The Team · 36C77626Q0191
A veteran-owned prime, an 8(a) platform partner — built for a Veterans First award.
The proposed structure is a prime/subcontract team: Riley McGuire Partners, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, is the prime — the SDVOSB vehicle, program management, survey procurement, and survey operations — and House Strategies Group, an SBA 8(a) firm, is the subcontractor providing the entire Task 4 platform and the classification & compensation specialists. The VA gets a Vets First award and HSG's platform depth in one team.
Proposed structure — RMP prime, HSG subcontractor
The proposed structure is a prime/subcontract team — RMP (SDVOSB) primes and House Strategies Group (8(a)) subcontracts the platform & analytics — so the VA can award under Veterans First and still receive HSG's platform and compensation depth.
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). RMP priming with HSG as subcontractor is built for exactly that award.
Riley McGuire Partners
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) · Prime
Prime contractor — Project Manager of record
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- ▪SDVOSB vehicle — the Veterans First (38 U.S.C. §8127) eligibility for the award
- ▪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 the Vets First award and the §7451 / §7431 survey operations.
Prime — SDVOSB (SBA VetCert); active VA real-property contractsHouse Strategies Group
SBA 8(a) · Small Disadvantaged Business · Subcontractor
Subcontractor — platform & analytics
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- ▪The entire Task 4 cloud platform — build, AWS GovCloud hosting, security / ATO 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 (SBA-compliant)
Riley McGuire Partners (SDVOSB) primes; House Strategies Group (8(a)) is the platform & analytics subcontractor. An SDVOSB joint venture is available as an option if the VA's strategy favors it.
- ▪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% of the cost of personnel, satisfying the limitations on subcontracting (VAAR 852.219-75 / 13 CFR 125.6).
- ▪HSG, as subcontractor, provides the entire Task 4 cloud platform and GovCloud hosting plus the classification & compensation specialists who produce the analytical deliverables.
- ▪The five-year services value is structured to fit the $5M SDVOSB sole-source ceiling (VAAR 819.7008) — preserving a fast, fully compliant Veterans First direct-award path.
- ▪RMP and HSG are also prepared to form an SDVOSB joint venture (13 CFR 128.402, RMP managing venturer) if the VA's acquisition strategy makes that advantageous — same team, same platform, same posture.
If the VA's strategy favors a joint venture
RMP and HSG are prepared to form an SDVOSB joint venture (13 CFR 128.402) with RMP as managing venturer — the same team, the same platform, the same price posture — should the VA's acquisition strategy make that advantageous. And should the acquisition run open or 8(a) instead, HSG remains independently eligible to prime as an SBA 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business with RMP as the SDVOSB subcontractor.
What stays constant. Across every structure the compensation / classification methodology and the Task 4 cloud platform are HSG-built and HSG-hosted; the SDVOSB status, 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 — Veterans First eligible — and names the PM.
- RMP self-performs ≥51% of personnel cost (VAAR 852.219-75 / 13 CFR 125.6).
- HSG (8(a) sub): the entire Task 4 platform + hosting, and the comp / class / job-architecture SMEs.
- RMP: PM, survey-purchase negotiation, data-collection & §7451 facility operations.
- SDVOSB joint venture (13 CFR 128.402) held as an option; 8(a) prime as the open-market fallback.
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, GovCloud 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).
Raina Cook
HSG · SUBSenior 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
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.
Michael Nelson
HSG · SUBSenior 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.
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 (RFI Q3). 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 personnel 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 a VA-VetCert Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business; HSG is an SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business.