Author: Darwin McDaniel|| Date Published: February 13, 2019
Eleven companies have secured blanket purchase agreements from the General Services Administration and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide Earth-observation products, data and services to government customers.
Both agencies awarded the BPAs under the IT Schedule 70 acquisition vehicle and in support of the Commercial Initiative to Buy Operationally Responsive GEOINT, GSA said Tuesday.
CIBORG aims to use GSA schedules and contractual instruments to increase the governments access to geospatial Earth observation offerings from the private sector.
The awardees are:
Carahsoft Technology
DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) company
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business
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