Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.

Open Geospatial Consortium Inc., doing business as OGC, is a tax-exempt, international nonprofit standards organization that provides geospatial data interoperability and standards development services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on membership, technical support, and research agreements. OGC operates predominantly as a prime (98% of recent awards) and does not compete under small-business set-asides; it delivers services on an unrestricted, full-and-open basis across 34 distinct federal customer agencies.

OGC's federal footprint centers on membership and standards-development services. The top customer by award count and potential value is the Department of Interior's U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (24 awards, $7.1 million combined potential value), followed by NASA's Shared Services Center (8 awards, $4.8 million) and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (7 awards, $2.8 million). NOAA, Defense Information Systems Agency, and the Department of Transportation round out the active set. Representative prime awards include a $2.265 million NASA Cooperative Agreement for "Exploitation of Scientific Results by Community Groups" (Feb 2023, ultimate completion Jan 2026); a $765 thousand DHS Science and Technology Directorate purchase order for strategic OGC membership services (Sep 2026, through Sep 2029); a $325 thousand NOAA principal membership purchase order (Aug 2025, through Jul 2030); and a $140 thousand USGS delivery order for decision-ready disaster-response information under the Disaster Pilot program (Sep 2023, completed Sep 2024). OGC also holds task-order positions under two USGS Indefinite Delivery Contracts: IDC ING13PC00041 with 8 task orders ($1.2 million combined potential value) and IDC 140G0119D0010 with 6 task orders ($1.2 million), both supporting geospatial standards development, research, data, tools, and technical services.

Activity has remained modest and recent awards are concentrated in the 2022–2023 window; the past five years show six awards in 2022, five in 2023, two in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026. Only one award (combined potential value $60 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. OGC's federal grant footprint spans NASA's Earth Science Data Systems and Shared Services Center programs; the organization received a $300 thousand NASA grant for collaborative multi-hazard disaster awareness for wildfires and drought (Sep 2022, completed Dec 2023) and holds a Cooperative Agreement with NASA through Sep 2026 for exploitation of scientific results. OGC operates as a sub-grantee under the University of Illinois's HDR Institute: Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (awards in Feb 2024, Aug 2025, and Dec 2025) and as a subcontractor to Raytheon Company on an Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development services contract (Jul 2026).

Service Contract Inventory data shows SCI-reportable invoicing of $2 million across FY2022–FY2025 ($748 thousand in FY2022, $750 thousand in FY2024, and $517 thousand in FY2025, with no invoicing in FY2023), delivered across a minimal federal FTE footprint (0.2 FTEs in FY2022, 0.1 in FY2024, 0.4 in FY2025). Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $1,159.66/hr to a median of $2,975.26/hr and a 90th percentile of $4,790.86/hr; OGC delivered work without named subcontractors across prime contracts. Headquarters is in Martinsville, Indiana, with performance locations distributed across federal customer sites including Woodbridge, Indiana; Silver Spring, Maryland; Suitland, Maryland; Wayland, Massachusetts; and Washington, DC.