Chaedrol’s federal solutions are unified by our competency-based approach to talent management and proprietary knowledge base inclusive of primary and secondary source materials, templates and checklists optimized for reuse, and lessons learned across Chaedrol engagements.

Acquisition

Chaedrol provides bench strength or specialized expertise to help federal contracting shops meet their programs’ requirements. This includes full life cycle support or focused solutions targeting any phase of the contracting life cycle, such as preaward, postaward, closeouts, or financial analysis. Chaedrol’s program management framework mitigates schedule risk through both deliberate and just-in-time planning.

Program Management

Chaedrol helps programs to define and manage their requirements and acquisition approaches independent of contracting shops. Through our comprehensive approach to acquisition package development, we help programs maximize the benefits of the contracting process while avoiding unnecessary delays. We stand up program management processes, reporting, and organizations, and help execute strategic programs.

Information & Technology

Chaedrol assists agencies in leveraging technology to more efficiently and effectively deliver value and achieve objectives. From product assessments, to pilot-study acquisition design, to architecture, engineering, and program management, Chaedrol helps agencies navigate IT governance, an ever-changing market, and the acquisition life cycle to harness IT innovation, including cloud, AI, and RPA.

Evidence of Chaedrol’s thinking across these domains

• In memory of William R. MacKaye
  The few people who care often wonder why I do what I do, because it…
• Chaedrol’s experience securing SBA approval for 8(a) disadvantage statement
  SBA is now asking 8(a) businesses to provide their disadvantage statements via Certify, launching a gold-rush of spam-quality “consultants” who have never written an approved disadvantage statement pushing their wares for a healthy fee. Chaedrol's statement was recently approved. Here's our experience.
• A contractor cries foul at the Court of Federal Claims: bad faith on a canceled procurement (now with AI comparison)
  A government contractor alleges bad faith on the part of the government over a canceled lease for the IRS.
• GEO Group loses appeal over monthly ramp-down pricing dispute with Bureau of Prisons (AI)
  This case, CBCA 7168, involves an appeal by the contractor, The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO),…
• Protest over Buy American Act waiver highlights importance of thorough market research (AI)
  Recently, Unico Mechanical Corporation protested the award of a contract to McMillen, LLC, by the…
• Understanding corrective action in bid protests: lessons from American Tech Solutions (AI)
  The protest was filed by American Tech Solutions, LLC, against the Department of the Air…
• GAO dismisses American Tech Solutions protest as academic following agency’s corrective action (AI)
  American Tech Solutions, LLC filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) challenging the…