The Economist Intelligence Unit, NA, Incorporated

The Economist Intelligence Unit, NA, Incorporated, a subsidiary of The Economist Newspaper Limited (London), operates as a prime contractor providing subscription access to economic intelligence, country analysis, and macroeconomic forecasting databases and publications to federal agencies. The vendor competes on full-and-open basis with no small business set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's federal capability centers on providing commercial off-the-shelf economic intelligence products: subscriptions to Economist.com, The Economist Intelligence Unit database (covering country reports, risk assessments, macroeconomic forecasts, and financial indicators), and The Economist magazine. Recent representative work includes a $1.26 million education services research and development delivery order from the Department of Education's Office of the Secretary (exercising option year four, running through August 2027), a $503,966 purchase order from the Department of the Treasury's Office of Administration for an EIU Viewpoint and Economist.com site license (through September 2027), and a $418,880 sole-source purchase order from the International Trade Commission for enterprise-wide access to Country Reports, Access China, Market Indicators & Forecasts, and Country Commerce products (running through August 2025). The vendor also holds a $15 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract through the Library of Congress FEDLINK program (through December 2026) that enables federal agencies to procure electronic information resources at standardized rates — two delivery orders have executed against this parent contract to date, including a $66,558 order from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (March 2026) and a $52,137 order from the International Development Finance Corporation (October 2025).

Customer concentration is diffuse but anchored by intelligence, trade, and diplomatic agencies. The top five customers by award count represent 47% of awards, led by the Naval Education and Training Command (23 awards, $205 thousand combined potential value) and the State Department Bureau of Administration (14 awards, $1.7 million). By potential value, however, the Library of Congress dominates at $16 million combined potential value across three awards, followed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation ($3.6 million across nine awards), the International Trade Commission ($2 million across twelve awards), and the Commerce Department's Office of the Secretary ($1.8 million). This divergence reflects the Library of Congress FEDLINK contract's large ceiling versus the Navy's numerous smaller subscription renewals. The Defense Intelligence Agency carries fourteen awards in the portfolio but no dollar value is specified in the source.

The vendor places work under four named Indefinite Delivery Contracts: LC03310319D0022 (15 task orders, $2.7 million combined potential value), LC14C7104 (13 task orders, $2.1 million), LC09D7055 (6 task orders, $579 thousand), and LC03310324D0015 (2 task orders, $119 thousand). Awards are categorized across All Other Information Services (38 awards), Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals (21 awards), and Newspaper Publishers (18 awards) by NAICS; the Newspapers And Periodicals PSC code covers 57 awards, with IT and Telecom web-based subscription services accounting for 17 more.

Activity trajectory shows material contraction. The vendor won nine awards in 2022, declining to two in 2023, three in 2024, and one each in 2025 and 2026. Combined potential value across all 152 awards is $39.7 million with $16.8 million obligated (42% draw). Four awards totaling $2.4 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure.

Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2022–FY2024 shows $766 thousand in invoiced revenue across eight SCI-reportable records (all prime, no subcontractor engagement). The vendor reported 298 FTEs across four prime records in FY2022, dropping to 195 FTEs across two records in FY2023, and zero FTEs in FY2024 despite two prime records remaining open. SCI-derived government-paid hourly rates are exceptionally low, with a median of $0.67 per hour, 10th percentile at $0.46 per hour, and 90th percentile at $1.08 per hour — a pattern consistent with subscription-based or per-license pricing structures reporting in SCI as labor-equivalent rather than reflecting actual personnel billing. The vendor operates 100% as a prime across its federal portfolio with zero subcontractor engagement and does not appear as a named subcontractor to other federal prime contractors in the source data.