The Team · 36C24C26R0004
A service-disabled veteran-owned prime and a working platform partner, on one team.
The proposed structure is a prime/subcontract team: Riley McGuire Partners, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, is the prime, carrying program management, survey procurement, and survey operations, and House Strategies Group is the subcontractor providing the entire Task 4 platform and the classification and compensation specialists. VA gets one accountable prime and a running platform in one team.
Proposed structure — RMP prime, HSG subcontractor
The proposed structure is a prime/subcontract team — RMP, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, primes and House Strategies Group subcontracts the platform & analytics — so VA gets one accountable prime and a working platform in the same team.
RMP performs the majority of the work with its own employees, at least 51 percent of the contract cost as committed in the Veterans Involvement volume, and answers to the Contracting Officer for every deliverable. HSG's platform and specialists work inside that structure: one schedule, one review, one signature on what goes to VA.
Riley McGuire Partners
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) · Prime
Prime contractor — Project Manager of record
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- ▪Service-disabled veteran-owned prime of record — accountable to the Contracting Officer for the whole team
- ▪Program management — names the Project Manager (Neil Riley); owns scope, schedule & cost to PCAC
- ▪Survey-purchase negotiation & procurement — publisher agreements, licensing & redistribution terms
- ▪Data-collection operations & §7451 facility-survey logistics across 152+ facilities
- ▪VHA stakeholder coordination, contract administration, and monthly / quarterly reporting
VA thread: Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned firm with active VA delivery — EUL Post-Transaction Support (36C77624N0371) and ORP Lease Administration (36C10F24R0031); anchors program management and the §7451 / §7431 survey operations.
Prime — SDVOSB (SBA VetCert); active VA real-property contractsHouse Strategies Group
Subcontractor · platform & analytics · SBA 8(a) certified
Subcontractor — platform & analytics
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- ▪The entire Task 4 cloud platform — build, FedRAMP-authorized AWS hosting, security and A&A support, audit lineage
- ▪Classification & compensation staff specialists (the HR / comp / class SMEs)
- ▪Market benchmarking, percentile & compa-ratio analysis (Task 2)
- ▪Job-architecture catalog, crosswalk governance & geographic differentials (Tasks 3 & 5)
- ▪§7431 physician market-pay panels and Special Salary Rate (SSR) justifications
VA thread: Federal classification & compensation practice (USDA APHIS, Exceptional ratings) plus the working Task 4 platform — the analytical capability that differentiates the bid.
Committed subcontractor — teaming agreement in placeWho does what
| Firm | Role | Scope | PWS |
|---|---|---|---|
| RMP | Program Manager (Prime) | Single point of accountability to PCAC; scope, schedule, cost, IMPS, risk & issue management. | Tasks 1, 6, 7 |
| RMP | Survey-Procurement & Licensing Negotiation Lead | Negotiates and purchases the ~50 surveys; publisher agreements; redistribution terms. | Task 1 |
| RMP | Facility-Survey Operations & VHA Coordination | Runs §7451 local labor-market survey logistics across 152+ facilities; comparator outreach & data collection. | Tasks 2, 3 |
| HSG | Platform Owner & Task 4 Engineering (Deputy PM) | Builds and hosts the cloud platform; security / ATO; ingest, analytics, dashboards, audit lineage. | Task 4 |
| HSG | Compensation & Benchmarking SMEs | Percentiles, compa-ratio, market position; §7431 physician panels; total-comp blending. | Task 2 |
| HSG | Classification & Job-Architecture SMEs | Occupation catalog, pay-authority mapping, grade bands, SSR justifications, geographic differentials. | Tasks 3, 5 |
Teaming mechanics
Riley McGuire Partners (SDVOSB) primes; House Strategies Group is the platform & analytics subcontractor under a teaming agreement that fixes roles, work share, and data handling before award.
- ▪RMP is the prime of record and names the Project Manager — Neil Riley — the single point of accountability to PCAC.
- ▪RMP self-performs at least 51 percent of the contract cost with its own employees, as committed in the Veterans Involvement volume.
