Government Services
Contracts/Grants Management
- Register company in System for Award Management (SAM)
- Register company in grants.gov
- Register company in Wide Area Work Flow system for electronic funds payments
- Review solicitations and advise company on compliance requirements
- Prepare budget/cost proposal estimates (entire business section of proposals)
- Review contract/grant awards and negotiate price/fee and terms and conditions
- Write/negotiate subcontracts, consulting agreements and cooperative agreements (ensure proper flow-down of Government contract/grant requirements)
- Coordinate rights to intellectual property; ensure compliance and protection for inventor
- Review non-disclosure agreements
- Assure interim and final reporting of invention disclosures for contractors/subcontractors
- Prepare and negotiate draft license agreements for attorney review and liaison during patent process
- Set up and administer Government Property Management System
- Negotiate memorandum of understanding, teaming agreements and various partner agreements
- Prepare written policies for the company as required by contract/grant
- Contract/grant closeout
Proposal Preparation/Management
- Opportunity Identification:
- Create and Identify opportunities
- Build relationships and identify early adopters and stakeholders
- Proposal Requirements Alignment
- Interpretation/review of solicitations to ensure preparation of a proposal consistent with the requirements of the solicitation
- Assistance with proposal work breakdown structure
- Proposal Preparation Assistance
- Writing/editing text/technical, administrative and pricing volumes
- Red Team Review
- Proposal Terms & Conditions (ground rules and assumptions)
- Statement of Work
- Commercialization report
- Estimating/pricing
- Prepare budget narratives/justification
- Forward pricing rates
- Coordinate collaborators and support letters
- Commercial Feasibility Studies
- Proposal/Project Management Assistance
- Coordinate proposal kick off meeting
- Prepare proposal preparation plan/schedule
- Coordinate/facilitate strategy sessions
- Coordinate documents
Government Accounting/Financial Analysis
- Coordinate/Set up an acceptable Government Accounting system with a custom set up of your QuickBooks Pro data file
- Liaison with Defense Contract Audit Agency and other Government auditing agencies
- Establish/assist with indirect/direct rates, forward pricing rate agreements, and verify that accounting system is compliant
- Continuous monitor/forecast of indirect rates
- Monitor expenditure levels and assure appropriate reporting to Government
- Submit monthly vouchers to the Government and invoices to commercial entities
- Prepare/assist with the annual incurred cost proposal (as required by contract)
- Prepare/assist with closeouts to ensure your business is not excluded from future contracting opportunities
We provide assistance in preparing of financial statements including bookkeeping & reconciling services.
Government Services
We provide step-by-step guidance in government procurement from finding proposals to bid (including seeking federal research & development funding) and selling goods and services through contract/grant close-out. Symington customers are entrepreneurs, inventors, small to medium size businesses and public agencies.
Services include:
- Commercial Feasibility Studies/Innovations
- Assistance with finding grants/contracts to bid
- All areas of proposal preparation, we specialize in SBIR/STTR and GSA proposals
- Contract/Grant award review
- Contract/Grant administration; including preparation of consulting and subcontract agreements,
- Government accounting and billing, (WAWF billing, Setting up Government approved accounting systems, preparing incurred cost proposals
- Government property management
- Intellectual property (IP) management (understanding rights to IP while working under a grant/contract)
- Contract/Grant closeout.
Specialties: Government proposals preparation, contract and agreement negotiation, training and workshop presentations on all of the above services.