NAVTEQ was awarded a $10,893,729 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for global transportation, public venues and points of interest geospatial data layers. NGA has standardized on NAVTEQ data previously, so this appears to be just a renewal of the contract. I wasn’t aware of the dollar figure before this latest announcement.
UPDATE: I originally linked to the NGA contract with NAVTEQ that’s summarized here. Turns out that the contract is for TRANSCOM, with details outlined here.
The following passage still serves to explain why with was a sole source contact:
“Data testing and analysis was performed by NGA Office of Americas. After their research is was determined that NAVTEQ was the best source for this code. As such, NGA has standardized on NAVTEQ data the Transportation Layer Road Network provider. As such, all systems like IRRIS that must interact with NGA systems such as Palanterra must use the NAVTEQ data so that data will remain aligned and the applications will remain tightly integrated.”