- ▪HSG, as subcontractor, provides the entire Task 4 cloud platform and its hosting plus the classification & compensation specialists who produce the analytical deliverables.
How two firms deliver as one team
One project schedule, one deliverable review, one accountable Project Manager. HSG's specialists work inside RMP's program management, every deliverable reaches VA under the prime's signature, and the platform is operated for the program as a whole. The Contracting Officer deals with one prime; the evaluation team sees one team.
What stays constant. The compensation / classification methodology and the Task 4 cloud platform are HSG-built and HSG-hosted; program management, survey procurement, and survey operations are RMP's. That division of labor is the team's core strength.
- RMP (SDVOSB) is the prime of record and names the Project Manager.
- RMP self-performs at least 51 percent of the contract cost.
- HSG (subcontractor): the entire Task 4 platform + hosting, and the comp / class / job-architecture SMEs.
- RMP: PM, survey-purchase negotiation, data-collection & §7451 facility operations.
Named team & key personnel
The core team across the prime/subcontract pairing — every named member carries a load-bearing lane: Riley McGuire Partners’ Program Manager (the prime’s point of accountability), the House Strategies Group platform lead, the benchmarking, data-operations, and job-architecture specialists who produce every analytical deliverable, and the physician-compensation subject-matter expert. Each is mapped to the PWS tasks they lead.
Neil B. Riley
RMP · PRIMEManaging Partner, Riley McGuire Partners — Program Manager (Prime)
Washington, DC metro · 15+ yrs
Program Manager (Prime). As Riley McGuire Partners' Managing Partner, Neil is the prime's single point of accountability to PCAC — owning scope, schedule, cost, the IMPS, and risk/issue management (Tasks 1, 6, 7). RMP self-performs the program management, survey-purchase negotiation and procurement, and the §7451 facility-survey operations across 152+ facilities, satisfying the limitations on subcontracting (VAAR 852.219-75 / 13 CFR 125.6).
Jelani House
HSG · SUBFounder & Managing Director, HSG — Deputy Program Manager & Task 4 Platform Lead
Washington, DC / Tampa, FL · 17+ yrs
Deputy Program Manager and owner of the Task 4 cloud platform. Leads House Strategies Group's subcontract scope — the platform, its hosting, and the compensation/classification analytical team — under Riley McGuire Partners' prime program management (Neil Riley, PM). Personally accountable for the platform, data governance, the security posture, and the audit-lineage commitment (4I).
Gilda Weech-House
HSG · SUBSenior 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.
Eric O. Leafgreen, CPA
SMEPhysician & Clinician Compensation SME (Consultant)
Phoenix, AZ · 19+ yrs
Physician & Clinician Compensation SME (consultant) — 19 years in physician compensation and FMV/commercial reasonableness: Director of Physician Compensation at Banner Health (3,000+ providers, ≈$1B/yr under FMV review); advised the independent monitor under a $450M OIG settlement; AAPCP founding board member. Provides §7431 PDPO market-pay expertise — specialty-survey selection and blending (SullivanCotter / MGMA / AMGA), facility compensation-panel methodology, and market-competitiveness review — engaged as-needed, scaled to the task order.
The specialist bench — sized to the task calendar, not carried as overhead
Behind the core team sits HSG’s vetted specialist bench, engaged as the work requires rather than billed as standing staff: Title 5 / special-salary-rate classification specialty (OPM FES, SSR justification packages), geographic QA and report production, survey-licensing and benefits analytics, and surge staffing for the optional conduct-§7451 facility campaign if the VA elects it. The lean core is a pricing decision, not a capability ceiling.
One prime of record. One platform. Every task covered.
As the SDVOSB prime, Riley McGuire Partners names the Project Manager — the single point of accountability to the VA Contracting Officer and PCAC — and self-performs at least 51% of the contract cost. House Strategies Group, as subcontractor, owns and hosts the Task 4 platform and fields the credentialed comp/class specialists behind every deliverable. Work-share and allocations shown are illustrative and finalize at award.
Team composition, certifications, work-share, and engagement allocations are illustrative of a proposed staffing plan and finalize at award. RMP is an SBA VetCert-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business; HSG is an SBA-certified 8(a) small business.