Innovate! Inc.

Innovate! Inc., doing business as Innovate, is an SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business based in Alexandria, Virginia, that delivers geospatial information systems, IT professional services, cloud engineering, and environmental data processing to civilian federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with work concentrated on GSA Schedules, OASIS+ IDIQs, and agency-specific indefinite-delivery vehicles. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides—Total Small Business and Women-Owned Small Business designations recur across most of its prime footprint.

Innovate's customer concentration is fragmented by customer count but heavily anchored by dollar value in vehicle-holder relationships. The Environmental Protection Agency accounts for 41 awards across multiple regional and office-level funding sources (combined potential value $37.9 million), with GSA Federal Acquisition Service placing six awards worth $180.1 million combined. The top five customer entities by potential value—dominated by Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health ($40 billion, reflecting placeholder-ceiling vehicles) and Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($3.96 billion)—represent 69% of combined potential value, while EPA Region 9 and GSA FAS anchor the award-count rankings at lower individual deal sizes.

The vendor holds seats on multiple governmentwide vehicles: a $120 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule (23 task orders, $122.6 million combined potential value) emphasizing IT professional services, earth observation, geographic information systems, and cloud solutions; OASIS+ Total Small Business (December 2024–December 2029, no specified ceiling) and OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business (September 2024–September 2029, no specified ceiling) IDIQs covering seven functional domains including Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, and Environmental Services; a SEWP VI GWAC awarded November 2026 (no specified ceiling) for communication and audio-visual IT solutions; and a $70 million U.S. Forest Service National Geospatial Services IDIQ (April 2024–April 2029) supporting geospatial work across the National Forest System and State and Private Forestry. Representative task-order work under these vehicles includes a $9.09 million Total Small Business delivery order from GSA for business services and portfolio management (November 2026–May 2032, Franconia, Virginia); an $8.26 million delivery order for global satellite imagery acquisition and agro-meteorology time series data processing (May 2026–May 2029, no set-aside); a $7.35 million delivery order from the Office of the Chief Information Officer for Integrated Reporting of Wildland Fire Information (IRWIN) System operations (July 2025–August 2030); and a $1.45 million definitive contract from the Department of the Interior for IRWIN system operation, maintenance, and enhancement (August 2024–August 2025).

Award activity shows volatility over the past five years—three in 2021, one in 2022, eleven in 2024, four in 2025, and four in 2026—with only one award (combined potential value $7.6 million) facing completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete pressure. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Innovate invoiced $17.4 million over FY2022–FY2025, with FY2022 peak invoicing of $5.5 million across 24.5 FTEs declining to $3.5 million across 8.3 FTEs in FY2025. Government-paid hourly rates on prime contracts cluster around a median of $148.01 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $80.45 per hour and 90th percentile at $201.36 per hour. GSA Schedule labor categories span 119 rates ranging from $34.98 per hour (Computer Tech I) to $414.12 per hour (Cloud Program Manager IV), with education requirements from high school through bachelor's and no security-cleared roles offered.

Innovate operates predominantly as a prime contractor but engages subcontractors selectively—across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs account for an average of 18% of contractor hours, with 20 named subcontractors. Sub-award work includes labor contributions to General Dynamics Information Technology on EPA Clean Air Act emissions compliance systems and environmental management infrastructure (February–August 2024), support to Science Applications International Corporation on Department of Interior GeoPlatform GIS hosting, migration, and architecture services (August 2024, February 2024), and technical support services to the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (April 2026). The vendor's core capability portfolio—grounded in geospatial systems, wildland fire information management, environmental compliance IT, cloud computing, and earth observation—targets civilian agencies with data-intensive and infrastructure-modernization missions, with no direct Department of Defense prime presence.

Innovate! Inc. is a nationally recognized, SBA-certified Woman-Owned Small Business with 20+ years delivering exceptional IT, GIS, and cloud solutions across federal, state, local, tribal, and private sectors. An Esri Gold Partner (1 of 5 WOSB globally), AWS Select Tier, and Salesforce Ridge Partner, we deliver full-stack, integrated IT/GIS and program support services to help clients manage and visualize data, modernize systems, and improve mission outcomes. Our capabilities include AI/ML integration, cloud migration, human-centered design, architecture strategy/assessment, data collection/analysis/standards, application development, testing, release management, change management, training, and adoption. We are ISO 9001, 20000, and 27001 certified and appraised at CMMI Level 3 for services, with expertise in wildfire management, geospatial integration, broadband mapping, geointelligence, indoor mapping, grants management, permitting workflows, and water/wastewater AI/ML modeling.