purchasing intelligence subscriptions, chemical economics data, trade analytics suites, and economic forecasting databases, with delivery across energy, defense, maritime, geospatial, and civilian intelligence missions.

Customer concentration sits heavily with defense agencies. The Department of the Navy leads by award count (437 awards in the top-five ranking) and dominates by potential value through the Naval Sea Systems Command ($71 million, 298 awards) and Naval Air Warfare Center ($18 million, 92 awards). The Department of the Army ranks second by count (360 awards); a subordinate contracting command, Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal, anchors $60.7 million in potential value across 28 awards. The Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey carries $59.9 million across 57 awards. The top five customers by award count account for 34% of recent awards; the top five by potential value account for 18%, reflecting a long tail of smaller subscription and software orders distributed across civilian and defense agencies. The two rankings diverge: NAVSEA's concentration by dollar value contrasts with the Navy's broader but smaller-dollar footprint by count, signaling both large platform contracts and many smaller task orders.

IHS Global sits on multiple federal supply schedules and indefinite delivery vehicles. The Federal Supply Schedule GS02F0402D carries the heaviest use (1,167 task orders, $43.5 million combined potential value), followed by the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule (124 task orders, $30.5 million). The Library of Congress FEDLINK electronic resources indefinite delivery contract (single-award, $24 million) and a $2.5 million geoscience subsurface interpretation software cloud contract (GSIS-C) with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management represent substantial civilian agency vehicles. A $26.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Other Transaction multiple-award IDV (awarded March 2024) enables flexible ordering of diverse data, analytics, and software solutions. A $3.8 million Department of Energy Chief Information Officer blanket purchase agreement supports CERAWEEK energy forum logistics and participation through March 2028.

Award activity has contracted sharply. The vendor received 79 awards in 2022, 59 in 2023, 42 in 2024, 26 in 2025, and 15 in the first six months of 2026, indicating a year-over-year decline. Fifty-six awards (combined potential value $29.1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue (federal services contracts above the $150,000 threshold) totaled $10.1 million across FY2022–FY2024, split as $1.4 million in FY2022, $6.9 million in FY2023, and $1.7 million in FY2024. These figures represent a subset of the vendor's federal service contract activity and do not capture goods, micro-purchases, or the vendor's full enterprise revenue. The SCI dataset shows roughly 4.5 FTEs delivered in FY2022, 7.2 FTEs in FY2023, and 4.1 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-reportable prime contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from $20.42/hr at the tenth percentile to a median of $196.40/hr and $254.73/hr at the ninetieth percentile, reflecting a mix of data delivery and high-value technical consulting roles. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for an average 2% of total contractor hours, indicating IHS Global delivers most work through its own staff with minimal sub-engagement on service contracts.

IHS Global operates as a prime contractor on nearly all recent awards (100% prime by count in the source data), with two named sub-awards cited: a Guidehouse Inc. prime on DARPA enterprise support services involving pricing and purchasing analysis (October 2024), and an HX5 LLC prime on Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory software subscription work (May 2024). The vendor's corporate structure includes three named subsidiaries: Premier Data Services Inc., IHS Global LIMITED, and R.L. Polk & Co., all for-profit entities. IHS Global maintains principal operations in Englewood, Colorado, with performance at multiple locations including Greenwood Village, Colorado; Windsor Mill and Milford Mill, Maryland; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and subordinate sites worldwide aligned with customer geography (John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi; Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; and other federal facilities). The vendor was registered in SAM.gov since 2002, reflecting an established federal contracting presence under parent S&P Global ownership.