Planning a contract or program often begins months and years before contract award. Our group of acquisition professionals understand the upfront planning required to create a formal acquisition strategy and plan. Acquisition plans should be created by benchmarking industry and other metrics already present in the department. Our experts pride themselves in innovative solutions backed by technical cost and schedule professionals to keep the strategy honest.

Markon technical procurement experts have extensive experience preparing the full gamut of procurement actions from RFIs and source selections, to RFPs and SOWs, to pure contract specialist duties needed to administer the contract through award. Many of our experts additionally have experience on the program side of contracts to help decipher acquisition strategy and either performance or prescriptive scope writing. Our professional staff understand the best way to positively impact contract performance is both the proper contract/scope and resultant vendor selection.

Once a contract is awarded, our contract management professionals are expertly trained in contract compliance, contract communications, vendor audits and evaluations, and contract specialist administration. Many of our experts have been government contracting officers (COs) or trained as contracting officer technical representatives (COTRs). This provides special advantages to our clients as we have been in their seat at one time or another. The administration of an active contract requires a heads up mentality that sets a path for success to all contract participants. This includes a detailed contract kick off meeting to lay out requirements and common pitfalls, but also to show a partnering spirit with vendors and project staff alike. Diligent record keeping is an absolute as is formal milestone notifications along the way.

Markon senior policy staff has unparalleled expertise in FAR and Supplemental FAR Updates, OFPP, GAO, OIG and Congressional Response, Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA), Warrant Management Policy, and A-123 Acquisition Reviews. Our experts work hand-and-hand with clients to map and execute extremely complex policy and compliance work that requires adherence to new legislation, partnership with the Executive, and support through public communications and comment periods.