G2X TAKE: DOI and USGS, which serves as the managing partner for the Geospatial Platform Shared Services investments, recently awarded this 5-year multiple-award IDIQ contract to provide the technology and organizational framework necessary to support missions and Administration priorities with timely and accurate geospatial data, geospatial services, geospatial search and spatial analytical capabilities.   Known Awardees at this time include:  Small Business Image Matters  Small Business Xentity Corporation  HUBZone Small Business ArdentMC There were five know bidders for this contract competed on FedConnect as a small business set-aside. A copy of the solicitation can be found here.   The scope of this effort includes services necessary to provide a full range of application, platform and service design, development, and maintenance support, as well as related operational support. This effort will focus on enabling users to search, discover, fuse and use geospatial data products and services to meet complex mission requirements across multiple organizations.