# Economic Forecasting Services

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/697dck25r00146

- Solicitation number: 697DCK-25-R-00146
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Awarded to IHS Global Inc.
- Department: Department of Transportation
- Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
- Contracting office: Federal Aviation Administration (n-FEDERALAVIATIONADMINISTRATION)
- NAICS: 513210 Software Publishers
- Product or service code: 7A20 Application development software delivered by perpetual license, consisting of analysis, design, development, code, test and release packages associated with application development projects.
- Place of performance: Washington, District of Columbia
- County: District of Columbia (FIPS 11001). https://abierto.us/counties/district-of-columbia-dc-11001
- City: Washington. https://abierto.us/cities/washington-dc-1150000
- First posted: August 25, 2025
- Last posted: August 25, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2f44cfc35b9d4dc48296be6d8fd2dbd8/view

## Description

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intends to award a single source contract to IHS Global Inc., Inc. located in Englewood, CO. The FAA proposes to acquire economic data to forecast aviation activity and workload for manpower planning, regulatory analysis, and aviation trust fund analysis. The acquisition will utilize single source procedures.

In accordance with the FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) Guidance T3.2.2.4, the purpose of this announcement is to inform industry of the basis of the FAA's decision to contract with a selected source when it is determined to be in the best interest of the FAA. IHS Global Inc. is the only known source capable of meeting the FAA’s Requirements. This announcement is for informational purposes only and is not a Solicitation/Request for Proposal. This requirement will be awarded to IHS Global Inc. and is not available for full and open competition.

**Note:** The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) references cited in SAM.gov are not applicable to the FAA as the FAA has its own policies and guidance referenced in the Acquisition Management System (AMS).

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: IHS Global Inc. (UEI C19ELN62VL28)
- Contract: 697DCK25C00257, definitive contract
- Obligated: $268,191.08
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number 697DCK25R00146 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same sub-agency 6920 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_697DCK25C00257_6920_-NONE-_-NONE-/


## Publications

- August 25, 2025: Special notice, due August 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT. Notice 2f44cfc35b9d4dc48296be6d8fd2dbd8. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2f44cfc35b9d4dc48296be6d8fd2dbd8/view

## Points of contact

- Stephen Young, stephen.young@faa.gov, (404)305-5712

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