Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC

Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC, a foreign-owned, for-profit company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, provides data analytics, open-source intelligence, investigative software platforms, and AI/machine-learning data readiness services to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) across defense, homeland security, and civilian intelligence functions, competing in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations.

Thomson Reuters operates across 25 federal agencies with substantial concentration in two customer buckets separated by magnitude. Immigration and Customs Enforcement anchors volume (13 awards, $61.8 million combined potential value) with recurring contracts for risk mitigation support, maritime analysis tools, and human trafficking data analysis. The Office of the Secretary of Defense dominates dollars—a single $249 million Basic Ordering Agreement with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center for data science, data engineering, and AI data readiness support services represents 61% of the combined potential value across all awards. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (4 awards, $51.1 million) adds material scale through the DOPPLER program ($29.1 million definitive, awarded September 2024) and an $11.48 million ACTUATE contract from Air Force Research Laboratory. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection, the Navy Criminal Investigative Service, and the Department of the Army round out the named top five, with smaller transaction volumes but recurring need for investigative software licenses and risk management support.

Recent capability work is concrete and operationally grounded. For HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, Thomson Reuters holds an $8.02 million definitive contract (awarded September 2025, completion September 2027) for unaccompanied alien children human trafficking data analysis. ICE contracted $4.64 million in risk mitigation support services (awarded September 2023, running through September 2028) for Homeland Security Investigations criminal investigations, with $874 thousand invoiced in fiscal 2024 and all work self-performed. The Air Force contracted $4.2 million for the CRASH PROJECT (awarded August 2023, running through September 2026) and funded a $182 thousand enhanced web-based investigative platform subscription supporting Special Operations Command counter-threat finance activities. Additional contracts cover intelligence analysis for Customs and Border Protection ($1.08 million, completed 2022), maritime and illicit-trade intelligence for ICE ($3.56 million, awarded September 2025, completion September 2027), and investigative software licensing to the Army, Navy, and Air Force ranging from $7,764 to $231,589 per order.

Thomson Reuters holds three major parent vehicles. The largest is a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program administered by the Missile Defense Agency, with a $151 billion ceiling and performance through December 2035; an initial $500 delivery order was issued December 2025. The DOD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Basic Ordering Agreement ceiling sits at $249 million through March 2027. A GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule, contract 47QRAA24D009W) carries a $1 million ceiling through June 2029 and covers business information services with tiered corporate and individual due-diligence reporting and labor categories spanning junior data scientist through subject-matter-expert roles, all requiring a bachelor's degree minimum and no security clearances, at hourly rates from $141.50 to $321.37.

Activity has grown modestly year over year—four prime awards in 2022 rising to eight in 2025—with combined potential value of $410 million across 52 prime and 2 sub awards. Eleven awards (combined potential value $69.6 million) reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $16.6 million across fiscal 2022–2024 ($5.2 million in FY2022, $5.9 million in FY2023, $5.5 million in FY2024), with workforce trajectory rising to 45.4 FTEs in FY2024 from minimal FTE records in prior years. The SCI dataset reflects a strict subset of the vendor's federal services activity: it excludes goods, micro-purchases, classified contracts, and products, and does not represent total enterprise revenue. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 0% of hours through subcontractors, indicating self-delivery posture on that work set. Two subcontracts appear in recent awards: intelligence analysis services under CACI, Inc. Federal (awarded April 2026) supporting ICE Homeland Security Investigations, and subscription and software licenses under HII Mission Technologies Corp (awarded December 2024). The vendor's labor portfolio on the GSA schedule emphasizes data science, analytics, and subject-matter-expert roles at bachelor's and master's degree levels with no clearance requirements, positioning it for civilian data-driven procurement and open-source intelligence work rather than classified defense programs.