Full-Cycle Contract and Grant Solutions
Mitigate Risk:
We ensure your contracts and grants are fully compliant with the regulations.
Win More Contracts:
We develop cost volumes and pricing strategy that maximize your competitiveness.
Know Your Rights:
When the government puts a stop to your work or terminates your award, we are there to ensure you are paid what you are rightfully due
Purchase Smarter:
We lead procurement efforts for contractors, development partners, and government agencies, ensuring compliance with competition, best value, and source selection FAR requirements
Build a Strong Foundation:
We conduct organizational "health" assessments and implement the necessary changes to strengthen your policies, systems and procedures, demonstrating your responsibility to the government.
Team Augmentation:
Even with in-house expertise, being short-staffed can create challenges. Akiri Consulting offers temporary support to seamlessly fill these gaps.
Empower Your Team:
We provide customized training to equip your contractor and government agency staff with essential knowledge in contracts, pricing, and compliance.
Managed Expertise for High-Stakes Federal Awards
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Elite Talent Curation and Management. We recruit, vet, and manage a bench of senior-level subject matter experts, ensuring that Clients have access to proven talent, without the risk or overhead of sourcing them directly.
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Dedicated Account Oversight. We provide a specialized account manager to each Client who serves as a direct advocate, overseeing consultant performance, fielding new Client requests, and scaling our support as needs evolve.
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Investment in High-Level Talent Retention. We only hire consultants with 10+ years of experience. This allows us to maintain a stable, elite team so Clients always have a highly-skilled consultant available, without the worry of losing a freelancer on short notice.
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Comprehensive Risk Mitigation. We provide robust professional liability insurance (Errors & Omissions) up to $1M per occurrence with Clients as additional insured. Our contracts also come with a warranty that the work will be completed according to industry best practices and standards. Anything short of that and we will redo the work at no additional cost.
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Seamless Consultant Replacement. If a consultant is not a fit or is on leave, we act immediately to find a suitable replacement from our roster of dozens of senior-level consultants.
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Low Client-to-Consultant Ratio. We intentionally cap our client load to ensure every project gets the attention it requires. This deliberate under-utilization of our time is a cost we incur so that we are never too busy to give your most complex challenges the focus they deserve.
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Premium Quality Control. We dedicate resources to peer review, gut check regulatory interpretations, and serve as a quality control checkpoint. This approach ensures that consultant guidance and recommendations are right the first time.
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Fast response times. We typically turn around client requests within 24 - 72 hours.
Tell us what brought you here and we will design an approach to support your contracts, compliance, and pricing goals.
Increase Your Wins and Reduce Your Regulatory Risk
Expect the following results when you partner with us:
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More contract wins. We have priced $500M+ in winning government cost proposals and $2.6B in BPA and IDIQ ceilings.
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Access to pre-vetted expertise. Our talent has 10 - 30+ years of experience, including former executives, team leaders, and senior subject matter experts.
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Lowered risk of disallowances. We save our clients countless dollars by ensuring compliance with the FAR cost principles.
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Better subcontract terms. We advocate for our clients by negotiating more favorable terms and conditions.
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Improved reputation and more teaming opportunities for small businesses. We align our clients' policies and systems with prime expectations and agency regulations, thus demonstrating responsibility and capability.
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Reduced Subcontractor risk. We support primes by conducting due diligence on proposed partners to ensure they are operationally and financially capable of performing.
Proven Results, in the Words of Our Clients
Katie Henke, Senior Director of Business Development, The Cadmus Group
“We have worked with at least half a dozen of their consultants and always receive excellent support – they are experienced and have great insights on pricing strategy, international costing, and creative approaches to complicated budgets. Many of them are also very knowledgeable about contracts/compliance issues which is extremely helpful.”
Rebecca Herrington, CEO, Headlight Consulting Services LLC
"Akiri's cost volume assistance, from compiling complex budget spreadsheets to helping with pricing and thinking through fees and rates as a small business, enabled Headlight to succeed when we were too small to have full-time help in business development efforts and flourish as we grew...We would have never been able to submit a compliant cost volume to win our first prime contract without Akiri."
Ben Fowler, CEO, MarketShare Associates
"Before working with Akiri, our biggest challenge was being able to effectively understand and navigate USAID and FAR regulations. Akiri helped us to approach those issues with confidence. We have found Akiri’s consultants to be friendly, extremely knowledgeable, and very responsive."
