Work
The case studies on this page are work Sivad Enterprises was hired to perform, for a senior technical contributor moving into an executive role, a commercial technology company entering the federal market, a space electronics supplier, an aerospace machining supplier, and a contract manufacturer carrying a much larger commercial contract than it had built before. Each one is described by what the client faced, what the consultants on it built, and what was handed over. Clients are described by type rather than by name, which is the working default in defense and government contracting, and where one gives written permission to be named we will say so here.
Focus areas covered below: leadership development, government pricing, supply chain and procurement, training and compliance, and proposal support.
Client case studies
Leadership development
Coaching a senior technical contributor into a VP role
A senior technical contributor consulted constantly, promoted rarely, and not on the list for the roles they actually wanted. Executive coaching, résumé review, and interview preparation, and a step into a VP seat in a different field.
Government pricing
Pricing a commercial product for a federal buyer
A commercial technology company with a product a federal agency wanted, and no rate structure a contracting officer could evaluate. A multi-year labor category rate card, a fixed-price justification, and answers to the government’s pricing questions.
Supply chain and procurement
Turning a raw bill of materials into a buying plan
A contract manufacturer with a much larger commercial contract, thousands of BOM lines, and no plan for which of them to buy first. Supplier consolidation, an immediate-buy list, reorder point logic, and U.S.-first sourcing recommendations.
Training and compliance
Training a machining supplier on rated orders
Defense purchase orders arrive with priority ratings attached, and a rating is a legal obligation with a clock on it. DPAS training built around the client’s own workflow, plus the material sourcing analysis behind a live build.
Proposal support
Cost support inside a live bid cycle
A space electronics supplier working a program proposal and a prime’s subcontract at the same time, with the cost volumes due and the technical team already committed. Capped, dated, and finished when the bids were.
Method notes from the operating record
The two notes below describe classes of problem the firm is built to solve and the method applied to them, drawn from defense and human spaceflight programs where that method was built.
They are set out here because they are useful if you want to see how we think about a problem; the five case studies above are the evidence that clients have hired us to do it.
Taking multi-year lead times out of a human spaceflight supply chain
Supply chain and procurement
Restructuring a subcontract team and negotiating the follow-on phase
Proposal support
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