Innovate! Inc.

Innovate! Inc., doing business as Innovate, is an SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, delivering geospatial information systems, IT professional services, cloud engineering, and environmental data processing to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) under full-and-open and small-business set-aside vehicles. The vendor competes across both WOSB-reserved and total small-business set-aside contracts, with no recurring limitation to WOSB-only competition; recent work spans GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) delivery orders, OASIS+ (Women-Owned Small Business and Total Small Business variants), the CIO-SP3 SB GWAC, and the USFS National Geospatial Services IDIQ.

Innovate's customer base is diffuse across civilian agencies with acute concentration in environmental and data-intensive missions. The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 anchors the award count at 22 awards ($13.5 million combined potential value), but the top-five customers by dollar value reveal structural concentration in large-ceiling IDVs: the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health NITAAC Office of Information Technology Acquisition holds two awards valued at $40 billion combined potential value (these are placeholder-ceiling vehicles, not realistic expenditure). Below the placeholder vehicles, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service accounts for six awards worth $180.1 million, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service for three awards worth $70.1 million, and the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Information for four awards worth $30.3 million. The concentration split highlights that while EPA drives award volume, GSA and USDA anchors substantive delivery dollars on named geospatial and fire-management systems.

Innovate holds positions on multiple GSA and agency IDVs. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (awarded December 2, 2021, $120 million ceiling through December 1, 2026) serves as the primary delivery vehicle, supporting 21 task orders worth $113.5 million combined potential value across IT professional services, earth observation solutions, and GIS services. Labor categories span applications programmers, IT analysts, business integration analysts, and senior architects, with hourly rates ranging from $34.98 to $414.12 and education requirements from high school through bachelor's degree; no security-cleared roles are offered. Recent MAS delivery orders include an $8.3 million GSA Global Services order (May 2026, completion May 8, 2029) for global satellite imagery acquisition and agro-meteorology time series data processing performed in Franconia, Virginia; a $7.37 million USDA order (July 2025, completion August 12, 2030) for operation and maintenance of the Integrated Reporting of Wildland Fire Information (IRWIN) System; a $3.3 million Department of the Interior order (May 2025, completion May 6, 2030, total small business set-aside) for wildland fire information systems operations and transition services; and a $2.39 million Office of the Chief Information Officer order (March 2025, total small business set-aside, completion March 22, 2030) for GIS professional support. Innovate also holds OASIS+ Total Small Business ($999,999,999,999 ceiling, awarded December 19, 2024, completion December 18, 2029) and OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business ($999,999,999,999 ceiling, awarded September 30, 2024, completion September 29, 2029) IDIQs spanning seven functional domains including Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Environmental Services, and Facilities. The USFS National Geospatial Services IDIQ (awarded April 2, 2024, $70 million ceiling through April 1, 2029, total small business set-aside) generated two delivery orders in FY2024: USFS R10 Shoreline Mapping ($57,460, completion August 21, 2025) and LIDAR Swath Overlap Analysis ($26,253, completion June 30, 2025). A CIO-SP3 SB delivery order (HAB126 C 3081, awarded September 29, 2021, $7.6 million ceiling through November 12, 2026, total small business set-aside) is subject to partial termination for convenience under the "Defend the Spend" initiative.

Innovate operates as a subcontractor to larger defense and civilian IT primes on select work. Named primes include General Dynamics Information Technology (emissions enforcement and compliance information system support for EPA), Science Applications International Corporation (DOI GeoPlatform cloud migration and GIS hosting, and USDA Forest Service Enterprise Data Warehouse support), and USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (technical support services). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, Innovate subcontracts roughly 12% of hours to a pool of 12 named subcontractors, indicating a capability-driven teaming model rather than heavy reliance on subs. However, FY2024 SCI data shows a shift: only six prime records and 40 sub records in that year, suggesting increasing sub-placement relative to prime activity in that fiscal-year slice, though the overall portfolio remains 91% prime.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts covered by the reporting threshold declined from $5.5 million in FY2022 (24.5 FTEs) to $3.7 million in FY2024 (12.1 FTEs), reflecting contraction in reportable prime-contract activity over the period. On those prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates median around $129/hr, with senior roles pricing through $199/hr at the 90th percentile. Award activity has been volatile: three awards in 2021, one in 2022, then a jump to eleven in 2024, with only two recorded in 2025 and two in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest — two awards (combined potential value $8.8 million) reaching ultimate completion — but the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention bridge contract (awarded November 5, 2021, $2.3 million, completion May 6, 2023) and several small USFS orders already completed suggest recent activity backlog may not yet be reflected in the forward-looking recompete window. The portfolio is grounded in geospatial data processing, wildland fire management systems, and EPA environmental compliance IT support, with execution concentrated at Franconia, Virginia and Washington, DC.

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.