Terrainworks, Inc.

Terrainworks, Inc., a Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Mt. Shasta, California, develops and licenses geospatial analysis software to federal natural resource agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor specializes in NetMap, a geospatial analysis toolkit operating within ESRI ArcGIS that models fish habitat, erosion risk, landslide potential, and wetland extent across landscapes. Terrainworks operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) on small-business procurement vehicles, competing on sole-source and full-and-open small-business designations without 8(a) or other formal SBA set-aside certifications.

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominates Terrainworks' customer base. Across all recent awards, USDA Forest Service accounts for 80% of award count (14 of the vendor's 20 total awards), split between the Alaska Region (R10, 5 awards, $172 thousand combined potential value), the Washington Office Acquisitions arm (4 awards, $290 thousand), the Pacific Northwest Region (R6, 3 awards, $35 thousand), and the Northern Region (R1, 2 awards, $20 thousand). The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration holds two awards worth $119 thousand combined. The top five customer entities account for 95% of the vendor's combined potential value, indicating extreme concentration on USDA Forest Service landscape-analysis procurement.

Representative capability work includes a $144 thousand purchase order from USDA Forest Service R9 (Alaska) awarded September 2023 for NetMap software and customized datasets supporting the Tongass National Forest CIO IT operations, extended through August 2026; a $90 thousand purchase order from USDA Forest Service awarded October 2026 for NetMap maintenance and support serving fish habitat mapping, erosion analysis, and landslide modeling on National Forest System lands in Alaska, running through September 2027; and a $119 thousand combined award portfolio from NOAA supporting wetland mapping and estuarine analysis. All USDA purchases reflect sole-source procurement tied to Terrainworks' exclusive ownership of the underlying NetMap intellectual property, models, and computer code. The vendor also holds a National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator cooperative agreement awarded May 2025 (ultimate completion April 2028) for TEALWATERS, a wetland mapping and modeling platform combining remote sensing, geomorphology, hydrology, and machine learning to identify current and historical wetlands, quantify their benefits, and model restoration scenarios for water access and community resilience.

Activity has remained sparse over the past five years — one award per year from 2021 through 2023, then a two-year gap until a single 2025 award and the October 2026 Forest Service purchase order. Two awards (combined potential value $91 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The Service Contract Inventory dataset shows minimal SCI-reportable activity — seven sub-records across FY2022 through FY2025 representing 0.3 to 0.6 FTEs — indicating that Terrainworks' federal engagement occurs primarily through direct software sales and licensing transactions below or outside the SCI reporting threshold rather than through billable service contracts.