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Our Mission is twofold:
• To assist qualified businesses through Consultative and Training services that enhance their ability to successfully traverse the hurdles of Government contracting, while assisting in expedient income generation, and,
• To assist Government Agencies in their Technical, Educational and Administrative needs.
Our Mission is achieved when businesses and government come
together.
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GI2 was established in 2003 with an objective to assist qualified companies enter and/or expand their government contracts and opportunities to include DOD and the Intelligence Community. Through the years, we have successfully assisted companies penetrate these markets either through our Business Development, Consulting Services, and Security Programs divisions.
To enhance GI2’s capabilities, we have carefully selected Affiliate Companies who provide synergistic support and expertise to our Clients. Further, we have a wealth of expert consultants experienced in all aspects of government contracting.
Management:
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Liz Rivas-Fowles, President/CEO, of GI2 brings 23 plus years experience in Organizational Development, Strategic Marketing and Business Development, Financial Management, and Program & Contract Management. Starting her career at AT&T, Liz’s experience base includes Product Management & Development delivering voice/data solutions to commercial markets from inception through product life cycle management. She further expanded her scope in Federal Government marketing initially with AT&T’s Federal Systems Group were her responsibilities in Program Management yielded a solid background in Bid & Proposals, Strategic Pricing and overall Contract Management. In 1990, Liz founded her own Telecom Company and managed it through many successes. Growing the company from grass roots to a profitable small business, Liz establish market presence through quality performance and a steady customer based of commercial and federal contracts winning various awards including the Corporate Excellence Award from Fairfax County for several years. She expanded the business’ core competency from a cabling company to IT services, and successfully exiting the market in 2001. Since then, Liz worked in various consulting capacities to assist small and mid-sized businesses establish and achieve growth objectives. Her background and experience as a hands-on entrepreneur provides significant value to companies that seek to expand their market presence while maintaining and/or improving internal operational standards.
Alliances:
GI2 carefully selects its Affiliates to provide synergistic expertise and enhanced value to our Clients. The following quality and performance-oriented companies represent our current group of affiliate companies:
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Guest Consulting Group, LLC has extensive experience consulting with diverse businesses in the areas of strategic planning and business development; process innovation utilizing Six Sigma methodology; and the provision of customer value added products and services as a means of creating competitive differentiation.
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Contracting Resources Group (CRG) is a business development firm that specializes in the US government procurement process. Their results-oriented team creates federal and state business development programs for small to mid-size companies interested in selling their products and services using the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule and its associated applications. CRG also provides detailed training in all aspects of the GSA Schedule.
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Contracts Unlimited, Inc. specializes in the preparation of proposals, and the formation and administration of commercial and government contracts for both large and small businesses. Our areas of expertise cover international software development work, software licenses, commercial sales contracts, employment agreements, GSA Schedules, Government cost-plus, T&M or firm fixed price contracts and subcontracts. We also have been very successful in negotiating contracts, preparing confidentiality agreements, and administering and interpreting such agreements for our clients.
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Consultants:
Joe Dickey retired from the National Security Agency (NSA) and has 36 years of Federal, US Air Force (USAF) and civilian security experience, directing and implementing programs within the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and industry, from domestic and international perspectives. His comprehensive background in antiterrorism, physical, industrial and Special Programs security include decision-making positions as the Chief, Technical Security and Headquarters Facilities Security during the largest growth period in NSA’s history and the Gulf War. As a USAF Office of Special Investigations and Federal Special Agent, he has significant experience in counterintelligence, counter narcotics and polygraph. His varied experience as a federal subject matter expert includes physical security, industrial security and antiterrorism. As the NSA Antiterrorism Program Manager, Joe was responsible for the design and implementation of the Perimeter Security Antiterrorism (PSAT) Program at NSA headquarters, Ft. George G. Meade, MD. In this capacity, Joe successfully implemented the program, the largest security enhancement in NSA’s history, which included establishing interagency working groups within the Intelligence community to address contemporary domestic and foreign threats and implement world-class solutions in a pre-9/11/01 security environment. Joe’s diverse background as a security expert has made him instrumental in establishing operational procedures relating to domestic and international security, most of which are in use today.
Proposal Management Support Services:
GI2 has had extensive experience in developing, managing, and submitting timely winning proposals in the past 20+ years. Our proposal management resources consist of:
- Experienced Proposal Managers with hands-on experience managing large government procurement efforts in excess of $60 billion;
- Technical personnel with hands-on experience in developing responses for all areas of technology, as well as, expertise in Civilian and DoD deployments;
- Strategic marketing to assist with competitive analysis and identifying teaming partners;
- Strategic pricing capable of assisting in competitive analysis models as well as developing pricing models for bid submission;
- Contracts and Government compliance experts with over 20 years experience in Federal Government contracting;
- Experienced Managers in all aspects of Security;
- Project coordinators and graphics/desktop personnel; and a
- Recruiting source for qualified resources
GI2 Proposal Management consultants are hands-on managers who have been there, done that in all aspects of government contracting and proposal management. Because we are and have been in the trenches of proposal preparation, we understand the process and we understand the importance of working as a Team with companies' personnel, thus delivering winning proposals. For the most part, the personnel we provide are consultants we have worked with in the trenches and we know their capabilities. To that end, GI2 exceeds the traditional Proposal Management companies who merely provide placement services while charging a significant mark-up for the talent they place.
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