The Sanborn Map Company, Inc.

The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. Corporate Office Division, doing business as Sanborn Map Co Inc., is a for-profit Colorado Springs–based geospatial solutions provider operating as a prime contractor (100% of awards) delivering aerial imagery acquisition, photogrammetric mapping, LiDAR data collection, GIS services, and geospatial data processing to civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations.

Sanborn anchors its federal footprint on two major vehicles: a $174.1 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Production and Conservation division for aerial imagery acquisition running through November 2026, and an $850 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for Geospatial Products and Services IV (GPSC4) established in August 2021. The GPSC4 vehicle dominates the portfolio by dollar value — 39 awards across USGS and subordinate agencies carry a combined potential value of $1.64 billion, or approximately 75% of the vendor's total award potential ($2.19 billion across 344 prime awards). The USDA BPA generates steady task-order volume; recent calls include a $1.78 million delivery order for Western Superior magnetic radiometric work (May 2026), $783 thousand for 2025 NAIP aerial imagery (April 2025), and a $375 thousand stewardship land imagery order (April 2026). Sanborn also holds seats on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and the Professional Services Schedule, which collectively account for 176 task orders ($252.4 million combined potential value) and 135 task orders ($33.6 million combined potential value) respectively. Recent GPSC4 delivery orders span diverse geography and application: $2.52 million for Southwest Virginia geospatial services (April 2025), $1.58 million for Sioux Falls region magnetic radiometric work (August 2024), $1.5 million for Nome, Alaska geospatial mapping (September 2025), and $1.18 million for Pecos-Animas New Mexico work (July 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Interior USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants accounts for 39 awards but $1.64 billion in combined potential value — a reflection of the GPSC4 vehicle's dominance. By award count, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R5–Pacific Southwest Region leads with 140 awards ($20.5 million combined potential value); the Bureau of Land Management National Office follows with 33 awards ($22.2 million); and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District St Louis holds 20 awards ($13.9 million). The top five customers by award count cover 69% of awards; by dollar value, the top five cover 94%, signaling that USGS dollars drive recompete exposure. Award activity has remained modest in recent years — four awards in 2026 (incomplete calendar year), six in 2025, ten in 2024, seven in 2023, and ten in 2022. Seventeen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $15.2 million, representing near-term recompete risk, though the GPSC4 and USDA BPA vehicles provide the baseline renewal pipeline.

Sanborn's service-contract activity as captured in the Service Contract Inventory (SCI) is sparse and historical: $7.9 million in SCI-reportable invoiced revenue across FY2022 alone, delivered by 23.4 federal FTEs on prime contracts, with zero reported invoicing in FY2023 and FY2024. This reflects the vendor's predominant business model as a delivery-order contractor under IDVs rather than as a direct federal services contractor subject to SCI reporting thresholds. On the labor categories where SCI data exist, median government-paid rates ran around $120.90 per hour, with the spectrum spanning GIS analysts at $64–$77 per hour to principal scientists and program managers at $239–$349 per hour. GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 69 categories across the same breadth — GIS Analyst I at $50.13 per hour (bachelor's, one year experience) through Principal Scientist at $349.55 per hour (PhD, ten years experience) — with no security-cleared roles. Sanborn does not sub to other primes and does not report named subcontractor engagement; the vendor is 100% prime and self-delivers across all awards.

Sanborn's subcontracting practice leverages specialized geospatial partners: Arrowhawk Imaging LLC, Keystone Aerial Surveys Inc., Kinetics Geospatial LLC (noted as an SBA-certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business on several GPSC4 tasks), Veridaas Corporation, Schonegg Inc., and Groundpoint Engineering PLLC are named across representative prime orders. These subs support aerial survey, LiDAR acquisition, photogrammetry, and specialized field operations on complex mapping initiatives. The corporate structure includes three named subsidiaries — Edcon-Prj Inc., Sanborn Solutions LLC, and Sanborn-Tetratech JV LLC — though the source does not specify their operational roles or capability specialization. Category concentration aligns with the award footprint: Environmental Consulting Services (166 awards), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (65 awards), and Surveying and Mapping Services excluding geophysical (49 awards) dominate the NAICS distribution, with IT and Telecom digitizing (136 awards) and Architect and Engineering services (53 and 46 awards respectively) anchoring the PSC side. All recent prime awards carry no set-aside designation, indicating Sanborn competes full-and-open across its entire federal portfolio.

With technology centers across the US and abroad, Sanborn offers a full suite of photogrammetric mapping and Geographic Information System (GIS)services.