Cost Analysis & Acquisition Support
The Cost Analysis and Acquisition Support (CAAS) service area is a cornerstone of mission-critical program success, delivering trusted expertise, data-driven insights, and robust tools to provide realistic and defensible analyses to our customers for over 40 years. Our culture fosters critical thinking, proactivity, camaraderie, and dedication to personal, professional, and organizational growth.
By combining analytical rigor with in-depth program knowledge, CAAS Analysts serve as trusted advisors, guiding decisionmakers through resource-oriented programmatic challenges. We avoid static, black-box models, choosing instead to research and analyze program history, anticipate future requirements, normalize collected data to meet customer-defined needs, and refine our custom models, delivering accurate and timely estimates.
In a dynamic acquisition landscape, CAAS transforms traditional cost analysis by providing technically excellent, high-value results faster. Our proactive and efficient methodology ensures acquisition support that drives program success.
Cost Analysis
Our approach to cost analysis integrates data, methods, and models to dynamically address resourcing challenges. Our team — comprised of Engineers, Operations Research Analysts, Statisticians, Economists, Mathematicians, and Business Analysts — delves into the complexities of system dynamics and engineering technologies, understanding the driving requirements of a system before conducting quantitative analysis. Whether we are providing direct program office support, independent portfolio oversight, or cost research, this blend of technical expertise and data-driven methodologies enables a superior level of support.
- Commodity centric estimating expertise
- Cost Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) implementation
- Cost analysis requirements description (CARD) development
- Life cycle cost estimating and modeling
- Cost and schedule risk analysis and assessments
- Operations and support analysis
- Cost estimating training
Acquisition Support
Integrated with our cost analysis offerings is our team’s dedicated acquisition support service, designed to navigate the policies, processes, and resources essential for procuring complex systems. Our acquisition support is critical for organizations seeking to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and optimize procurement processes through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
Our team is trained and experienced in diverse acquisition strategies across various agencies and recent changes to the government acquisition landscape, such as middle tier acquisitions, major capability acquisitions, and the software acquisition pathway within the Adaptive Acquisition Framework across the Department of Defense, as well as the Acquisition Lifecycle Framework across the Department of Homeland Security.
By applying an analytical approach, our acquisition support focuses on enhancing process efficiencies to drive prompt and successful program acquisitions, whether the focus be on efficiently incorporating stakeholder comments on requirements and proposal documents; delivering an adaptable, dynamic model supporting rapid proposal analysis or negotiations; or transitioning a program from contract award to execution via data-driven baseline reviews and risk identification.
- Acquisition planning support
- Market research/analysis
- Procurement request development
- Source selection support
- Contract management support