PRACTICE — QUALIFICATION → CAPTURE → DELIVERY

One discipline, four practices.

Most firms hand the federal journey to a chain of specialists who each own one slice — and lose the thread at every handoff. Exprima runs qualification, capture, and delivery as a single continuous engagement, with retained executive leadership holding it all together.

01 · PRE-QUALIFICATION 02 · BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 03 · POST-AWARD OPERATIONS 04 · FRACTIONAL EXECUTIVE
01QUALIFY

Pre-Qualification

The federal market is gated by technical qualifications that take most companies months — sometimes years — to satisfy. We prepare, implement, and capture those qualifications: FedRAMP, SOC 2, and the broader body of federal regulatory requirements that determines whether you are even allowed to compete.

Every engagement runs on ClauseAtlas, our compliance platform purpose-built for government regulation — so clause analysis that takes consultancies weeks happens in minutes, and your compliance posture is tracked in real time rather than rediscovered at audit.

FedRAMP SOC 2 Type I/II NIST 800-171/53 CMMC L2/L3 DoD ATO
WHAT WE DELIVER
  • Gap assessment & roadmap — current posture against the framework that gates your market, with a prioritized, sequenced remediation plan
  • Authorization pathway strategy — FedRAMP route selection, CMMC level determination, and timing decisions made with the endgame in view
  • Documentation & evidence architecture — SSPs, policies, and control evidence built the way assessors actually verify them
  • Assessor coordination — 3PAO and C3PAO engagement, mock assessments, and finding remediation through authorization
  • Continuous monitoring — posture tracked live on ClauseAtlas after the certificate, not rebuilt from scratch each cycle
02CAPTURE

Business Development

Federal capture is relationship-driven, calendar-driven, and unforgiving of missed windows. We run every phase of federal business development — from standing up a government business unit inside a commercial company, to qualifying the pipeline, to full proposal operations when the RFP drops.

This is not advisory-from-a-distance. We build the capture plan, work the relationships alongside your team, and manage proposals through color-team reviews and orals — the same discipline the incumbents use, brought to companies entering the market.

Federal BU build-out Capture management Proposal operations
WHAT WE DELIVER
  • Federal market strategy — where you actually fit: agencies, vehicles, set-asides, and the realistic path from first contract to franchise
  • Government business unit build-out — structure, processes, and hiring plans for a federal arm inside a commercial company
  • Capture management — opportunity qualification, teaming strategy, and customer engagement backed by industry relationships
  • Proposal management — volume writing, compliance matrices, color-team reviews, and oral presentation preparation
  • Pipeline discipline — bid/no-bid rigor so you spend your B&P dollars where you can win
03DELIVER

Post-Award Operations

Winning is the start, not the finish. Post-award compliance failures can unwind everything the first two phases built — and commercial teams routinely underestimate how different delivering for the government is from delivering for enterprise customers.

We keep contract operations compliant, hold service delivery to the standard the government is grading you on, and help your team internalize GovCon culture — deliverable cadences, contracting officer relationships, and the paperwork that protects your contract — without losing commercial momentum.

Compliance ops Service quality GovCon culture
WHAT WE DELIVER
  • Contract compliance operations — flow-down obligations, reporting requirements, and clause-level tracking run on ClauseAtlas
  • Continuous authorization upkeep — ConMon, POA&M management, and re-assessment readiness so qualifications never lapse
  • Service delivery quality — QASP-aligned performance management and the metrics your contracting officer actually reviews
  • GovCon operating rhythm — CDRLs, invoicing discipline, and government-customer communication norms embedded in your team
  • Growth on contract — option-year positioning, CPARS excellence, and past performance you can bid with
04RETAINED

Fractional Executive

Senior security and compliance leadership, embedded a few days a month — for organizations that need executive judgment across all three phases without the cost of a full-time hire.

This is the connective tissue of the whole practice: one retained executive who carries context from qualification through capture into delivery, sits in your leadership meetings, and answers to your board.

Embedded CISO/CIO 2–4 days/month Board reporting
WHAT WE DELIVER
  • Embedded security & compliance leadership — CISO/CIO-level judgment inside your organization, on a fractional footprint
  • Risk management & prioritization — threat modeling, risk quantification, and an investment roadmap aligned to business objectives
  • Vendor & supply chain security — third-party risk assessment and dependency mapping for the standards the government holds you to
  • Board & executive reporting — risk communicated in business terms, with decision support when it counts
  • Phase alignment — one owner making sure qualification, capture, and delivery never drift apart
HOW ENGAGEMENTS RUN

Start anywhere on the route. We map the whole thing.

STEP 1

Strategy call

Thirty minutes to locate you on the route — what you sell, who in government buys it, and which gate is actually in front of you.

STEP 2

Route map & proposal

A concrete plan across the phases that apply to you — scope, sequencing, timeline, and the qualifications and vehicles that gate each step.

STEP 3

Embedded delivery

We work inside your team — project-based for a single gate, or retained across the arc with fractional executive leadership.

Which gate is in front of you?

Start with a 30-minute strategy call. We'll locate you on the route and scope the practice areas that apply.

Schedule a strategy call