GCS offers a range of specialized consulting services to help organizations maneuver the many complexities inherent to maximizing performance in today’s rapidly changing contracting environment.
Our highly engaged experts have deep roots in the government contracting environment, so we understand the market’s intricacies and speak the language. In addition, we combine our extensive current knowledge with robust capabilities and an efficient methodology to deliver best value as we meet your project objectives.
Regardless of the initiative at hand, GCS ensures full staff buy-in and a streamlined approach with proven best practices. Our performance improvement consulting encompasses:
- Stakeholder Engagement
As an objective and skilled third party, GCS is adept at aligning disparate needs and desired outcomes across the organization to achieve common understanding, objectives, processes, and governance for enterprise programs. We facilitate cross-functional collaboration among appropriate staff in contracting, subcontracting, program management, finance, human resources, IT, the user community, and more. The result is more effective enterprise integration and controls of risk mitigation, budgeting, scheduling, technical issues, compliance, and staffing.
- Business Process Optimization
Combining proven tools and templates with best practices, GCS helps organizations optimize acquisition and contracting processes to achieve significant performance improvements across the enterprise. We start with a thorough review and assessment of people, processes, policies, and infrastructure tools to identify performance gaps. From there, we deliver a comprehensive yet realistic action plan designed to streamline processes and integrate best practices for maximum agility, performance, and compliance. Each analysis compares acquisition and contracting operations against benchmarks, identifies issues, and recommends actions/options to improve efficiency and effectiveness. GCS also helps guide the execution of the recommended process changes.
- Regulatory and Internal Compliance
GCS’ team of policy and acquisition experts maintains a thorough understanding of the complexities around existing and emerging compliance issues. Using our proven repeatable process and a suite of tools, we systematically review hundreds of contract files to determine their compliance with federal and agency regulations and ensure they are in line with current audit trends. We help customers identify specific file weaknesses and common trends across the organization, as well as areas where further policy guidance, remediation, training or improvements to control systems and processes could enhance regulatory and internal compliance.
- Federal Market Entry
GCS helps companies develop and execute a winning strategy for entering the highly competitive federal market. Our thorough assessments analyze relevant market trends and the likely cost structure of competing in targeted federal market sectors as well as potential impacts on the internal infrastructure and processes. The end deliverable is a go-to-market plan that provides a thorough overview of market opportunities and threats as well as recommends market points of entry, optimal service offerings relevant to the customers’ capabilities, potential subcontracting approaches, test pilot approaches, and internal infrastructure changes required for success.
- Audit Readiness
GCS has deep experience assessing, developing, and implementing audit procedures based on best practices to meet the government’s increasingly stringent regulations, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Cost Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) Standards and Concepts, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and A130. GCS subject matter experts can help ensure compliance with ever-changing public laws, regulations, and prime contractual requirements. Combining customized tools and templates with expertise that encompasses pre-audit preparation, mock audits, policy and procedure development and implemenation, process improvements, training, and project management, GCS ensures customers maximize audit readiness.
- Procurement Compliance Consulting
GCS specializes in helping customers mitigate the inherent risks associated with government contracting by providing seasoned experts to prepare and guide them through the DCMA Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) audit. By assessing and optimizing the degree of price competition, pricing policies and techniques, subcontractor responsibilities, compliance with cost accounting standards, and management control systems, we help ensure that contracting and procurement functions are compliant with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
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