Quality Positioning Services, Inc.

Quality Positioning Services, Inc. (QPS Division, doing business as QPS), a foreign-owned, for-profit software design company headquartered in Newington, New Hampshire, supplies specialized geospatial processing software for hydrographic surveying, bathymetric data processing, sonar data analysis, and oceanographic research as a prime contractor exclusively in full-and-open federal procurements—no set-aside activity—across 213 awards spanning more than two decades (since 2004) with $5.6 million in combined potential value.

QPS's customer base is heavily concentrated in maritime and oceanographic agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 73% of all awards, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) anchoring the portfolio at 78 awards worth $2.5 million—more than 44% of total potential value—followed by the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (41 awards, $1.8 million), the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (25 awards, $574 thousand), the Army Corps of Engineers (7 awards, $41 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command (5 awards, $88 thousand). NOAA and NMOC dominate both volume and dollars; the rankings track closely, indicating stable customer concentration rather than a tension between many small orders and fewer large ones.

QPS's core product suite comprises Fledermaus (seafloor mapping and data visualization), Qimera (sonar data processing for multi-beam and split-beam systems), QINSy (marine navigation and positioning), and related geospatial processing tools delivered as perpetual or subscription licenses, annual maintenance renewals, and technical support. Representative recent prime awards include a $435,357 purchase order from NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (awarded September 2023, completion August 2027) for Qimera sonar data processing software supporting oceanographic expeditions; a $158,842 purchase order from NOAA (August 2026, completion September 2027) for six new Fledermaus and Qimera software licenses plus maintenance for 94 existing QPS licenses across NOAA's hydrographic survey fleet; and a $145,850 purchase order modification from the U.S. Geological Survey (September 2024, completion September 2029) to extend a maintenance agreement for Fledermaus and Qimera at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal & Marine Center. Award values range from roughly $10 thousand to $435 thousand, with most licensing and maintenance renewals clustering in the $15 thousand to $100 thousand range.

QPS holds three named parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N6230608D2004) with five task orders worth $70 thousand, a Blanket Purchase Agreement (N6230620A0003) with four task orders worth $44 thousand, and a Special Operations Equipment—Tailored Logistics Support vehicle with one task order. These vehicles are minor in the overall footprint, suggesting most of QPS's business flows through direct purchase orders rather than IDIQs or standing agreements.

Activity has declined meaningfully in the past two years. The vendor recorded eight awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, ten in 2024, then dropped to four in 2025 and three in 2026 year-to-date. Over the next twenty-four months, six awards with combined potential value of $810 thousand reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure—a modest recompete cliff relative to the overall portfolio. QPS operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (100% of awards); only one sub-award appears in the source data (a Fledermaus license delivery to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc., in March 2024), indicating minimal subcontracting activity and no named teaming relationships. The vendor competes exclusively full-and-open with no set-aside categories applied across the entire recent award footprint, despite qualifying as a small business on some procurements (notably a Total Small Business designation on a $123,511 software-for-sonar-data-acquisition purchase order in September 2023 and a Total Small Business designation on a $77,498 NOAA maintenance renewal in October 2023). NAICS classification 513210 (Software Publishers) and PSC code 7A21-P (Business Application Software) dominate the award taxonomy, representing 130 of 213 awards and 98 PSC-code awards respectively, confirming QPS's positioning as a software-licensing and software-as-a-service provider rather than a systems integrator or professional-services firm. All awards carry firm-fixed-price or subscription pricing; the source notes QPS maintains an established federal contracting history since 2004 registration in SAM.gov and justifies sole-source awards under FAR 6.103-1 as the sole owner and distributor of its proprietary software suite.

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