Quality Positioning Services, Inc.

Quality Positioning Services, Inc. QPS Division (doing business as QPS), a foreign-owned for-profit software company headquartered in Newington, New Hampshire, sells geospatial processing software and marine oceanographic applications to federal agencies as a prime contractor across 211 awards since 2004, competing predominantly on full-and-open purchase orders rather than under set-aside vehicles. QPS is characterized by small-dollar, high-volume transactional work — the combined potential value across all 211 awards totals $5.6 million, with 87% obligated, averaging below $30,000 per award.

QPS's capability portfolio centers on three core proprietary software suites: Qimera (sonar data processing and seafloor mapping), Fledermaus (bathymetric data visualization and hydrographic surveying), and QINSy (marine navigation and positioning systems). Representative work includes a $532,098.68 ceiling-value purchase order from NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research for multi-beam and split-beam sonar data processing software running through August 2027; a $145,850 maintenance agreement modification with the U.S. Geological Survey's Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Center extending through September 2029; a $124,694.60 total small business set-aside for sonar data acquisition software with option-year authority through September 2026 (Office of Acquisitions and Grants); and recurring annual maintenance and license renewal orders from Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Office of Naval Research typically valued between $10,000 and $37,000. QPS also delivers on-site software training services (non-personal services contracts) and performs technical support work under subscription agreements.

Customer concentration is pronounced in maritime and oceanographic agencies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates the portfolio with 77 awards totaling $2.4 million in combined potential value (43% of total), followed by Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command with 40 awards and $1.8 million (32% of total), and the U.S. Geological Survey with 25 awards and $576 thousand (10% of total). These three customers account for 142 awards (73% of the total portfolio) and $4.8 million in combined potential value (86% of all dollars). The U.S. Department of the Navy in aggregate (including NMOC, NAVSEA, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Office of Naval Research) represents approximately 50 awards and $2 million. This concentration in civilian oceanographic and Navy maritime operations reflects the specialized, proprietary nature of QPS's software products and QPS's incumbent position across these agencies' annual renewal cycles.

The top parent vehicles carry modest ceilings: an Indefinite Delivery Contract N6230608D2004 with 5 task orders totaling $70 thousand and a Blanket Purchase Agreement N6230620A0003 with 4 task orders totaling $44 thousand. Most QPS awards are standalone purchase orders issued directly against agency operating budgets rather than drawn from government-wide acquisition vehicles. Category concentration by NAICS and PSC aligns with software licensing and maintenance: 130 awards are classified as Software Publishers (NAICS), 98 under Information Technology Software PSC, and 31 under IT and Telecom annual software maintenance service plans.

Award activity has declined in recent years — the portfolio shows 8 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 10 in 2024, and only 4 in 2025, with 1 award in 2026. Six awards (combined potential value $858 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling moderate recompete exposure. QPS carries a single documented sub-award, a Fledermaus software supply under Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. as prime (March 2024). The vendor's footprint is almost entirely prime-driven (210 of 211 awards), with marginal subcontract participation, and the vast majority of work is sole-source by regulatory authority (FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i)) because QPS is the sole owner and manufacturer of Qimera, Fledermaus, and QINSy. Performance occurs in Portsmouth, New Hampshire across all sampled contracts.

3D visualization software for processing and analysis of geo-spatial data.