Key Personnel · 36C77626Q0191
Every PWS task has a named owner.
HSG fields a team built for exactly this work: a Certified Job Evaluator on the catalog, an OPM classification specialist on Title 5 and SSR, a Fortune-100 compensation lead on benchmarking, and federal analysts with direct VA engagement experience. One platform owner is the single point of accountability to the Contracting Officer.
7
Core team
principals + senior staff
3
Classification-certified
CJE / OPM FES
5
FLSA-qualified
exemption analysis
2
Prior VA experience
EUL / PFA via Emax
Teaming construct
VA's Vets First preference can set this work aside for veteran-owned firms ahead of 8(a). With Riley McGuire Partners (SDVOSB) on the team, HSG positions to win under either outcome.
At the VA, the Vets First Contracting Program (38 U.S.C. §8127–8128; Kingdomware) makes an SDVOSB/VOSB set-aside mandatory — ahead of 8(a) — whenever the Contracting Officer reasonably expects two or more capable veteran-owned offers at a fair price (the Rule of Two). HSG is an 8(a) SDB but not veteran-owned; Riley McGuire Partners is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. The team is built to win whichever way VA scopes the buy.
House Strategies Group
SBA 8(a) · Small Disadvantaged Business
UEI EAE1MJHMN2Z1 · CAGE 7W4Y5
- ▪All five PWS tasks — compensation benchmarking, classification, survey licensing, job architecture
- ▪Task 4 cloud platform ownership, data governance & FedRAMP-aligned security
- ▪Compensation & classification methodology engine — the analytical core in either lane
VA thread: VA OAEM Enhanced-Use Lease Post-Transaction Support & VHA Lease Administration (via Team RMP/Emax, 2022–present) — site visits, AOCC compliance review, Consideration Report, EULIS platform.
CommittedRiley McGuire Partners
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)
- ▪Veteran-owned (SDVOSB) status that anchors a Vets First / SDVOSB set-aside bid
- ▪Survey-operations, data-collection and VHA stakeholder-coordination capacity
- ▪Standing VHA institutional access and a live VA past-performance thread
VA thread: VA OAEM EUL Post-Transaction Support / VHA Lease Administration (Sol. 36C10F24R0031) — the VHA business HSG's Project Director personally supported.
Proposed teaming partner — SDVOSB certification (SBA VetCert) confirmed at teamingEmax
Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB)
UEI VT5LDB2955P6 · CAGE 1X6J9
- ▪VA/Navy/HUD analytical bench — the route several HSG analysts carry direct VA experience through
- ▪Program-analytics and reporting surge capacity (Congressional-grade deliverables)
- ▪GSA MAS vehicle depth (47QRAA18D0094, 2018–2028)
VA thread: VA EUL post-transaction support & Consideration Report; $35M NAVFAC PPV IDIQ; HUD Program Financial Advisor continuously since 1999.
Contingent — interest confirmation in progressLane A — SDVOSB Joint Venture, RMP managing venturer
Riley McGuire Partners primes as managing venturer of an SDVOSB joint venture; HSG is the JV partner supplying the compensation-analysis engine.
- ▪RMP owns ≥51% of the JV, names the project manager / responsible manager, and controls the venture (13 CFR 128.402).
- ▪RMP self-performs ≥40% of the JV's work — survey identification & licensing, data-collection operations, VHA stakeholder coordination, and Task 4 platform administration.
- ▪HSG performs the compensation, classification, geographic-differential and job-architecture analysis as JV partner.
- ▪The JV (RMP + HSG) self-performs ≥50% of the services cost; Emax's WOSB surge is additive and stays under that cap.
- ▪An SBA Mentor-Protégé agreement can backstop the JV against affiliation if either firm needs the protection.
Lane B — HSG 8(a) prime, RMP & Emax as subs
HSG primes as an SBA 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business and self-performs the analytical core; RMP and Emax subcontract.
- ▪HSG self-performs ≥50% of the cost of contract services (13 CFR 125.6 / FAR 52.219-14).
- ▪HSG owns all five PWS tasks and the Task 4 platform as single point of accountability to PCAC.
- ▪RMP (SDVOSB) subcontracts survey operations and VHA program access, adding veteran-owned participation to the team.
- ▪Emax (WOSB) supplies analytical surge; as a WOSB it is not similarly situated to an 8(a) set-aside, so its hours are additive to HSG's majority.
Same engine, either prime
What stays constant. In either lane the compensation/classification methodology and the Task 4 cloud platform are HSG-built and stay with HSG, and RMP's VHA access and veteran-owned status travel with the team. Only the prime-of-record and the work-share split change.
Decision point. HSG and RMP confirm the structure at RFP, once the set-aside designation is known. This Sources Sought response signals to PCAC that the team can field a compliant SDVOSB joint venture or an 8(a) prime on day one.
- RMP (SDVOSB) managing venturer if VA sets aside SDVOSB; HSG 8(a) prime if open.
- SDV status attaches to the prime / JV — it does not flow up from a subcontractor.
- JV lane: RMP ≥51% ownership, names the PM, performs ≥40% of JV work.
- 8(a) lane: HSG self-performs ≥50%; RMP & Emax are additive subs.
- Comp engine + Task 4 platform stay HSG-built in both lanes.
Jelani House
HSGFounder & Managing Director — Project Director & Task 4 Platform Owner
Washington, DC / Tampa, FL · 17+ yrs
Project Director and Task 4 Platform Owner. Single point of accountability to the VA Contracting Officer and PCAC. Owns scope, schedule, cost, and the cloud analytical platform that runs the 4A–4I pipeline. Personally accountable for data governance, the FedRAMP-aligned security posture, and the audit-lineage commitment (4I).
Raina Cook
HSGSenior Compensation Analyst — Market Benchmarking Lead (Task 2)
Washington, DC · 10+ yrs
Market Benchmarking Lead (Task 2). Owns the survey-to-occupation analysis — blends licensed survey percentiles, ages data to a common effective date, and computes P10–P90, compa-ratio, market index, and range penetration for every VHA occupation. Produces the Occupation Benchmark Sheets and the executive market-position view.
Gilda Weech-House
HSGSenior HR Officer (Ret.) — Job-Architecture Lead (Task 5)
Washington, DC · 25+ yrs
Job-Architecture Lead (Task 5). Owns the versioned occupation catalog — maps each VHA occupation to its pay authority (Title 38 / Hybrid / Title 5), family, level, and benchmark source. Signatory on every crosswalk and grade-band determination, and owner of the AI/Expert Reconciliation Log that makes each mapping auditable.
Michael Nelson
HSGSenior Consultant — Data Operations & Crosswalk Methodology Lead
Chicago, IL / Tampa, FL · 15+ yrs
Data Operations & Crosswalk Lead (Task 4 4C–4D). Owns survey-file reformatting into a common schema (4C) and the confidence-scored job-match engine that maps VHA occupations to benchmark jobs (4D). Designs the validation rules on data ingest (4B) and the reproducibility controls behind every published percentile.
Joel V. Sutherland, MA
HSGClassification & Compliance Analyst — Title 5 / FLSA & SSR Specialist
Washington, DC · 9+ yrs
Title 5 / FLSA & SSR Specialist. Owns the Title 5 (GS) occupation analysis — administrative, IT/informatics, MSA, and patient-support series — and authors the Special Salary Rate (SSR) justification packages for Title 38 Hybrid occupations using ECRI allied-health evidence. Maps OPM occupational series into the job-architecture catalog (Task 5).
Laverne A. Cunningham
HSGSenior HR SME — Survey Licensing, Total Comp & Physician-Pay Panels
Reston, VA · 25+ yrs
Senior HR SME · Survey Licensing & Physician-Pay Panels (Task 1 + Task 2). Owns the survey-license portfolio — procurement, redistribution terms, and the governance that lets the VA use published percentiles internally. Constructs the blended SullivanCotter/MGMA/AMGA physician market-pay panels for §7431 base-plus-market-pay determinations.
Amy Han
HSGAnalyst — Geographic Differentials, QA & Production
Washington, DC · 3+ yrs
Geographic Differentials, QA & Production (Task 3 + delivery). Supports the BLS-anchored geographic-differential build and the per-facility §7451 locality factors, then owns final report production, dashboard preparation, and reconciliation of every illustrative figure against production data pulled at engagement award.
One throat to choke, five tasks covered.
The Project Director is the single point of accountability to the VA Contracting Officer and PCAC — owning scope, schedule, cost, and the Task 4 platform — while each task lead carries the credential the work demands. Allocations shown are illustrative of an engagement-level staffing plan and finalize at award.